Friederike Migneco

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Friederike Maria Cayetana Migneco (born February 22, 1963 in Luxemburg , also Cayetana Caruso ) is a German-Italian poet, essayist and translator.

Life

Migneco spent her youth in Italy, where she attended the ancient language high school Liceo Spedalieri in Catania, and in Luxembourg, where she learned ancient languages ​​at the European School. She completed her studies in comparative religious history and oriental studies at the University of La Sapienza in Rome in 1988 with a thesis on the image of Japan in the Germany of the Third Reich. From 1983 to 1985 she completed a course in the history and cultures of the Middle and Far East at ISMEO (Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East), which was founded by Giuseppe Tucci . Migneco's university lecturers included personalities such as the ancient historian Santo Mazzarino and Tucci's successor and Vipassana teacher Corrado Pensa . In 1989 she worked in the Italian parliament for the MP Vito Napoli as his public relations advisor, and in the following years as a freelance translator in Sicily. There she took part in the creation of a biodynamic agricultural project. Migneco “lived in Japan for a long time and had intensive encounters with the religious traditions of the Orient.” Today she lives in her native country, where she is the director of the Dudelange city library, and in April 2001 also took on the Luxembourgish citizenship.

Poetry

In 2011, Friederike Migneco published the collection of love poems I am made of you under the name Cayetana Caruso. In the stereophonic fullness of sound and the richness of forms of her poetry, a "more" can be felt, the longing for one person becomes a longing for the completely different. As the literary critic Elise Schmit writes, Migneco uses free rhythms and mostly dispenses with end rhymes, but her poems seem like poetry from another time. In this case, the choice of the pseudonym is not about “playful self-denial”. “It is more about the fact that, with the text production, an 'I' that gives itself this name is 'made', that is, brought forth. Strictly speaking, 'Cayetana Caruso' is therefore not a pseudonym, because the name does not serve to deceive: Its purpose is not to cover up, but to make it visible. It is, if you will, the outermost shell of an authority identity that is only constituted through the process of lyrical writing. ” Paul Taylor wrote of Migneco's poetry:“ The subtitle of the collection is love poems , and most of them are about love from Caruso's poems. It remains to be seen whether this is a woman's love for a man or a soul's love for her Creator. These questions are involuntarily posed to the reader, but not answered clearly, and it is both the mystery of what is being said and the intensity with which it is expressed that make these poems so stirring, so powerful, and so poignant. “Here the author addresses u. a. the connection between love and death. The book is dedicated to “Dir, Luc, and the Différence fondamentale”. As the literary scholar Josiane Weber writes, it is not about the "difference" between men and women, but rather the "Différence fondamentale [de l'Être]" on which the transcendental thinking of the French philosopher Maxence Caron is based. The dedication "is an indication of the thematic convergence of both authors under the sign of the completely different." In 2017, Friederike Migneco published the collection of mystical poems Annonciade: inni per la biografia di un'anima in Italy . These poems venture into areas of inwardness in which the gaze contemplates the emergence in itself of a thinking that is anchored in the original sources of being. The volume contains mostly Italian and some German poems and an introduction by Maxence Caron with seven excerpts from his poem Le Chant du Veilleur, translated into Italian : poëme symphonique . Her poetry addresses here u. a. the longing for the perfect harmony of man and nature and the search for the divine absolute in the awareness of the fragility of earthly existence.

Criticism of biotechnology

Migneco was in close contact with the Austrian-American scientist and writer Erwin Chargaff , whose work and concerns she made known in Italy. Chargaff's correspondence with Migneco is kept in the German Literature Archive in Marbach . Even before she got in touch with Chargaff personally and discussed the problems of genetic research with him, Migneco was a critic of biotechnology. After the publication of Chargaff's Incredible Secret in Italy, she submitted numerous essays that deal critically with genetic engineering. Migneco was the representative of the International Forum for Genetic Engineering (Ifgene) for Luxembourg .

Activity as a publisher

Together with the Austrian religious scholar and philosopher Volker Zotz , Friederike Migneco founded the non-profit culture publisher Kairos Edition in Luxembourg in 2002 . In addition to the German surrealist Richard Anders and Valentin Tomberg , the publisher's program also includes books on Christian spirituality and Buddhism, such as by Lama Anagarika Govinda , a prominent mediator of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. The Luxembourgish translation of the first two volumes of the children's classic Harry Potter by Joanne K. Rowling sees itself as a contribution to the establishment of Luxembourgish as an international literary language. The publishing house sees its headquarters in Luxembourg as "a special task. The multilingual Grand Duchy between Germany, France and Belgium lies at the intersection of Germanic and Romance cultures. This results in the Kairos Edition claiming an intercultural program and, in the broader sense of the word, going beyond cultural and intellectual barriers. Authors of the Kairos Edition are often cross-border crossers between systems, regions and cultures. "

Valentin Tomberg

Together with Wilhelm Maas , Martin Kriele , Giancarlo Roggero and others, Migneco is working on an understanding of the philosophy of the Baltic mystic Valentin Tomberg , whom she sees as being closely related to Carl Gustav Jung . She has translated a work by Tomberg into Italian and, together with Volker Zotz, published Tomberg's unpublished work Le mat itinérant and Innere Gewissheit .

other activities

Migneco was a board member and member of the editorial board of the Luxembourg cultural magazine forum for politics, society and culture , in which she regularly published articles. In Italy, texts and translations by Migneco have been published in magazines such as Il Foglio, La Sicilia, Si alla vita and Lo Straniero. She was also a board member of the Center de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines in Dudelange , a center for migration research that was founded in 1995. Since 2007 she has published articles on cultural history and literary reviews in der Warte , the weekly supplement to the Luxemburger Wort

Publications

Poetry

  • as Cayetana Caruso: I am made of you: love poems. Edition Signathur, Dozwil 2011, ISBN 978-3-908141-77-8 .
  • Everything is different. Poems (2003-2006) in: Freedom. Awareness. Responsibility. Festschrift for Volker Zotz on his 60th birthday , edited by Friedhelm Köhler, Friederike Migneco, Benedikt Maria Trappen, Edition Habermann, Munich, pp. 379–395, 2016, ISBN 978-3960250098
  • Annonciade: inni per la biografia di un'anima. Poesia lirica. Prefazione bilingue con sette estratti da Il Canto di Colui che veglia di Maxence Caron . Edizioni Estrella de Oriente, Caldonazzo 2017, ISBN 9788887037364
  • Poems , in ALUC: Annuaire 2016 & 2017, Luxembourg, pp. 51–53
  • Heritage. Poems , in Nos Cahiers, Lëtzebuerger zeitschrëft fir culture, 4/2019, 40th Joer, Luxembourg, 75–79

Editing and translations

  • with Erwin Chargaff (ed.): Mistero Impenetrabile. La scienza come lotta pro e contro la natura. Scrinium, Catania 1995, ISBN 88-86554-00-1 .
  • with Volker Zotz (ed.): Totus tuus. Marian book on the Luxembourg Octave of Our Lady. Kairos , Luxembourg 2004, ISBN 2-9599829-9-1 .
  • with Volker Zotz (ed.): Valentin Tomberg: Le mat itinérant: l'amour et ses symboles - une médidation chrétienne sur le Tarot. The Wandering Fool: Love and Its Symbols - a Christian Tarot Meditation. Kairos, Luxembourg 2007, ISBN 978-2-9599829-5-8 .
  • with Erwin Chargaff (ed.): Mistero Impenetrabile. La scienza come lotta pro e contro la natura. Lindau, Torino 2009, ISBN 978-88-7180-843-7 .
  • as editor: Valentin Tomberg: Lazzaro: un miracolo che continua. Estrella de Oriente, Trento 2010, ISBN 978-88-87037-17-3 .
  • with Volker Zotz (ed.): Valentin Tomberg: Inner certainty. About the way, the truth and life. Kairos Edition, Luxembourg 2012, ISBN 978-2-919771-00-4 . *
  • as editor: Freedom. Awareness. Responsibility. Festschrift for Volker Zotz for his 60th birthday. With Friedhelm Köhler and Benedikt Maria Trappen Edition Habermann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3960250098

Articles (selection)

  • La capacità giuridica dell'embrione umano: aspetti bioetici , Lo Straniero / The Stranger 26, Magazine of IMISE, XII Year, 1997
  • L'apprenti-sorcier: le risque du génie génétique , Forum fir kritesch Informatioun iwwer Politik, Kultur a Relioun, No. 205, Luxembourg, 2001
  • as Cayetana Caruso: De la technocratie à la poésie ou les certitudes et la liberté: récit d'une naissance , in: Forum for Politics, Society and Culture, No. 209, Luxembourg, 2001
  • "Oh, how beautiful is Panama", or what interests you in Buddhism? in: Buddhism , Forum for Politics, Society and Culture, No. 212, Luxembourg, 2001
  • with Volker Zotz: The Buttiglione case. In: Forum for Politics, Society and Culture. Luxembourg., No. 241 (Nov. 2004), pp. 15-20.
  • The meaning of CG Jung in the work and knowledge method of Valentin Tomberg. In: Michael Frensch, Elisabeth Heckmann (eds.): Valentin Tomberg, life, work, effect. Novalis Verlag, Schaffhausen 2006, ISBN 3-907160-82-7 .
  • Ernst Jünger. A figure of the century: Helmuth Kiesel presents a comprehensive biography of the writer and thinker in: Die Warte, No. 23/2228, 2008, Luxembourg
  • Heribert Mühlen and the basics of a we philosophy. According to the id and me philosophy: The question of meaning re-enters the room , Die Warte No. 8/2250, 2009
  • Descended to Hell: The Forgotten Article of Faith. Live and die in humble humility, devoted to the search for love and true knowledge. On the death of Wilhelm Maas , Die Warte No. 24/2374, 2012
  • The pages qui demandaient à paraître. Le Journal inexorable de Maxence Caron: 800 pages troublantes de confessions, d'aphorismes, de réflexions, d'adoration et de méditation sur l'essentiel , Die Warte No. 35/2385, 2012
  • with Luc Deitz : Le culte des héros anciens est fini aujourd'hui: le métier d'historien: entretien avec le professeur Italy Andrea Giardina in Luxembourgish terms. Die Warte, 66 (2014), No. 16/2438, pp. 4–5

Secondary literature

  • Paul Taylor, Untimely love poems: Cayetana Caruso presents a disturbing bilingual collection of poetry: the religious moment as an important part of poetry , Luxembourg word. Die Warte, Luxembourg, Année [63] (2011), No. 14/2328, p. 20
  • Elise Schmit, Lyrische Selbstfindung , d'Lëtzebuerger Land, July 29, 2011
  • Paola Cairo, Friederike Migneco: autrice, traduttrice, editrice , Passa Parola, 2014, A. 10 (febbraio 2013), No. 1, p. 14
  • Jean-Jacques Flammang, "La pensée qui Te reflète est le souffle de l'âme sauvée": les poèmes à empreinte religieuse de Friederike Migneco , ALUC: Annuaire 2016 & 2017, Luxembourg, pp. 48–51
  • Maxence Caron, L'oeuvre poëtique de Friederike Migneco , pp. 217-220, in: Fastes: de la littérature après la fin du temps , Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2019, ISBN 978-2-251-44888-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The full name can be found in: Memorial. In: Journal Officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. B, N ° 47, 19 juillet 2001 , p. 920.
  2. ↑ as Cayetana Caruso: I am made of you: love poems. Edition Signathur, Dozwil 2011, ISBN 978-3-908141-77-8
  3. ↑ On the biography of Friederike Migneco cf. Josiane Weber : Friederike Migneco. In: Center national de littérature: Luxembourg authors' lexicon.
  4. ↑ as Cayetana Caruso: De la technocratie à la poésie ou les certitudes et la liberté: récit d'une naissance , in: Forum for Politics, Society and Culture, No. 209, Luxembourg, 2001
  5. ^ Paul Taylor: Untimely love poems. Cayetana Caruso presents a disturbing bilingual collection of poetry. In: Luxemburger Wort . The waiting room. April 28, 2011.
  6. ^ Memorial. In: Journal Officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. B, N ° 47, 19 juillet 2001 , p. 920.
  7. ↑ Elise Schmit: Lyrical self-discovery. ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: d'Lëtzebuerger Land . July 29, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land.lu
  8. ^ Paul Taylor: Untimely love poems. Cayetana Caruso presents a disturbing bilingual collection of poetry. In: Luxemburger Wort . The waiting area April 28, 2011.
  9. ↑ Cayetana Caruso: I am made of you. Edition Signathur, Dozwil 2011, ISBN 978-3-908141-77-8 , p. 7.
  10. ^ Josiane Weber: Friederike Migneco. In: Center national de littérature: Luxembourg authors' lexicon.
  11. ^ Josiane Weber Friederike Migneco. In: Center national de littérature: Luxembourg authors' lexicon.
  12. ↑ Erwin Chargaff: Mistero Impenetrabile. La scienza come lotta pro e contro la natura. Edizione curata e tradotta da Friederike Migneco. Scrinium, Catania 1995, ISBN 88-86554-00-1 .
  13. ↑ See yearbook of the German Schiller Society. International organ for modern German literature. Volume 44, 2000, p. 473.
  14. ↑ Human cloning has begun. (PDF; 208 kB) In: forum. 188: 68-71 (1998); Which person for tomorrow? The challenge of genetic engineering. (PDF; 186 kB) In: forum. 214 (2002), pp. 17-18; Genetic manipulation in humans Diversity or selection, individuality or duplication? (PDF; 436 kB) In: forum. 214 (2002), pp. 19-24.
  15. ↑ Kairos Edition a publisher introduces itself (accessed on October 22, 2012)
  16. ↑ Friederike Migneco: The meaning of CG Jung in the work and knowledge method of Valentin Tomberg. In: Michael Frensch , Elisabeth Heckmann (eds.): Valentin Tomberg, life, work, effect. 1.2, Novalis Verlag, Schaffhausen 2006, ISBN 3-907160-82-7 .
  17. ^ Friederike Migneco: Valentin Tomberg: Lazzaro: un miracolo che continua. Estrella de Oriente, Trento 2010, ISBN 978-88-87037-17-3 .
  18. ↑ Volker Zotz: Friederike Migneco (ed.): Valentin Tomberg: Le mat itinérant: l'amour et ses symboles - une médidation chrétienne sur le Tarot. The Wandering Fool: Love and Its Symbols - a Christian Tarot Meditation. Kairos, Luxembourg 2007, ISBN 978-2-9599829-5-8 .
  19. ↑ catalog.bibnet.lu
  20. ↑ kairos.lu
personal data
SURNAME Migneco, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caruso, Cayetana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg