Jaroslav Rudiš

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Jaroslav Rudiš in Wrocław (2015)

Jaroslav Rudiš (born June 8, 1972 in Turnov ) is a Czech writer , playwright and screenwriter who also writes in German.

Life

Rudiš grew up in Lomnice nad Popelkou and attended high school in Turnov. He initially studied German , history and journalism in Liberec , Zurich and Prague before coming to Berlin on a journalist scholarship . His first novel Der Himmel unter Berlin ( Nebe pod Berlínem , 2002) was written in Berlin . In 2002, Rudiš received the Jiří Orten Prize for this book .

He worked for a long time as a cultural editor for the daily Právo and has lived in Prague as a freelance writer and journalist since 2006 .

In September 2006, his second novel, Grandhotel , was published by Labyrint in Prague ; At the same time, the film version of the material, in which Rudiš himself played a supporting role, was released in Czech cinemas and was also shown at the Berlinale. The German translation of Grandhotel hit bookshops in early December 2008. In 2007, his third novel, Potichu ( The Silence ), was published in the Czech Republic and was well received by Czech critics.

The author also works in the dramatic field; together with Petr Pýcha he has written several plays. a. were seen at theaters in Prague and Ústí nad Labem . Lately Rudiš has also been writing in German; Together with the Leipzig author Martin Becker , he wrote the radio play Lost in Praha , which was first broadcast on April 1, 2008 on Westdeutscher Rundfunk . In addition, both authors wrote a libretto for an opera about 1968, which also premiered in 2008 in Prague and Berlin.

In addition to his work as a writer, Rudiš gained a lot of popularity through the cartoon character Alois Nebel , which he designed together with the Czech rock singer and draftsman Jaromír Švejdík . In addition to weekly comic strips, a complete comic book is now also available in English. A German translation took place in 2012. Together with Jaromír Švejdík and his publisher Joachim Dvořák, Rudiš founded the band The Bombers in winter 2007 , whose first CD was released in the Czech Republic.

At the end of 2007 Rudiš was elected to one of the thirty most important personalities in the Czech Republic, together with representatives from politics and society.

In 2014 Rudiš was awarded the International Usedom Literature Prize. In 2018 he received the Prize of the Literature Houses and the Chamisso Prize / Hellerau .

His novel Winterbergs last Reise , published in 2019, was nominated at the Leipzig Book Fair in the “Fiction” category.

Rudiš's works have been translated into German, French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Polish and Finnish.

Works

Novels
  • Nebe pod Berlínem (2002; Ger . Der Himmel unter Berlin , 2004).
  • Grandhotel (2006; German Grandhotel , 2008).
  • Alois Nebel (together with Jaromír 99 ) (2006; German 2012).
    • Awarded as an animation film in 2012: European Film Award / Best Animated Film .
    • in the Czech Republic originally in three volumes: Bílý potok (2003), Hlavní nádraží (2004), Zlaté Hory (2005).
  • Potichu (2007; German The Silence in Prague , 2012).
  • Alois Nebel. Na trati (2008; German Alois Nebel. Life according to the timetable , 2013).
  • Konec punku v Helsinkách (2010).
  • Národní třída (2013).
  • The visit of Mr. Horváth , short prose. Edition Thanhäuser , Ottensheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-900986-92-6 .
  • Winterberg's last trip . Luchterhand, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-630-87595-8 .


Plays / radio plays / opera
  • "The sky under Berlin" (original broadcast: 2005 1Live, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
  • Alois Nebel (together with Jaromír Švejdík) (world premiere: 2005)
  • Léto v Laponsku ( Summer in Lapland ) (together with Petr Pýcha) (World premiere: 2006)
  • Strange Love (together with Petr Pýcha) (world premiere: 2007)
  • Lost in Praha (together with Martin Becker) (first broadcast: spring 2008 on WDR3 and 1Live)
  • 1968 Opera (together with Martin Becker) (world premiere: autumn 2008)
  • Plattenbaucowboys (together with Martin Becker) (radio play, WDR 2011)
  • The lock. A scenic concert (together with the Kafka Band based on the novel by Franz Kafka ) (World premiere: Theater Bremen , September 2015)
  • Grandhotel (radio play, directed by Dieter Lohr , LOhrBär-Verlag, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-939529-17-0 .)
  • Bohemian Paradise (World premiere: German-Sorbian People's Theater Bautzen, February 2019)

Web links

Commons : Jaroslav Rudiš  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize winner 2019 Jaroslav Rudiš. www.chamissopreishellerau.de, accessed on October 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Memories of an old man: "Winterberg's Last Journey" by Jaroslav Rudiš. NDR, February 24, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rudiš, Jaroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Turnov