Dambudzo Marechera

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Dambudzo Marechera (born June 4, 1952 in Vengere Township, Rusape , Rhodesia ; † August 18, 1987 in Harare , Zimbabwe ; born Tambudzai Marechera ) was a Zimbabwean writer and poet who wrote in English .

Life

Dambudzo Marechera was born Tambudzai Marechera and was baptized Charles William Marechera in 1965 in Anglican . He grew up in miserable conditions in a black ghetto and lost his father at the age of 13. After attending the St. Augustine Mission School in Penhalonga , he received a scholarship to the University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe ), where he studied literature from 1972 . Because of his participation in the anti-colonial movement, he had to leave the university in 1973. With another scholarship, he was able to continue studying at New College (Oxford) from 1974 , but was forcibly de-registered in 1976 because of his difficult personality . Dambudzo Marechera then lived, supported by friends, as an unemployed freelance writer without a permanent residence in London .

With his first collection of short stories , The House of Hunger (published in 1978), in which he describes his youth in Rhodesia and experiences as an African in Great Britain , he received a literary prize from The Guardian newspaper . Another story Black Sunlight followed in 1980 , after which his manuscripts were often rejected by publishers.

In 1982 Dambudzo Marechera returned to the meanwhile independent Zimbabwe, but was unable to cope with the new political conditions under Robert Mugabe . At first he lived on the street or with friends until he got his own apartment in Harare in 1984. In 1987 he was diagnosed with AIDS . He died of pneumonia on August 18, 1987 in the Zimbabwean capital.

Flora Veit-Wild and others published findable stories, short stories and poems by Dambudzo Marechera in the 1990s.

Works

  • The House of Hunger . Heinemann, London 1978; that. with subtitle A Novella & Short Stories . Pantheon, New York 1979 (and others)
    • House of hunger. Stories (from the English by Claus Peter Dressler ...). Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1981 (Edition Suhrkamp; 1062 = NF, 62) ISBN 3-518-11062-4
  • Black Sunlight . Heinemann, London 1980 (African writers series; 237)
  • Mind blast; or, The Definite Buddy (plays, prose, poetry, diary entries). College Press, Harare 1984
  • The Black Insider . Edited by Flora Veit-Wild. Baobab Books, Harare 1990, and Lawrence & Wishart, London 1992
    • Black Insider (from the English by Beate Horlemann. With the preface to the English edition by Flora Veit-Wild). Horlemann- Verlag, Unkel 1993, ISBN 3-927905-65-8
Posthumously

literature

  • Al Imfeld : Kafka in the ruins of Zimbabwe , in: ders .: Vision and weapon. African authors, subjects, traditions . Unionsverlag , Zurich 1981, pp. 337–348 (with photo by Dambudzo Marechera on p. 241) ISBN 3-293-00025-8
  • Richard Cohen: MARECHERA, Dambudzo 1952-1987 , in: Contemporary Authors . Gale, Detroit 1999, pp. 236–239 (with extensive bibliographical references)
  • Flora Veit-Wild: Dambudzo Marechera , in: Critical Lexicon for Contemporary Foreign Language Literature , 37th edition, 1995
  • Flora Veit-Wild: Dambudzo Marechera , in: Bernth Lindfors (ed.): Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black African Writers , Ser. 3. Gale, Detroit 1996, pp. 181-191 (Ser. Dictionary of Literary Biography ), ISBN 0-8103-9352-2
  • T.Brü. [Thomas Brückner]: House of Hunger , in: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon Volume 22 Supplement L - Z. Kindler, Munich 1998, pp. 104-105
  • Anthony Chennels, Flora Veit-Wild (Ed.): Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera . Africa World Press, Trenton NJ 1999, ISBN 0-86543-644-4 (hardback), ISBN 0-86543-645-2 (paperback)
  • Annie Gagiano: Achebe , Head , Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa . Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder / London 2000 (Marechera pp. 201–275; “A Three Continents Book” ) ISBN 0-89410-887-5
  • Pierre Leroux: Le prêtre, le traître et le rebelle. Figure christique et messianisme dans les ouvres de Dambudzo Marechera et Tchicaya U Tam'si. Scientific publishing house Trier 2019. ISBN 978-3-86821-808-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AJ Chenells, Flora Veit-Wild: Emerging perspectives on dambudzo marechera. Africa World Press, Trenton NJ 1999, ISBN 0865436452 , p. 177. Excerpts from books.google.de
  2. ^ Obituary of Mr Dambudzo Marechera , in: The Times , London, August 20, 1987.
  3. ^ Joseph Lelyveld: Out of Africa , in: New York Times , November 11, 1979, BR4
  4. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 219 of September 22, 1990, p. 11 (review).
  5. ↑ Heribert Seifert: Hell in the head. “The skin of time” by Dambudzu [!] Marechera , in Die Tageszeitung of November 3, 1989, p. 16 (review).
  6. ↑ The Black Death. Dambudzo Marecheras "Black Insider" , in: NZZ No. 271 of November 19, 1994, p. 99 (Swiss edition), that. On November 20, 1994, p. 47 (international edition).
personal data
SURNAME Marechera, Dambudzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marechera, Tambudzai (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vengere Township, Rusape , Rhodesia
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1987
Place of death Harare , Zimbabwe