Eva Menasse

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Eva Menasse at the awarding of the Carl-Zuckmayer-Medal to Robert Menasse in the State Theater Mainz on January 18, 2019.

Eva Menasse (born May 11, 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer and former journalist .

Life

She is the daughter of the football player Hans Menasse and half-sister of the writer Robert Menasse . After studying German and history , she initially worked as an editor, inter alia. for the Viennese news magazine Profil , later for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . She has lived in Berlin-Schöneberg since 2003 . In the German Bundestag election campaign in 2005 , she joined the election initiative initiated by Günter Grass in favor of the then red-green government. In 2010 she gave the eulogy for Georg Kreisler at the presentation of the Hölderlin Prize , as well as at the presentation of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Margaret Atwood in October 2017.

Eva Menasse was married to Michael Kumpfmüller and has a son with him.

Political commitment

She is a member of the PEN Center Germany and one of the supporters of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016. In March 2019, she received the Mainz city writers' literary prize endowed with 12,500 euros . The award is linked to a one-year right of residence in the town clerk's domicile in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz .

In the reason for the award of the Ludwig Börne Prize 2019 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt to Eva Menasse, her "incorruptibility" was emphasized.

Menasse is one of the signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism , which claims to redefine and clarify the concept of anti-Semitism .

factories

The Holocaust in Court 2000

Her first book publication brings together her reports on the trial of the Holocaust denier David Irving, which was concluded in London in April 2000 .

Vienna 2005

In 2005 Menasse's first novel Vienna was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch . In numerous anecdotes, sometimes reminiscent of Friedrich Torberg's aunt Jolesch , she tells the fictionalized story of her partly Catholic and partly Jewish relatives. The novel, which was preprinted in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung at the time, received predominantly positive reviews from the relevant German media, while the Austrian media reviewed it rather critically. In autumn 2005 it was on the bestseller lists in Germany and Austria. In April 2005 the book was ranked number 1 on the ORF best list . Eva Menasse received the Rolf Heyne Debut Prize for Vienna in 2005.

Dark flower 2021

"I didn't want to write a historical novel, but a paradigmatic human history," said the author in a radio interview, thus evaluating the events in Rechnitz, Austria, as a basis for the close connection between Nazi crimes and post-war culture of remembrance. In March 1945, over a hundred Jewish slave laborers were killed in the small town in Burgenland and thrown into a mass grave that has not yet been located. In the literary processing it is not about the criminalistic clarification of the facts, but through the condensation into the fictional 'dark bloom' opens up the possibility of describing more fundamental human faults . These include the conflicts about repressing and fighting attempts to commemorate appropriately; this is spread on the narrative level of the present. An American comes to the Austro-Hungarian border. After the end of the Cold War, he hopes that the fate of his relatives will be clarified and that the mass grave will be identified so that he can commemorate personally. He asks awkward questions. Like the Viennese students who want to repair the neglected Jewish cemetery against the will of the residents. The massacre extends into the present. "I was interested in the representation of the group and its dynamics over the decades after something like this happened," says Eva Menasse. where everyone roughly knows how the other person feels, or which side he was on in World War II, whether he was more of a Nazi or a communist, or a follower or maybe even a Jew like the one who runs the small shop. " For the reviewer Sigrid Löffler , 'Dunkelblum' becomes an "evil Austrian anti-homeland novel", but also a "social hidden object".

In a review for ZEIT, reviewer Ijoma Mangold particularly praised the language, "a kind of literary dream Austrian". Language is Menasse's "key to the protagonists' heads". The dialect makes everything, "even the scariest monstrosities, somehow sound quite understandable". Eva Menasse used the historical model "in order to - it must be put so bleakly - to work out the human universals". Menasse also avoided the "danger of telling stories from top to bottom, so to speak, from the comfortable position of those who were born later." Overall a "stroke of genius" for Ijoma Mangold.

Work overview (selection)

Eva Menasse at a reading on the occasion of the Lübeck Literature Meeting 2013 in the Theater Lübeck with Feridun Zaimoglu , Tilman Spengler and Sherko Fatah (from left)

Eva Menasse's works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Dutch and Hebrew, among others.

Awards and honors

Heinrich Böll Prize 2013, presented by Jürgen Roters

Literature and articles

Web links

Commons : Eva Menasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juraske, Alexander: Hans Manasseh. A life between Vienna, London and Hollywood . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-20782-5
  2. ↑ Eva Menasse gives peace prize laudation . In: boersenblatt.net , August 9, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Author's Lexicon Literaturport. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Eva Menasse wants to be a “court fool” . Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, March 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Börne Prize 2019 - Relentless acceptance speech by Eva Menasse . SWR2 of May 27, 2019, accessed on June 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ The Jerusalem Declaration On Antisemitism
  7. ↑ Radio review in Deutschlandfunk Kultur . August 18, 2021. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  8. ^ Ijoma Mangold: The horror in the most beautiful dialect. (Paywall). In: Die ZEIT. August 19, 2021, accessed August 23, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Analysis
  10. ↑ Helmut Böttiger : Plea for political morality . Deutschlandradio Kultur from February 12, 2015; review
  11. ↑ KulturZeit interview with the author of the novel . August 18, 2021. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  12. ↑ Cologne Böll Prize to Eva Menasse. Rundschau Online, June 27, 2013; Retrieved June 27, 2013
  13. ↑ Eva Menasse wins Alpha Literature Prize . derStandard.at, November 11, 2014; Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  14. ↑ ... and the 2015 award goes to: Eva Menasse . jonathan-swift-preis.ch; Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  15. ^ Writer Eva Menasse receives the Hölderlin Prize . orf.at, April 24, 2017; accessed April 24, 2017.
  16. ↑ Austrian Book Prize to Eva Menasse . orf.at, November 7, 2017; Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  17. ↑ press release. ZDF, October 29, 2018; accessed on October 29, 2018.
  18. ^ Ludwig Börne Prize for Eva Menasse. Deutschlandfunk -Kultur, February 5, 2019.
  19. ↑ https://ru.muenchen.de/2020/237/Fernsehpreis-LiteraVision-2020-verliehen-93904
  20. ↑ Tübingen Poetics Lecturer 2021 | University of Tübingen. Retrieved October 29, 2021 .
  21. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize 2021 goes to Eva Menasse. In: ORF.at . January 1, 2022, accessed January 1, 2022 .
personal data
SURNAME Menasse, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
BIRTH DATE May 11, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna