Florjan Lipuš

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Florjan Lipuš (2018)

Florjan Lipuš (born May 4, 1937 in Lobnig near Bad Eisenkappel , Carinthia ) is an Austrian poet and writer who publishes in Slovenian .

Life

Florjan Lipuš was born in 1937 as the son of two Carinthian Slovenes in the southern part of Carinthia. His father served in the German Wehrmacht during World War II . Florjan lost his mother at the age of six. After entertaining a group of Gestapo men disguised as partisans , she was arrested, deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and murdered there.

After the war, Lipuš attended the church high school in Tanzenberg , which was followed by studies at the philosophical-theological seminar in Klagenfurt from 1958 to 1962 , but which he did not graduate. From 1966 until his retirement in 1999 he worked as a teacher at various Carinthian elementary schools .

Florian Lipuš is the father of the Austrian poet Cvetka Lipuš , the musician Gabriel Lipuš and the photographer Marko Lipuš.

Literary work

Florjan Lipuš, along with Gustav Januš, is one of the most important representatives of the authors from the ranks of the Carinthian Slovenes, who write their works exclusively in Slovenian .

In 1960 he founded the literary magazine mladje ( Jungwald ) together with Karel Smolle and Erik Prunč in Klagenfurt , of which he remained editor-in-chief until 1981.

Lipuš was best known for his novel Zmote dijaka Tjaža , published in Slovenia in 1972 , which was translated into German in 1980/1981 by Peter Handke and Helga Mračnikar as Der Zögling Tjaž . Handke praised his colleague's "art of wordplay" and the "force and pain" of his texts. The German translation was presented on March 31, 1981 in Vienna in what was then the Museum of the 20th Century in the presence of the author, the two translators and Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreiskys . Thereafter Johann (Janez) Strutz became the most important translator of Florjan Lipuš's works.

In 1985, Lipuš was accepted as a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts . For his novel Boštjans Flug ( Boštjanov let ), published in 2003 , he received the most important Slovenian literary prize, the Prešeren Prize , in 2004 .

A work edition by Lipuš, which was initially completed in 2007 with the rain procession , was published by Wieser Verlag , Klagenfurt . Johann Strutz made a name for himself as a congenial translator of his literature into German, and was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Translators for his work .

Lipuš publishes partly under the pseudonym Boro Kostanek .

In every novel, a literarily alienated factual text is at the center of the action, revolving around the sketches on the subjects of Eros, Pathos and Thanatos. Only a reflective can get out of this traditional system to fly up and away through personal maturation in the mind.

Works (selection)

  • Sketches in passing ( Črtice mimogrede , 1964, sketches)
  • The pupil Tjaž ( Zmote dijaka Tjaža , 1972; German 1981, ex. Peter Handke and Helga Mračnikar; novel)
  • The elimination of my village ( Odstranitev moje vasi , 1983; German 1997, trans.Fabjan Hafner; novel)
  • The denial of melancholy ( Jalov pelin , 1985; German translation 1989, ex. Fabjan Hafner; novel)
  • Suspicious handling of chaos ( Stesnitev. Neogibni, a sumljivi opravki z zmedo. 1995; German translation 1997, trans.Johann Strutz; novel)
  • Heart stains ( Srčne pege , 1991; German 1999/2000, ex. Johann Strutz; novel)
  • Boštjan's flight ( Boštjanov let , 2003; Ger . 2005, ex. Johann Strutz; novel)
  • The rain procession and other prose ( Prošnji dan , 1987; German Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2007, trans. Johann Strutz; novel and short prose / sketches)
  • Seelenruhig ( Mirne duše ), German by Johann Strutz , with an afterword by Fabjan Hafner . Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-99027-099-8 .
  • Schotter ( Gramoz ), German by Johann Strutz, Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-99027-229-9 .

Awards

literature

  • Luise Maria Ruhdorfer: Lipuš's identity carousel. An investigation into dealing with Eros, Pathos and Thanatos. Re Di Roma Verlag, Remscheid 2010, ISBN 978-3-86870-173-9

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ a b Deutschlandradio Kultur : “Wuchtige Prose aus dem Gebirge” , January 22, 2008
  2. ↑ Major offensive for minorities in: Arbeiter-Zeitung , Vienna, April 2, 1981, p. 13
  3. ↑ orf.at: Author Florjan Lipus receives Grand State Prize . Article dated July 5, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lipuš, Florjan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kostanek, Boro (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobnig near Bad Eisenkappel