Eleni Torossi

Eleni Torossi (born April 7, 1947 in Athens ; married Eleni Torossi-Brinkmann ) is a German writer . She became known both as a writer and through radio contributions .

Life

Torossi left her homeland during the military dictatorship and has lived in Munich since 1968. There she studied political science at the School of Politics . She began to write for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1971 and wrote reports and cultural contributions.

She was best known for her radio plays for children. She writes stories for children and adolescents on the topics of "Living abroad" and "Living with strangers". Her first novel, Dance of the Squids , was published in 1986.

Eleni Torossi writes both in German and in Greek and in 2006 with the Civis - Europe's Media Prize for Integration of ARD been excellent. On May 5, 2009 she was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her services in the context of intercultural mediation .

Awards and honors

• 1986 1st prize in the writing competition at the University of Trier
• 1996 Literature grant from the City of Munich for the design of the children's novel Gangster, Dollars und Koyoten
• 1996 3rd prize in the writing competition of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk
• 1999 Honorary Award of the Greek Children's Book Circle in Athens for the book: Elephants and Buttonholes in Greek
• 2006 Civis - Europe's media prize for integration of ARD
• 2009 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Works

Books in German:

• Dance of the octopuses. New Malik Verlag 1986; Rowohlt 1989; Engl & Lämmel Verlag Holzkirchen 1998, 128 pages, ISBN 3-9804072-8-4
• Paganini's dream. Fairy tales and fables. New Malik Verlag 1988; Engl & Lämmel Verlag 1998; Holzkirchen, 136 pp., ISBN 3-9804072-7-6
• The paper ships. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 1990, ISBN 3-923313-66-7
• Gangsters, dollars and coyotes. Engl & Lämmel Verlag, Holzkirchen 1999, 168 pages, ISBN 3-9804072-9-2 .
• Small words, big words - Eleni Torossi in conversation with contemporary Greek authors. Romiosini, Cologne 2001, 249 pages, ISBN 3-929889-58-7
• Magic formulas, stories. Bilingual, Romiosini, Cologne 1998, 97 pages, ISBN 3-923728-67-0
• Why Aunt Iphigenia is giving me a cook: Stories from my Greek family. LangenMüller, Munich 2009, 160 pages, ISBN 3-784431-96-8
• When I showed you what the world sounds like LangenMüller, Munich 2014, 269 pages, ISBN 978-3-7844-3356-1

Books in Greek:

• To óniro tou Paganini (Paganini's Dream). Exandas Athens 1993, 134 pp., ISBN 960-256-145-9
• Koumpótripes ke eléfantes (buttonholes and elephants). Patakis, Athens 1998, 94 pp., ISBN 960-600-588-7
• O Melánios Trechantíras taxithévi (Melanios Trechantiras on a journey). Patakis, A-then 2001, 116 pp., ISBN 960-378-972-0
• To théndro me ta kechrimbária (The Amber Tree ). Kastor, Athens 2001, ISBN 960-7906-30-6
• To violi tou Paganini (Paganini's violin). Kastor, Athens 2002, ISBN 960-7906-47-0
• The ballad of the oranges. Exandas, Athens 2003, ISBN 960-256-530-6
• A fish in cocoa. Patakis 2009, ISBN 978-960-16-3316-9
• Julchen and Romeo. Patakis 2010

Editing

• Hands-free on the tandem. Literary texts by 30 women from 11 countries. Neuer Malik Verlag, Kiel 1985, 160 pages, ISBN 3-89029-155-4
• Encounters that give hope. With Anetta Kahane , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1993, 222 pages, ISBN 3-451-04236-3

Individual evidence

1. ^ Engl & Lämmel Verlag: Reading against xenophobia. ( Memento of February 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ EllasNet, the magazine of the Greeks: Federal Cross of Merit for Greek writer. ( Memento from June 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).

Web links

• official page
• Literature by and about Eleni Torossi in the catalog of the German National Library
• The long shadow of my mother / documentary / 45 min / life lines / Bavarian television 2014 ( memento from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )