Eva Vargas

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Eva Vargas (born September 20, 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 28, 2010 in Heidelberg ) was a German singer, composer, journalist and visual artist .

Eva Vargas Rest Art Center Heidelberg

Life

Eva Vargas had lived in Heidelberg since 1965, since 1984 in the transformer house of the Heidelberg weir near Wieblingen. She called her self-created art “rest art” and carried out related exhibitions and campaigns with ecological, humanitarian and political objectives. Their activities included the areas of literature, music, painting, design and action. She was the owner and director of the small theater on wheels "Heidelberger Lumpen-Paradies". She repeatedly initiated funding programs in schools, youth and prisons.

Eva Vargas was married to Arnfried Astel . On June 28, 2010, she died of complications from cancer.

Awards

  • 1967 Prize of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing
  • 1976 Egoist-Verlag literary prize
  • 1985 Mannheim Literature Prize of the Robbers 77 (Literary Center Rhein-Neckar)

Publications

Fonts

  • Caressable: poems. Munich: Trikont, 1979.
  • Word courts. Düsseldorf: Eremiten-Presse, 1979.
  • Made ready for peace. Oberhausen: Asso, 1982.
  • Sunday with Helios. Picture-text tape. Heidelberg: Braus, 1987.
  • Basta and Amen: Celebrity Interviews. Picture-text tape. Heidelberg: Alter Ego-Verlag, 1996.
  • Eros, junk and a touch of God. Picture-text tape. Heidelberg: Alter Ego-Verlag, 2000.

Publications in poetry and prose anthologies by Rowohlt, Eichborn-Verlag, dtv, Reclam, Peter Hammer Verlag, among others, as well as in school books and specialist magazines and in radio and television programs at home and abroad.

Sound carrier

  • Songs from the rag paradise. Mannheim: Da Camera, 1965.
  • Along the poppy road. Cologne: EMI Electrola, 1967.
  • From time to time / When God wills. Single. Kassel: Cantate 659401 / Stauda, ​​1967.
  • The new religious song. Kassel: Cantate / Stauda, ​​1967.
  • Fall fruit from the song tree. Cologne: EMI Electrola, 1967.
  • Shots from the rag paradise. Mannheim: Da Camera, 1968.
  • I butterfly. Eva Vargas Hanns Dieter Hüsch. Mannheim: Da Camera, 1969.
  • Fairground song. Mannheim: Da Camera, 1969.
  • Vargasmen. Mannheim: Da Camera, 1971.
  • Kille-kill the sandman. Mannheim: Da Camera, 1975.
  • When Tristan comes. Stuttgart: Intercord, 1977.
  • Until the stones bloom. Munich: Trikont, 1980.
  • I butterfly. Texts by Eva Vargas. With Hanns Dieter Hüsch, Siegfried Schwab a. a. Bietigheim: RBM. 2000.
  • Inside and out: Eva. CD. Heidelberg: Alter Ego-Verlag, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Vargas, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, composer, journalist and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2010
Place of death Heidelberg