Eugene Ruge

Eugen Ruge 2014 in Saint Emilion, France

Eugen Ruge (born June 24, 1954 in Soswa , Sverdlovsk Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a German writer , director and translator from Russian. In 2011, he won the German Book Prize for his novel In Zeiten des Falling Lichts .

Life

Eugen Ruge is the son of the GDR historian Wolfgang Ruge , who was deported to the Siberian camp 239 by the Soviet rulers ; his mother is Russian. Eugen Ruge came to East Berlin with his parents when he was two years old . After studying mathematics and successfully graduating from the Humboldt University in Berlin , he became a research assistant at the Central Institute for Earth Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

In 1986 Ruge began working as a writer, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. In 1988 he moved to the Federal Republic.

Since 1989 he has worked mainly as a writer for theater, funk and film. In addition to his translations of several Chekhov plays and writing for documentaries and theater plays, he held a visiting professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2011 he made his debut as a novelist with the title In times of waning light , for which he received the German Book Prize.

Ruge is the father of four children and lives in Berlin and on Rügen .

Works

Anthologies

• TEMPERAMENTS Sheets for young literature; Issue 4/1988, Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin, ISBN 3-355-00753-6 .

Plays

• Excluded from exchange. (Premiere 1990, Schauspiel Bonn ; Direction: Anselm Weber )
• Residual heat. (Premiere 1992, Schauspiel Leipzig ; Director: Eugen Ruge)
• Disturbance of the peace. (Premiere 1998, Rampe Stuttgart; Director: Agnese Grieco)
• The general writes a letter and shoots his girlfriend. (Premiere 2001, Rampe Stuttgart, director: Eva Hosemann).
• Böhme files. (Premiere 2001 Schauspiel Leipzig; Director: Andreas Dresen )
• Labyrinth. (World premiere 2011 Theater an der Linde Weinstadt; Director: Michael Speer )
• In times of waning light . (Premiere 2013 Deutsches Theater Berlin ; directed by Stephan Kimmig )

All of Eugen Ruge's stage texts have been published by Merlin Verlag .

• Attempt on a language that is dying out , Dresden speech at the Schauspielhaus Dresden on February 25, 2018

Books

• In times of waning light . A family novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-05786-2 ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 24 to November 20, 2011 ).
• as editor (together with Wladislaw Hedeler ): Wolfgang Ruge : Lenin: predecessor of Stalin. A political biography. Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88221-541-0 .
• as editor: Wolfgang Ruge (father of Eugen): Promised Land: My years in Stalin's Soviet Union. Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-05791-6 .
• Cabo de Gata. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-05795-4 .
• Approximation. Travel reports. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-05800-5 .
• Plays. 1986-2008. Anthology. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-05801-2 .
• Follower - Fourteen sentences about a fictional grandson. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-05805-0 .
• Metropol . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-00123-0 .

Radio plays

• Excluded from exchange. (RB 1992; Director: Gottfried von Eine )
• Residual heat. (ORB 1993; Director: Barbara Plensat )
• Just like that. (SDR / ORB 1993; Director: Günther Rücker )
• Half and half. (ORB 1996; Director: Jürgen Dluzniewski)
• Disturbance of the peace - a seizure. (SDR 1997; Director: Peter Brasch )
• Böhme dies in Neustrelitz. (SFB-ORB 2002; Director: Gabriele Bigott)
• Labyrinth. (RBB 2006; Director: Gabriele Bigott)
• Family portrait with a cat. (RBB 2008; Director: Gabriele Bigott)
• Engineer Andrées balloon flight to the North Pole. (MDR 2008; Director: Walter Adler )
• In times of waning light. Based on the novel of the same name. (SWR 2012; adaptation and direction: Leonhard Koppelmann )
• Metropol . Based on the novel of the same name. MDR and Argon Verlag 2019

Translations

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• Anton Chekhov: The cherry orchard
• Anton Chekhov: The seagull
• Anton Chekhov: Three Sisters (performed in Ruge's translation at the Stadttheater Bern, 1992/93 season)

These three were first published as stage manuscripts from around 1990 to 1992 by the Cologne-based theater publisher Nyssen & Bansemer.

• Anton Chekhov: Uncle Wanja (performed in Ruge's translation in Osnabrück)

• Anton Chekhov: About the harmfulness of nicotine (no publication known; mentioned in: Eugen Ruge, Theater plays 1986–2008 , Reinbek: Rowohlt 2015, see above , p. 7)

Movies

• The novel In times of waning light was adapted for the cinema with the same title . Matti Geschonneck directed, Wolfgang Kohlhaase wrote the script. X Film brought the film to the cinema. He was funded from there with 400,000 euros. The film opened in German cinemas on June 1, 2017.
• Eugene Ruge. A family novel becomes a bestseller. Documentary, Germany, 2011, 55 min., Written and directed by Arpad Bondy , first broadcast: December 5, 2011 by arte , production: Arpad Bondy Filmproduktion , rbb , arte, film information from rbb

Awards

• 1992: Grant of the Schiller Memorial Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 2009: Alfred Döblin Prize for his first prose manuscript In times of waning light
• 2011: Aspect literature prize for In times of waning light
• 2011: German Book Prize for In times of waning light
• 2020: Mainz town clerk

literature

• Régine Robin: Les quatre générations du roman d'Eugen Rugen "Quand la lumière décline" , chap. 2.2. in Un Roman d'Allemagne. Stock, Paris 2016, pp. 132 - 137 (French)

Web links

Commons : Eugen Ruge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Eugen Ruge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Eugen Ruge at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Eugen Ruge at perlentaucher.de
• Eugen Ruge at Rowohlt Verlag
• Interview with Eugen Ruge by Sandra Kegel at the FAZ book fair stand ( YouTube video)
• Interview with Eugen Ruge and reading from In times of waning light in the Paschen literature salon on the book fair stand of the Börsenverein (YouTube video)
• Portrait of Deutsche Welle about Eugen Ruge and his novel In times of waning light (YouTube video)
• Eugen Ruge: The hubris of the West. Why Matthias Platzeck is right . In: Der Spiegel , 50/2014, pp. 138f. ( online )
• WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) talk on Saturday October 19, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the award winner's announcement on October 10, 2011 in the Frankfurt Römer. Live broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur .
2. ^ Message ( memento of October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the German Book Prize website , accessed on October 10, 2011.
3. ↑ Andreas Fanizadeh: "We were not Germans". In: taz.de. December 17, 2017, accessed on December 17, 2017 (interview). 
4. ↑ "Experiment on a language that is dying out". February 25, 2018, accessed on March 18, 2018 (“Perhaps the last Dresden speech in German”, Dresdner Latest News, February 26, 2018, p. 8). 
5. ↑ Dossier on the most important terms in the novel In times of waning light : Archived copy ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Review of the English edition of In times of waning light , in: The New York Times , August 13, 2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/books/in-times-of-fading- light-spans-generations-in-germany.html? ref = books & _r = 0
7. ↑ Review of the English edition of In times of waning light , in: The Independent , August 2, 2013: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-in-times- of-fading-light-by-eugen-ruge-trans-anthea-bell-8744053.html
8. ↑ Review of the English edition of In times of waning light , in: The Times Literary Supplement , July 22, 2013: Archived copy ( Memento of July 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Review of the English edition of In Times of Waning Light , in: The Boston Globe , July 11, 2013: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/07/11/book-review-times-fading -light-eugen-ruge / 8199kIFyzPbJAAxz9rfaVI / story.html
10. ↑ Review of the English edition of In times of waning light , in: The Guardian , July 6, 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/06/times-fading-light-ruge-review
11. ↑ Description of the program on the SWR2 website, accessed on December 16, 2012.
12. ↑ mdr.de: Ulrich Noethen reads "Metropol" by Eugen Ruge | MDR.DE. Retrieved July 10, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Milena G. Klipingat: Eugen Ruge - the mature novelist. November 2011, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
14. ↑ In times of waning light. In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Medienboard - funding decisions for film. (No longer available online.) In: www.medienboard.de. Archived from the original on June 9, 2016 ; Retrieved June 9, 2016 . 
16. ^ Winner of the Schiller Memorial Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7 kB)
17. ↑ Be bold and be rewarded. Article on the Alfred Döblin Prize 2009 in the taz of June 8, 2009, accessed on October 9, 2011
18. ↑ Video aspekte literary award winner: Eugen Ruge (October 14, 2011)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 26, 2014. (offline)
19. ↑ Dirk Knipphals: German Book Prize for Eugen Ruge: What more could you want. In the daily newspaper , October 11, 2011