Dimitré Dinev
Dimitré Dinev (* 1968 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria ) is a writer , playwright and screenwriter in German.
Life
He made his Matura in 1987 at the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium in Pazardschik . In 1990 he fled across the “ Green Border ” to Austria, where he spent the following years doing odd jobs and studying philosophy and Russian philology in Vienna . Dimitré Dinev is married and lives as a freelance writer in Vienna. In 2003 he obtained Austrian citizenship.
Since 1991 he has been writing scripts, stories, plays and essays in German. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with his family novel Engelszungen , which was received with great interest across Europe. Works by Dimitré Dinev have now been translated into fifteen languages.
In 2016 he and fifteen other authors were selected by an expert jury for the publication SchreibArt AUSTRIA , a literary program of the cultural section of the Foreign Ministry, which , within the framework of Austrian foreign cultural policy , is intended to contribute to today's Austria in the world as one country is perceived with a lot of remarkable literary output. (Sebastian Kurz, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.)
Works
Movie selection
- Spain , feature film, screenplay with Anja Salomonowitz for her first feature film, Dor-Film, Vienna 2011; World premiere Berlinale 2012
theatre
- Russenhuhn UA 1999 WUK, Vienna
- Haut und Himmel UA 2006 Rabenhof, Vienna
- The Judge's House UA 2007 Akademietheater, Vienna
- A tricky thing, the soul (comedy), UA 2008 Volkstheater, Vienna
- The rats by Gerhart Hauptmann - arrangement for the Volkstheater by Dimitré Dinev, premiere 2010, Vienna
- Topalovic & Sons (Balkan operetta, composer: Nebojsa Krulanovic), Premiere 2014 Theater an der Rott, Eggenfelden
- Alice in Wonderland (reworking of the material), World Premiere 2015 Melk Summer Games
- Whatever works (satirical music theater), UA 2015 Wien Modern
Books
- The inscription (stories), Edition Exil, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-901899-13-8
- Engelszungen (Roman), Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-216-30705-0 (licensed editions and btb paperback 2006; Bulgarian edition 2006, Macedonian edition 2007, Turkish edition 2008, Swedish edition 2011)
- Ein Licht über dem Kopf (stories), Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-552-06000-6 (licensed edition “Innsbruck reads” 2006; btb paperback 2007; Romanian edition; Norwegian edition);
- Mercy (essays, Burgtheater speech), Residenzverlag, St. Pölten 2010, ISBN 978-3-70173147-3
Contributions - selection
- Boshidar (short story), in: fremdland, Edition Exil, Vienna 2000
- A light over one's head (short story), in: Hallo Taxi, Andiamo Verlag , Mannheim 2001
- Alternating baths (short story), in: Lichtungen, Akademie Graz 2002, as well as in the Viennese “Volltext” and in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” No. 223, Sept. 2004
- The child with the umbrella (a literary protocol), in: Tandem, Mandelbaum Verlag 2006
- Der Regen (short story), in: The other next door: An anthology from southeast Europe, ed. by Richard Swartz, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007
- The birthday child (short story), in: Festival of Lights, Shadow Games, ed. by Péter Esterházy , DTV 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-13828-4
- Ion (short story), in: limitless. a literarily committed europabrevier, ed. by Klaus Servene , Andiamo Verlag, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-936625-18-9
- Spas sleeps (short story), in: Vienna Tales, ed. by Helen Constantine, translated into English by Deborah Holmes, Oxford University Press 2014, ISBN 9780199669790
Editions
- exceed limits. a europe reading book (short stories; with the city of Mannheim, Klaus Servene and Sudabeh Mohafez ), Andiamo Verlag , Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-936625-11-0
- Circus Bulgaria: Stories for a Cigarette Length by Dejan Enev (from the Bulg. By Katrin Zemmrich and Norbert Randow; selected and with an afterword by Dimitré Dinev), Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-552-06071-5
Awards
- 1992: Large screenplay funding from the Austrian Federal Office for Film (Austrian Film Funding Fund)
- 2000: Literature Prize "Writing Between Cultures" from edition-exil, Vienna
- 2001: 1st prize literature competition Andiamo Verlag and Kulturamt Mannheim
- 2002: Literature Prize of the Graz Academy 1st Prize in the Satire Competition
- 2002: Mannheim Literature Prize
- 2003: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
- 2004: At the invitation of the "Bundesstiftung" scholarship holder in "Schloss Wiepersdorf"
- 2004: Prize of the German Business Culture Association
- 2004: Book of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor for angel tongues
- 2005: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize from the Robert Bosch Foundation
- 2007: Askeer (Bulgarian "Theater Oskar") for "Skin and Heaven"
- 2008: "Poets guest" with Orhan Pamuk at the Salzburg Festival
- 2011/12: Writer in Residence of the one world foundation in Sri Lanka
- 2012: George Saiko - Travel Grant
- 2013: Elias Canetti grant from the City of Vienna
- 2014: Dimitré Dinev receives the Robert Musil Scholarship (2014-2017) from the Federal Chancellery of Austria (Federal Ministry for Education, Education and Culture)
- 2016: Max Kade Scholarship Lafayette College Easton, USA: https://maxkade.lafayette.edu/2016/04/01/dimitre-dinev/
literature
- Dimitré Dinev , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 46/2008 of November 11, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
- Arriving: Conversations with Dimitré Dinev, Anna Kim, Radek Knapp, Julyia Rabinowich and Michael Stavaric Hardcover - September 24, 2014 by Brigitte Schwens-Harrant
- Raluca Rădulescu: The foreign as a meeting place. Studies on German-speaking Southeast European authors with a migration background. Constance: Hartung-Gorre 2013.
- Raluca Rădulescu: Lazarus must not come out. Dimitré Dinev's unhealthy world in the short story volume “A light above one's head”. In: Journal of Germanists in Romania, Bucureşti, 1-2 (39-40) / 2011, pp. 219–232.
- Raluca Rădulescu: “We are all just guests on this earth”. Strangeness and familiarity in Dimitré Dinev's work. In: Interactions II. German-language literature and culture in a regional and international context. Pécs Studies in German Studies Volume 6. Ed. Zoltán Szendi, Praesens, Vienna, 2012, pp. 107–117.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dimitré Dinev in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile Dimitré Dinev at Hanser Verlag
- Sessler Theater-Verlag
- www.welt.de
- Voices on Dimitré Dinev at Andiamo
- Literaturhaus Vienna
- Summer Games Melk 2015
- Dimitré Dinev with Senta Berger and Maria Köpf in the International Jury Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award 2015
- writeART Austria 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dinev, Dimitré |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer of Bulgarian origin |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Plovdiv |