Evgenia Lopata

Evgenia Lopata (2019)

Evgenia Lopata ( Ukrainian Євгенія Валеріївна Лопата Yevhenija Valerijivna Lopata ; born November 1, 1994 in Chernivtsi , Ukraine ) is a Ukrainian cultural manager and translator , artistic director and managing director of Meridian Chernivtsi .

Origin and education

Evgenia Lopata's father is a Germanist, her mother a Ukrainian. She has a brother.

From 2001 to 2012 Evgenia Lopata attended the Chernivtsi Grammar School # 1 with extended German lessons, which she graduated with honors in 2012.

After graduating from high school, she studied German and economics (management and administration) at the Jurij Fedkowytsch University in Chernivtsi from 2012 to 2018, and at the same time at the University of Graz . She completed her master's degree in 2018 with a thesis on coaching as a leadership technique in a company . Since 2019 she has been studying cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Evgenia Lopata speaks fluent German, English, Russian and her mother tongue Ukrainian.

Career

Evgenia Lopata has directed the International Poetry Festival Meridian Chernivtsi since 2013 and the publishing house of the same name.

As a translator, she translates texts from German into Ukrainian . In addition, she acts as a contact person for the Lyrikline in Ukraine. She organizes reading tours of Ukrainian authors such as Serhiy Zhadan , Oksana Sabuzhko and Juri Andruchowytsch through Europe, initiates many international European-Ukrainian cultural projects, and has been dealing with the presence of Ukrainian writers at international literary forums such as the Leipzig , Vienna and the Frankfurt Book Fair .

In March 2019, she began an internship in the German Bundestag in the office of Markus Uhl (CDU).

honors and awards

2015 “Young European of the Year” prize from the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe for promoting cultural exchange between Ukraine and the EU.

Publications

My friend, the crane operator - translation of the selected poems by Pedro Lenz into Ukrainian together with Serhiy Zhadan (Meridian Czernowitz Verlag, 2018, photos - Julia Weber)

Web links

Commons : Evgenia Lopata - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.meridiancz.com/de/evgenija-lopata-ukraine/ accessed on August 18, 2019
↑ Evgenia Lopata. In: Focus on poetry. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
↑ Lopata, Eugenia. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
^ Evgenija Lopata / Ukraine - International Literary Corporation MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
^ German Bundestag - International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS). Retrieved March 30, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lopata, Evgenia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Лопата, Євгенія Валеріївна (Ukrainian); Lopata, Yevheniya Valeriyivna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian cultural manager and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chernivtsi , Ukraine

[1] ttp://www.meridiancz.com/de/evgenija-lopata-ukraine/ accessed on August 18, 2019

[2] Evgenia Lopata. In: Focus on poetry. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .

[3] Lopata, Eugenia. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .

[4] Evgenija Lopata / Ukraine - International Literary Corporation MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .

[5] German Bundestag - International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS). Retrieved March 30, 2019 .