Danilo Kiš

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Danilo Kiš ( Serbian - Cyrillic Данило Киш ; born February 22, 1935 in Subotica , † October 15, 1989 in Paris ) was a Yugoslavian writer.

Life

Kiš was the son of a Montenegrin woman and a Hungarian Jew. He first grew up in Vojvodina . After the father escaped the Novi Sad massacre by chance in January 1942 , the family fled to relatives on the paternal side in the outskirts of Zalaegerszeg . Kiš, who had been baptized as a precaution by his parents in 1939 and who had already started school in Serbian, attended the Hungarian school there. However, like most of the Jewish relatives, the father was not to escape deportation to the extermination camp; he too "disappeared" in Auschwitz . After the Second World War , the remaining family was repatriated by the Red Cross , and Kiš came with his mother and sister to an uncle in Cetinje ( Montenegro ), where he graduated from high school.

From 1954 Kiš studied comparative literature at the University of Belgrade , in 1958 he graduated with a diploma. In 1962 his first two works, Mansarda, appeared: satirična poema ( The Attic Chamber ) and Psalm 44 .

Kiš then worked in Belgrade and Novi Sad as a translator from Hungarian , French and Russian . In addition, he became a Serbo-Croatian lecturer in France and began a commuter life.

In 1973 he received the Yugoslav literature prize Ninova Nagrada (German NIN price) for his 1972 novel Peščanik (German hourglass , 1983), which was named after Bašta, pepeo (1965; German garden, ash, 1981) and Rani jadi: za decu i osetljive (1970; dt. early suffering , 1989) forms the conclusion of the trilogy ironically titled “family circus ” about the childhood world and the “disappeared” father. However, Kiš gave this price back in protest when the cultural bureaucracy in 1978 responded to his anti-Stalinist story cycle Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča. Sedam poglavlja jedne zajedničke povesti (1976; Eng . A tomb for Boris Dawidowitsch. Seven chapters of one and the same story , 1983) responded with a politically motivated plagiarism campaign. In the novel Čas anatomije (1978; German anatomy lesson , 1998) , Kiš also dealt with his critics in literary form. In 1979 he settled permanently in France, but remained in possession of the Yugoslav passport.

For his last completed work, the volume of short stories Enciklopedija mrtvih (1983; Encyclopedia of the Dead , 1986), he received the Ivo Andrić Prize . In 1988, Kiš was elected Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1980 he had already been awarded the Grand aigle d'Or de la Ville de Nice for his oeuvre , followed in 1986 by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in the Chevalier class , and in 1989 by the Bruno Schulz Prize of the PEN America.

A partially revised new edition of Danilo Kiš's central narrative works in German translation was provided by Ilma Rakusa in 2014 , who also translated several of his works into German.

Works (selection)

  • Mansarda: satirična poema, 1962
  • Psalam 44, 1962
    • German Psalm 44 . Translated by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber. Carl Hanser, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26394-9 .
  • Bašta, pepeo, 1965
  • Rani jadi: za decu i osetljive, 1970
  • Peščanik, 1972
  • Po-etika, 1972
  • Po-etika, knjiga druga, 1974
  • Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča: sedam poglavlja jedne zajedničke povesti, 1976.
    • dt. A tomb for Boris Dawidowitsch: seven chapters of one and the same story . Translated by Ilma Rakusa. Carl Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24223-4 .
  • Čas anatomije, 1978
    • German anatomy lesson . Translated by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber. Carl Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-446-19489-2 .
  • Noć i magla, 1983
  • Homo poeticus, 1983
  • Enciklopedija mrtvih, 1983
  • Gorki talog iskustva, 1990
  • Život, literatura, 1990
  • Pesme i prepevi, 1992
  • Lauta i ožiljci, 1994
  • Skladište, 1995
  • Varia, 1995
  • Pesme, Elektra, 1995

New edition in German

  • Family circus. The great novels and short stories. Ed. And with an afterword by Ilma Rakusa. Hanser, Munich 2014.

literature

  • Mark Thompson: Birth Certificate. The Story of Danilo Kiš . Cornell University Press, Ithaca / London 2013, ISBN 978-0-8014-4888-1
    • German: birth certificate. The story of Danilo Kiš. Translated from the English by Brigitte Döbert and Blanka Stipetits. Hanser-Verlag, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-446-24727-7 .

Web links

Commons : Danilo Kiš  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiš also used the literary metaphor of the father's “disappearance” in journalistic remarks. See e.g. B. “Life, Literature” (1986), in: Danilo Kiš. Homo poeticus. Conversations and Essays , ed. by Ilma Rakusa. Munich, Vienna 1994, pp. 11–34, here p. 20.
  2. ↑ Information from http://www.danilokis.org/index1.html . Retrieved April 22, 2017
  3. ↑ Recording of the posthumous awarding of the Bruno Schulz Prize on June 22, 1990. Retrieved on April 22, 2017
  4. ↑ On this also: Böttiger, Helmut in the “Book of the Week” (Deutschlandfunk) of November 23, 2014. Accessed on April 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kiš, Danilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Данило Киш
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Subotica
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1989
Place of death Paris