Dževad Karahasan

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Dževad Karahasan during a discussion event in the "MELEZ" train of RUHR.2010

Dževad Karahasan (born January 25, 1953 in Duvno , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian writer, playwright, essayist , dramaturge and literary scholar.

Life

Born to Muslim parents in Duvno (today Tomislavgrad ) in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina, he received his first formative education from Franciscan Fathers . He studied literature and theater studies in Sarajevo , and received his doctorate from the University of Zagreb .

In 1993 Karahasan fled the embattled city of Sarajevo , which plays a central role in parts of his work.

From 1986 to 1993 Karahasan was a lecturer in dramaturgy and history of drama at the Academy for Scenic Arts at the University of Sarajevo , and since 1993 he has been a visiting lecturer at various European universities, including Salzburg , Berlin and Göttingen . In 2009 Karahasan was Siegfried Unseld Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Karahasan has been working as a dramaturge and dramatist for ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater since 1993 . His plays have been performed in Austria (Vienna, Krems, Hallein, Eisenstadt, Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt), Germany (Gera, Erfurt, Berlin, Leipzig), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Ukraine (Odessa), the Czech Republic (Prague, Hradec Králové, Brno), Kosovo (Prishtina), Poland ( Szczecin ), Singapore ( Singapore Arts Festival ) and USA (Washington DC).

In addition to his books, Karahasan published numerous articles in various European magazines, was also a dramaturge at the National Theater in Sarajevo and city ​​clerk of Graz . In 2013 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Karahasan lives and works in Graz and Sarajevo.

Prices

Publications

Prose and essays:

  • "The Eastern Divan", Wieser 1993
  • "Diary of the resettlement", Wieser 1993
  • "Royal Legends", Galrev 1996
  • "Citizens Handke, Serbenvolk" in "The Poet's Fear of Reality", Steidl 1996
  • "Whether Faust should be saved?" In "Freedom.Equality. Brotherhood.", Bregenz Festival 1996
  • "The Geography of Shadows", course book No. 126, Rowohlt Berlin 1996
  • "Schahrijars Ring", Rowohlt 1997
  • “Forms of Life” (on theater work together with Herbert Gantschacher ), edition selene 1999
  • “The questions about the calendar” edition selene 1999
  • Sara and Serafina , Roman (original title: Sara i Serafina. , Translated by Barbara Antkowiak ), Rowohlt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87134-409-5 ; as paperback: suhrkamp taschenbuch 4521, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46521-9
  • “The Book of Gardens”, Insel 2002
  • “Poetics of the Border” (together with Markus Jaroschka), Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft 2003
  • The nightly advice . Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-458-17291-8 .
  • Reports from the dark world . Island 2007.
  • The shadows of cities , essays, from the Bosnian by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber, Insel, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-17451-6 .
  • The consolation of the night sky , novel, from the Bosnian by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42531-2 .
  • A house for the tired , five stories, translated from Bosnian by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42833-7 .

Theater texts:

  • "Al-Mukaffa", Wieser 1994
  • "Povuceni Andjeo / The raptured angel", ARBOS 1995
  • “The concert of the birds” edition selene 1997
  • "Banquet" clearings 2005

Theatre:

  • “The Wheel of St. Catherine”, first performed in Sarajevo 1990
  • "Al-Mukaffa", world premiere in Vienna 1994 at the Akzent Theater by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “The song of the fools of Europe” Literary installation of a libretto together with Herbert Gantschacher, first performance in 1994 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “Povuceni Andjeo” premiered in 1995 at the Danube Festival in Krems by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “The Concert of the Birds” premiered in 1997 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “The Atlas of Sensation” premiered in 1999 in Frankfurt an der Oder
  • “Babylon or the journey of the beautiful jutte” premiered in 1999 at the European Cultural Center in Erfurt by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “The Strangers” premiered in 2001 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “UROBOS: Project Time” together with Herbert Gantschacher, world premiere in 2001 at the Singapore Arts Festival by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “Snow and Death” (arranged for the stage by Herbert Gantschacher) World premiere in 2002 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “On the edge of the desert” premiered in 2003 in the neuebuehnevillach by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “An old oriental fable” premiered in 2004 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “The one and the other” world premiere in 2005 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “Gastmahl” first performance in 2005 in the neuebuehnevillach by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “The Maps of Shadows” premiered in Austrian Sign Language 2011 by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • “Principle Gabriel” premiered in 2014 in the Wiener Schauspielhaus by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater

Classic edits:

  • Woyzeck ” drama fragment by Georg Büchner, first performance in 1999 National Theater Sarajevo, Austrian first performance in 2007 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater
  • " The Death of Empedocles " Fragments of a tragedy by Friedrich Hölderlin edited by Dževad Karahasan (idea) and Herbert Gantschacher (dramaturgy) with music by Viktor Ullmann and Wolfgang Danzmayr , world premiere in 2005 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater

Radio plays:

CDs:

  • "Al-Mukaffa" ARBOS 1996
  • "The song of the fools of Europe" ORF ARBOS 1998
  • "UROBOS: Project Time" Singapore Arts Festival 2001
  • "Gastmahl" recording studio Weikert ARBOS 2006

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mediterranean Alpenmix - "Graz personally" with writer Dževad Karahasan . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on May 11, 2020]).
  2. Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
  3. University of Basel: Honorary PhDs in the Philosophical and Historical Faculty.Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  4. http://static.kulturserver-graz.at/kultur/pdfs/jury_karahasan.pdf
  5. Goethe Prize: Commitment to Understanding . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 11, 2020]).
  6. Goethe Prize to Dževad Karahasan , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on May 7, 2020.
  7. https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kultur/4146457/Theater-zum-Fuehlen-und-Begreifen
  8. Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vilenica.si