Etel Adnan

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Etel Adnan (2008)

Etel Adnan (born February 24, 1925 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese writer and painter.

Life

Etel Adnan is the daughter of a Greek and a Syrian who was an officer in the Ottoman army in Smyrna and grew up in an Arabic-speaking environment with Greek and Turkish mother tongues. In the then French-controlled Lebanon , she attended the French Catholic girls' school, and her first literary language was French. Later she also wrote in the English language. In the linguistic conflict, she found another form of expression in abstract painting.

Adnan left school at sixteen and worked as an assistant in the French army . Her office manager was Jean Gaulmier , who made it possible for her to take the baccalaureate on the side . In 1945 she began studying literature with Gabriel Bounoure at the newly founded “École Supérieure des Lettres de Beyrouth”, where Georges Schehadé was also active, worked as a teacher and then went to Paris in 1949 to study at the Sorbonne , where she received her first degree in philosophy. She continued her studies in 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University and then taught humanities and philosophy at the Dominican University of California in San Rafael . She was invited to other American colleges as a guest lecturer.

After seventeen years she returned to Lebanon in 1972 to work as a feature editor for the French-language newspapers Al Safa and L'Orient-Le Jour , but had to leave the country again because of the civil war in 1976. She went to Paris, where she published her anti-war novel Sitt Marie Rose in 1978 , in which she took up the fate of her friend who was murdered by the Kata'ib . From France she went back to California , where she settled in Sausalito . In the early 1980s she was involved in the libretto of Robert Wilson's opera The CIVIL warS . She then wrote a number of plays. The piece Sometime in the Night had its German premiere in 2013 at the Karlsruhe State Theater .

In 2009, the radio play Schiff im Sturm Berg Mond Meer was broadcast for the first time on Deutschlandradio Kultur - Etel Adnan's Travels through Life and Countries (author: Klaudia Ruschkowski , director: Jean-Claude Kuner) . In 2013, the radio play Etel Adnan - Arabian Apocalypse , realized by Ulrike Brinkmann and Klaudia Ruschkowski, with the composition by 48nord , also followed on Deutschlandradio Kultur . In 2014, RBB, NDR and Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcast the jointly produced radio feature by Jean Claude Kuner Express Beirut - The Writer Etel Adnan .

Awards

  • 1977: Prix France-Pays Arabes for the novel Sitt Marie Rose
  • 2010: Arab American Book Award for Master of the Eclipse
  • 2013: California Book Award for Sea and Fog poetry collection
  • 2013: Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Poetry category for the collection of poems Sea and Fog
  • 2014: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres , Order of the French Ministry of Culture

She also received the RAWI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Radius of Arab-American Writers .

Exhibitions

  • In 2012 Adnan was invited to dOCUMENTA (13) , where, in addition to her contribution to the Documenta book, she received a retrospective . 87 works by Adnan, two wallpapers, a book and her first film were shown there.
  • 2013: Etel Adnan , Galleria continua , San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy.
  • 2014/15: Etel Adnan. Mountains write , Museum der Moderne Salzburg
  • 2015 Galerie Lelong Paris
  • 2015 Lelong Gallery, New York.
  • 2015: Etel Adnan - La joie de vivre , Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich.
  • 2018: Etel Adnan , Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern.

bibliography

  • We became cosmic . Edited by Joshua Groß and Moritz Müller-Schwefe in collaboration with the Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg. starfruit publications, Fürth 2019 ISBN 978-3-922895-36-7
  • Night. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3960540229
  • Speaking of the fin de l'Empire Ottoman. Lelong Gallery, 2015.
  • Le Prix que nous ne voulons pas payer pour l'amour. Lelong Gallery, Paris 2015.
  • Prémonition. Lelong Gallery, Paris 2015.
  • Conversations with my soul. Edited and translated from English by Klaudia Ruschkowski, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89401-815-3 .
  • Arab apocalypse. Translated from the French by Ulrike Stoltz, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42276-2 .
  • Seasons. Edited and translated from English by Klaudia Ruschkowski, Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-753-8 .
  • The cost for love we are not willing to pay . Translated by Christel Dormagen, 100 notes - 100 thoughts ; No. 006; Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2855-3 .
  • The Lord of Darkness: Tales. From the English by Christel Dormagen, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42073-7 (with pictures and an afterword by the artist).
  • The German miracle. In: Theater der Zeit , Issue 7/8, 2009, pp. 174–177 ISSN  0040-5418
  • Trip to Mount Tamalpais. Translated from English and with an afterword by Klaudia Ruschkowski, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89401-572-5 .
  • Of women and cities. Translated from English and with an afterword by Klaudia Ruschkowski, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89401-477-6 .
  • In the heart of the heart of another country. From the English by Christel Dormagen, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41649-9 .
  • The sun melts on the tongue (= printed matter NF Volume 7), edited by Wolfgang Storch on behalf of the International Heiner Müller Society, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89401-450-4 .
  • Thinking of Einar. In: Einar Schleef: Arbeitsbuch. Theater der Zeit: Arbeitsbuch 11, 2002, ISBN 3-934344-12-7 , p. 170.
  • Paris, Paris. From the English by Nicolaus Bornhorn, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-39484-3 .
  • Gavin Bryars (composer): The Adnan songbook: for soprano and ensemble. Schott, Mainz 1996.
  • Sitt Marie-Rose, a Lebanese story. with an autobiographical afterword. From the French by Eva Moldenhauer, cover motif Etel Adnan. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-38051-6 .

Radio plays

literature

  • Lisa Suhair Majaj, Amal Amireh (Ed.): Etel Adnan: critical essays on the Arab-American writer and artist. McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1072-8 . (English)
  • Karin Lüdi: Torn between two worlds: Arab-American poetry: ethnicity in “The Beirut-Hell-Express” by Etel Adnan. Licensing thesis . University of Bern , 2003, OCLC 603826666 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Etel Adnan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Etel Adnan: Growing up in Lebanon, becoming a writer, lecture 1986, as an afterword to Sitt Marie-Rose. Pp. 97–123, from the Amerik. Hans-Ulrich Müller-Schwefe
  2. ↑ Gabriel Bounoure, see French-language Wikipedia fr: Gabriel Bounoure
  3. ↑ spielzeit13-14.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de
  4. ↑ Etel Adnan , accessed July 19, 2018.
  5. ^ 2010 Arab American Book Award Winners , accessed July 19, 2018
  6. ↑ California Book Awards ( Memento from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Etel Adnan Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Agenda Culturel , accessed on July 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ Etel Adnan at documenta
  9. ↑ 100 days, 100 notes, 100 thoughts. In: The Daily Star . Lebanon, April 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ museumdermoderne.at
  11. ↑ The glow of the future. In: FAZ . November 17, 2014, p. 13.
  12. ↑ galerie-lelong.com
personal data
SURNAME Adnan, Etel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese-American artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut