Grace Marta Latigo
Grace Marta Latigo (born February 21, 1967 in Bratislava ) is an Austrian author , concept and performance artist , painter and human rights activist.
Life
Grace Marta Latigo was born in 1967 in what was then Czechoslovakia . Her mother was Slovak and her father came from Uganda . She moved with her family to Vienna in 1981 at the age of 14 .
When in 1992, after the end of the Czech and Slovak Republics, the residence regulations in Austria changed, her visa was no longer extended. Seven years of illegal life followed , which were to form the breeding ground for Latigo's social and humanitarian commitment.
Grace Marta Latigo appears again and again as a painter, actress and stand-up comedian and writes regularly for the Vienna street newspaper Augustin .
Publications (selection)
- Otito aye - universal truth . black poetry. Ed. Exil, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-901899-22-5 (German, English).
- My words . Aa-Infohaus, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01418-3 .
- Women write texts - women read . In: Christoph Kepplinger-Prinz (ed.): Linkes Wort at the Volksstimmefest . tape 2011 . Globus-Verl., Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9502669-5-5 .
- Red White Red - we tell . Aa-Infohaus, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503040-3-9 .
Prizes and awards (selection)
- 2002: Literature Prize for Writing Between Cultures
- 2016: Working grant Kültür Gemma!
Film and TV (selection)
- 2009: Tschuschen: power in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Web links
- Grace Marta Latigo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Grace Marta Latigo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview from September 17, 2004 in the Cultural Broadcast Archive
- Grace Marta Latigo: Linkes Wort 2010 on YouTube , October 29, 2010, accessed June 15, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ghettoization and pressure to assimilate In the: KupfZeitung , accessed on June 16, 2020
- ↑ Karin Krichmayr: Grace Marta Latigo. a portrait. In: DerStandard.at . April 10, 2007, accessed on June 15, 2020 ( DER STANDARD print, March 8, 2007): "Artist Grace Latigo lived illegally in Austria for years and looks after migrants and victims of trafficking in women"
- ↑ ONNA - An exhibition. In: volume.at. May 22, 2019, accessed June 15, 2020 .
- ↑ a b SCHOLARSHIPS 2016. In: http://www.kueltuergemma.at/ . kältüř gemma !, accessed on June 15, 2020 (English): “As a stand-up comedian, Latigo will take a cheeky and grotesque look at the daily life of a strong black woman in Vienna who does not let the most difficult circumstances drag her down. "
- ↑ Under Kreisky, the weather was even better. In: Augustin accessed on June 10, 2020
- ↑ Angelika Friedl: The literature prize "Writing between cultures". (PDF) University of Vienna , 2003, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Latigo, Grace Marta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Latigo, Grace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author, concept and performance artist, painter and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratislava |