João Ubaldo Ribeiro

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João Ubaldo Ribeiro (2009)

João Ubaldo Osório Pimental Ribeiro (born January 23, 1941 in Itaparica , Bahia , † July 18, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian writer.

Life

Ribeiro was the first of three children of the couple Manoel Ribeiro and Maria Felipa Osório Pimental. When Ribeiro was two months old, the family moved to Aracaju , Sergipe State . He began to be interested in literature at an early age. From 1955 he attended the Colégio da Bahia, together with Glauber Rocha , with whom he became friends in 1956.

In 1957 he first worked as a journalist for local newspapers. He began to study law at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in 1958 . During this time he edited various magazines and cultural journals together with Glauber Rocha , and was temporarily editor-in-chief of the daily Tribuna da Bahia, which appears in São Salvador da Bahia . In 1959 his work "Lugar e Circunstancia" (Eng. "Place and circumstance") was published in an anthology for stories from Bahia. In 1960 Ribeiro married his first wife, Maria Beatriz Moreira Caldas, a fellow student. The marriage was divorced nine years later. In 1963 he wrote his first novel Setembro nicht faz sentido (Eng. "September makes no sense").

In 1964, Ribeiro left the country for political reasons and went to the United States to study economics. In 1965 he returned to Brazil and gave lectures in political science at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. After six years, however, he gave up his academic career and turned back to journalism. In 1969 he married the historian Monica Maria Roters, with whom he had two daughters: Emilia (* 1970) and Manuela (* 1972).

In 1971 his novel Sargento Getúlio was published, with which he made his breakthrough as a writer. In 1974 his book Vencecavalo eo outro povo ( Eng . "Horse pen and the others") came out. In 1980 Ribeiro got his third marriage with Berenice Batella, with whom he also had two children, Bento (* 1981) and Francisca (* 1983). In 1981 he went to Lisbon with his family on a scholarship. There he wrote for the magazine Careta . In 1984 his main work, Viva o povo brasileiro (translated: Long live the Brazilian people , published in German as Brazil Brazil ) was published.

As a participant in the DAAD's Berlin artist program , Ribeiro lived in Berlin in 1990/1991 . He recorded his experiences during this time in several newspaper articles and then summarized a selection of these texts in the book Ein Brasilianer in Berlin (Original: Um brasileiro em Berlim ). "In the German-speaking area, his work was most widespread outside of Brazil and Portugal."

His honors include a Prêmio Jabuti in 1972 and 1984, and in 1993 the election to the Academia Brasileira de Letras , in which he took seat 34. In 1994 Ribeiro received the Anna Seghers Prize , in 2008 the Prémio Camões , the most important Portuguese-language literary prize for his complete works.

From his return to Brazil he lived in Rio de Janeiro until his death. In 2013 he visited the Frankfurt Book Fair . In July 2014, he died of a pulmonary embolism in his hometown at the age of 73.

Works

Ribeiro's works are mostly set in his homeland Bahía and are often embedded in local stories and legends. He was excellent at describing the moods and people of his homeland. Often his works have a slightly surreal character, which convincingly reinforces the situations in which the actors find themselves.

In his main work "Viva o povo brasileiro" he creates a panorama of the province of Bahía, its Afro-Brazilian myths, bizarre and cruelty in the course of the 19th century with grim humor from the perspective of many people of different social classes and skin color, whose lives are closely intertwined. This reflects the entire history and national identity problem of Brazil.

Ribeiro's work can be assigned to magical realism , a Latin American literary style of which Gabriel García Márquez is the main representative . Another part of his works is based on autobiographical circumstances, e.g. B. “A Brazilian in Berlin”. Ribeiro was one of the most important Brazilian writers.

  • Sargento Getulio . (Original: Sargento Getúlio 1971).
  • The saint who did not believe in God . (Original: O santo que nicht acreditava em Deus 1981).
  • Life and Passion of Pandonar the Cruel . (Original: Vida e paixão de Pandomar, o cruel 1983).
  • Brazil Brazil . (Original: Viva o povo brasileiro 1984).
  • The lizard's smile . (Original: O sorriso do lagarto 1989).
  • A Brazilian in Berlin . (Original: Um brasileiro em Berlim 1994), bilingual edition Portuguese-German 2010.
  • The wonder of Pfaueninsel . Roman (original title: O feitiço da Ilha do Pavão 1997, translated by Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner), Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45288-4 .

Film adaptations

Literary template

  • 1983: Sargento Getúlio

script

  • 1996: Tieta do Brasil (Tieta do Agreste)

literature

  • Steven Uhly: Multipersonality as Poetics. Umberto Eco: Il nome della rosa, João Ubaldo Ribeiro: Viva o povo brasileiro, José Saramago: O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-36410-5 . Mainly pp. 111–177.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay-Michael Schreiner (Ed.): Lemongrass. New Brazilian storytellers. A reader . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-462-01495-1 , p. 234.
  2. ^ Matthias Rüb : Realistic animals and people in strong colors. On the death of the Brazilian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 21, 2014, p. 14.
  3. ↑ João Ubaldo Ribeiro receives Prémio Camões , July 26, 2008
  4. ↑ Kersten Knipp: The laughing classic. On the death of João Ubaldo Ribeiro. In: NZZ, July 20, 1014 [1]
  5. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Ertler: The Brazil-Portugal dichotomy in “Viva o povo brasileiro” by João Ubaldo Ribeiro . In: Claudius Armbruster (Ed.): Portugal and Brazil: Dialogue and discussion of cultures, literatures and media . IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 40–50, here p. 41.
  6. ↑ Ellen Spielmann: Populismo como utopía: la novela histórica "Viva o povo brasileiro" de João Ubaldo Ribeiro y el estudio historiográfico "O povo brasileiro" de Darcy Ribeiro . In: Sonja Steckbauer (Ed.): La novela latinoamericana entre historia y utopía . (= Mesa Redonda, New Series, Vol. 13) Eichstätt 1999, ISSN  0946-5030 , pp. 178-193, here pp. 184-188.
  7. ↑ Steven Uhly: Multipersonality as Poetics. Umberto Eco: Il nome della rosa, João Ubaldo Ribeiro: Viva o povo brasileiro, José Saramago: O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 111-113.

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personal data
SURNAME Ribeiro, João Ubaldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pimental Ribeiro, João Ubaldo Osório (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Itaparica , Bahia
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2014
Place of death Rio de Janeiro