Edith Bruck

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Edith Bruck (born Edith Steinschreiber on May 3, 1932 in Tiszabercel , Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County , Hungary ) is a Hungarian - Italian writer , poet and film director .

Life

Bruck, born into a Jewish family with many children, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as an adolescent in 1944 , was liberated in Bergen-Belsen , had an abortion at the age of fifteen and emigrated to Israel at the age of 16, now married. When she was twenty years old, her third marriage ended in divorce. In 1954 she went to Italy , where she later received citizenship. There she was and still is connected by a long private and artistic relationship with director Nelo Risi .

In 1959 her first of numerous novels , volumes of short stories and poems appeared in the Italian language . She also worked as a writer for newspapers such as Il Tempo , Corriere della Sera and Il Messaggero . In 1966 she wrote the screenplay for Andremo in città , a film by her husband. In 1979 she directed her first feature film herself; 1986 followed a direction for television. She had already worked on a script two years earlier.

In her writings she often deals with her childhood and the Holocaust . Her works have been awarded several prizes.

Works (selection)

Books

  • 1961: Who loves you so ...
  • 1965: Mr. Goldberg
  • 1988: Lettera alla madre (Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice)
  • 2009: Quanta stella c'è nel cielo ( Premio Viareggio )
  • 2010: Privato (Premio Europeo di Narrativa)

Movies

  • 1966: We're going to town (Andremo in città) (screenplay)
  • 1979: Improvviso (director, screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Budapest is often given as the place of birth, but given other sources this cannot be correct.
  2. ↑ http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/BIOS/A0082.html
  3. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 75
personal data
SURNAME Bruck, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinschreiber, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Italian writer, poet and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiszabercel , Hungary