Dževad Karahasan
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
- 1981: Veselin Masleša Prize, Sarajevo
- 1990: Yugoslav Novel Prize, Sisak 1990
- 1991: Literature Prize of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, 1991
- 1994: Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon (European Essay Prize Charles Veillon), Lausanne
- 1995: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (main prize) for the diary of the resettlement
- 1999: Herder Prize , Vienna
- 2004: Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding
- 2010: “Vilenica Prize” from the Slovenian Writers' Union, Vilenica
- 2012: Honorary gift from the Heinrich Heine Society , Düsseldorf
- 2012: Goethe Medal from the Goethe Institute , Weimar
- 2014: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Basel
- 2017: Franz Nabl Prize , Graz
- 2019: Jeanette Schocken Prize , Bremerhaven
- 2020: Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main
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:
- "Al-Mukaffa" ORF 1994
- "The Entrückte Engel" ORF 1995 (Director: Herbert Gantschacher )
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
- Miranda Jakiša: Bosnian texts. Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Dževad Karahasan . Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57715-8 .
- Lothar Müller: The absent contemporary witness . Laudation, February 17, 2012 (PDF)
- Jana Unuk: The 2010 Vilenica Prize Winner Dževad Karahasan . Vilenica 2010, ISBN 978-961-6547-50-5
- Dževad Karahasan , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/2008 from April 29, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Renate Hansen-Kokoruš: Dževad Karahasan , in: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Foreign Language Literature (KLfG), in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Gabriela Vojvoda Space and Identity Constructions in Karasahan's Storytelling - The third space as a negotiating instance for a Bosnian cultural identity with an excursus on theater work with Herbert Gantschacher in the footsteps of Viktor Ullmann and Gavrilo Princip , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12737-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Dževad Karahasan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview in the context of the online magazine Novinki
- Bosnian narrator Dzevad Karahasan "... that the other makes us possible" , portrait of the writer by Cornelia Jentzsch, Deutschlandradio Kultur, from January 9, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mediterranean Alpenmix - "Graz personally" with writer Dževad Karahasan . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on May 11, 2020]).
- ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
- ↑ University of Basel: Honorary PhDs in the Philosophical and Historical Faculty.Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ↑ http://static.kulturserver-graz.at/kultur/pdfs/jury_karahasan.pdf
- ↑ Goethe Prize: Commitment to Understanding . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 11, 2020]).
- ↑ Goethe Prize to Dževad Karahasan , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on May 7, 2020.
- ↑ https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kultur/4146457/Theater-zum-Fuehlen-und-Begreifen
- ↑ 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.
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SURNAME | Karahasan, Dževad |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian writer and dramaturge |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duvno , Bosnia-Herzegovina |