Dana Ranga

Dana Ranga (* 1964 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian writer . She lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Dana Ranga first studied medicine at the University of Bucharest , later she moved to Berlin to the Free University , where she studied journalism, art history and film theory.

Her first film, East Side Story (1997), won an award at the Marseille Film Festival in 1998 and was shown in cinemas and television worldwide. The documentary Story (2003) about the astronaut Story Musgrave received awards at the film festivals in Marseille (2003), Leipzig (2003) and Houston (2004). Then Dana Ranga produced Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007), a portrait of the record holder Valeri Polyakov , which was awarded as the best documentary film in Sao Paulo. In 2009 came Oh, Adam , a film about the folklore of dying in a Romanian village. I am in Space (2012), a film about psychology and weightlessness, in which personal video recordings by the French ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy are shown, closes the space trilogy.

Dana Ranga wrote two radio plays ( Das Auge der Supernova , WDR 2002 and Herz, Kopf, Zahl , WDR 2005), translated poetry and prose from Romanian and English into German and published her own texts in magazines ( Sinn und Form , manuscripts , accents , die hear, among other things). In 2011 Dana Ranga's volume of poetry Wasserbuch was published and in 2016 the stories Hauthaus were published by Suhrkamp Verlag .

Books

• Calendar (lyrics). Stop - Over Press Berlin 1993.
• Maybe or no (lyric). Stop - Over Press Berlin 2001.
• Olympic Love Games (lyric). Instagram 2003/2019.
• Stop - din pauzele lui Sisif (poetry). Cluj, Romania, Editura Limes 2005.
• Water book (poetry). Suhrkamp 2011.
• Hauthaus (poetry). Suhrkamp 2016.

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Akzente, "Ophthalmos", magazine for literature, Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012
• BerlIjn, Terras § 04, "Kardia", Netherlands 2013
• manuscripts 200, "Enteron", (Alfred Kolleritsch, Günter Waldorf, eds.), Graz 2013
• Grazer Beislballaden (Andrea Stift, Wolfgang Kühnelt, ed.), "Odysseus ...", Leykam, Graz 2013
• Guernica, magazine of art & politics. Annual volume 2, "exodus paradoxus", Monika Cassel, New York 2015.
• Anja Bayer , Daniela Seel (Ed.): All of this here, Majesty, is yours - poetry in the Anthropocene. kookbooks Berlin 2016.
• Asymptote, "Waterbook", Monika Cassel, Taipei City 2017
• Spiegelungen, "Idealized Heimat", issue 2.17, Munich 2017
• Sense and Form, Poems, "Cosmos!", January / February, first issue, Berlin 2018
• Yearbook of Poetry 2018, Ch.Buchwald, N.Bleutge Hrsg., 4th chapter. "Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko", Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt a. M., 2018
• manuscripts 220, "Cosmos!" (9 poems: "Astronaut Michael Foale", "Cosmonaut Thomas Reiter", "Superstition" etc.), Graz 2018
• "Cinema", lyric anthology, Wolfgang Schiffer and Dincer Gücyeter (eds.), Elif Verlag 2019

Audio book

• "My Bucharest", Iordan Chimet , Maia Morgenstern , Mihai Oroveanu, Alexandru Beldiman, Wolfgang Koch, DLR, 1995
• "The Music Films of DEFA", Hans Heinrich , Gerd Natschinski , Erich Gusko , Helmut Hanke , Joachim Hasler , Gottfried Kolditz , DLR, 1996
• "Moldova-Moldova", Ion Stoica, Alexandru Bogdan, Svetlana Popa, Marin Delev, Suzana Popescu, DLR, 1998
• "What upset Bela's world", Julius H. Schoeps , Henryk Broder , Bela Lukacs, WDR-Kultur, 1998
• "A sky full of holes", Mircea Cartarescu , Ioan Es. Pop, Ioana Nicolae, Iordan Chimet , Simona Popescu, Caius Dobrescu , DLR, 1999
• "The eye of a supernova", Dana Ranga, WDR 2002, Deutschlandfunk 2003, Hessischer Rundfunk 2004, Deutschlandfunk 2009
• "Word and Universe", Elke Erb , Story Musgrave , Donna Stonecipher , Jan Faktor , Heinz Ickstadt , DLR 2004, DLR 2020
• "Search for the lost reality", ILCaragiale, Mihai Eminescu , Iordan Chimet , Oskar Pastior , Mircea Dinescu , DLR, 2005
• "Heart, head, number", Dana Ranga, WDR 2005, Hessischer Rundfunk 2006, NDR 2008, WDR 2019
• "The girl with a thousand wrinkles -" Nora Iuga ", Nora Iuga , Ernest Wichner , Joachim Sartorius , DLR, 2007
• "Bread and Poetry", Björn Kuhligk , Tom Bresemann, Jan Weinert, Juliane Liebert, DLR, 2011

Awards

• Scholarship holder of the Berlin Artists Program 2008
• Poetry debut of the year at the Haus für Poesie Berlin, "Wasserbuch", 2012
• Nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize , "Water Book", 2012
• City clerk of Graz 2012/2013.
• Adelbert von Chamisso Prize , 2014
• Peter Suhrkamp Foundation, work grant 2014
• Nominated for the Horst Bingel Prize for Literature , "Hauthaus", 2018

Web links

• Dana Ranga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Article in the film magazine Manifest
• Article in Die Zeit
• Dana Ranga
• Information on the volume of poems "Wasserbuch" and the stories "Hauthaus" near Suhrkamp