Gabriela Adameşteanu

Gabriela Adameşteanu (2018)

Gabriela Adameşteanu (born April 2, 1942 in Târgu Ocna ) is a Romanian writer .

Life

Gabriela Adameşteanu grew up in Piteşti . From 1960 she studied Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest and in 1965 wrote her thesis on Marcel Proust . She was able to publish her first literary attempts in 1971, her debut novel Drumul egal al fiecărei zile was published in 1975. She initially worked for the Editura Politică publishing house, which was renamed Editura zurtiințifică și Enciclopedică in 1966. She was able to publish in the Romanian literary magazines Viața Românească and România Literară . During the time of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu , she worked for the publishing house Cartea Românească . She translated one work each by Guy de Maupassant and Héctor Bianciotti into Romanian. In 1983 her novel Dimineață pierdută ( Lost Morning ) was published, which was brought to the stage in 1987 by Cătălina Buzoianu . She always refused to work with the Romanian secret service Securitate or to write articles in homage, “but never again. Don't lie was my only, certainly minimalist, motto ”. In the Romanian Revolution in 1989 she dared to support a protest on Radio Free Europe .

After 1991 she became editor of the magazine 22 , which is published by the Grupul pentru Dialog Social (GDS) , and had to do literary work because of her activity as a civil rights activist, for which she received the "Hellmann Hammett Award" from Human Rights Watch in 2002 put back. She also acted as President of the Romanian PEN

2019, she was of Eva Ruth Wemme into German translated novel Lost morning with the Leipzig Book Fair Prize awarded.

Gabriela Adameşteanu is married to Gheorghe-Mihai Ionescu and has one son.

Works (selection)

• Drumul egal al fiecărei zile (1975)
  • The same way every day . From the Romanian by Georg Aescht . Frankfurt, M.: Schöffling, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-297-8 .
• Dimineață pierdută (1983)
  • Lost morning: novel . Translation from Romanian by Eva Ruth Wemme . Berlin: AB - The Other Library , 2018, ISBN 978-3-8477-0404-1 .
• Întâlnirea (2003)
  • Encounter. Translation from Romanian by Georg Aescht. Klagenfurt / Celovec: Wieser, 2018, ISBN 978-3-99029-287-7 .
• Mioritic passivity and inaugural complex. Romania's literary life from a mythological perspective . From the Romanian by Anke Pfeifer, in: Sinn und Form , 2008, pp. 233–241
• Provizorat (2010)

literature

• Nicolae Manolescu: Gabriela Adameşteanu: "Dimineaţă pierdută" , in: Literatura română postbelică, vol. II, Braşov: Aula, 2001, pp. 268-272.
• Ioan Holban: Gabriela Adameşteanu , in: Profiluri epice contemporane, Bucureşti: CR, 1987, pp. 358-364.

Web links

Commons : Gabriela Adameşteanu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gabriela Adameşteanu in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Gabriela Adameşteanu in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Gabriela Adameşteanu at perlentaucher.de
• Gabriela Adameșteanu , at Contemporary Romanian Writers (en)
• Bernhard Spring : "Herta Müller has nothing to do with Romanian literature." , Interview with Vorwaerts, March 21, 2011
• Gabriela Adameşteanu , short biography, at: Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriela Adameşteanu , short biography at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2006
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mioritic Passivity and Inaugural Complex. Romania's literary life from a mythological perspective , 2008 p. 236. For the title of the article, see Miorița .