Eugène Meiltz

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Eugène Meiltz , pseudonym : Eugène (born July 15, 1969 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian writer who lives in Switzerland.

Life

Eugène Meiltz's parents emigrated from Romania in 1975. He and his brother stayed with the grandmother in Bucharest until the parents were able to come to her in 1976.

Meilz grew up in Lausanne francophone, studied literature at the University of Lausanne and then worked as a freelance journalist under the stage name Eugène for Radio Suisse Romande and for the daily newspaper Le Nouveau Quotidien . He teaches creative writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel . Eugène was President of the Swiss Writers' Association (AdS) between 2000 and 2002 .

Eugène wrote five plays, for which he found world premieres in Lausanne, Pully and Mézières . He wrote a travel guide for Pamukkale and some children's books. After the stories Quinze mètres de gloire and L'ouvre-boîtes , he published the autobiographical novel La vallée de la jeunesse in 2007 , for which he received the “Prix des auditeurs de la RSR”. In 2014 the novel was translated into German.

Works (selection)

  • La vallée de la jeunesse . Joie de lire, 2007
    • An incredible country or the twenty things of my childhood . From the Franz. By Tatjana Michaelis. Zurich: Nagel & Kimche, 2014
  • with D. Franck: Grands amours chez les petits-vivant . Ed. Humus, 2004
  • Les mises en boîtes . Genève: La joie de Lire, 2004
  • Pamukalie, pays fabuleux: guide d'un pays surréel . Ed. Autrement, 2003
  • Mange moons . Vevey: Aire, 2000
  • La mort à vivre . Illustrations by Bertola. Genève: La joie de Lire, 1999
  • Lili and the world of amber . Illustrations by Bertola. Expo, Neuchâtel, 2001 (Expo2)
  • Mon nom . Vevey: Aire, 1998
  • L'ouvre-boîtes . Vevey: Aire, 1996
  • Dorothy . Genève: La joie de Lire, 1996
  • Quinze mètres de gloire . Vevey: Aire, 1995
theatre
  • Le dé à une face , premiered: Lausanne, 1995
  • Dorothy , first performed: Lausanne, 1996
  • Portraits de famille , premiered: Lausanne, 1996
  • Cent pas et la passerelle , first performed: Pully, 1997
  • A l`ouest des légends , premiered: Mézières, 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanne Sturzenegger: Eugène's memorabilia from her old and new homeland , on Swiss radio and television , May 2, 2014
  2. ^ Entry about Eugène in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
  3. ↑ Volker Breidecker Lebensbegleiter , review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 10, 2014, p. 13
  4. ↑ Pierre-Alain Bertola (1956-2012) , biography with Bertola
personal data
SURNAME Meilz, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eugène (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th July 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest