Katja Kettu

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Katja Kettu (2013)
Katja Kettu (2011)

Katja Kettu (* 10. April 1978 in Rovaniemi , Finland as Katja Heikkinen ) is a Finnish writer , animator and film producer .

Life

Katja Kettu graduated from the Turku Art Academy in 2001 with a degree in animation. She then studied Finnish literature and media culture at the University of Tampere . Since then she has been responsible as an animator for short films such as Kirsikkakakku , Viisi aamua vielä and Röllin sydän . She also made several music videos, including for musicians like Felix Kubin & Aavikko , I Walk The Line and her own band Confusa , in which she works as a singer. She has also worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines such as Turun Sanomat , Vihreä Lanka , Voima , Lumooja and Vegaia .

With her novel Surujenkerääjä Kettu made her debut as a writer in 2005. The book, published by WSOY, was nominated for Best Debut Novel for the Helsingin-Sanomat Literature Prize and was ultimately awarded the Tiiliskivi Prize. However, she had her big breakthrough as a writer with her third novel Kätilö . The book was well received by critics and was number 1 on the Finnish bestseller list for several weeks. For the story that tells the love between a Finnish nurse and a German soldier during the Second World War , she was awarded literary prizes such as the Kalevi Jäntin Prize, the Runeberg Prize and the Thank You-for-the-Book Medal . Thematically, it was one of four Finnish books published between 2011 and 2012 and dealing with Finland during World War II . While the books by Paula Havaste, Antti Tuuri and Heidi Köngäs have not yet found a German translation, Kettu's book was published by the Cologne-based publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch in August 2014 after a translation by Angela Plöger under the German title Wildauge .

criticism

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  • About the novel Wildauge :
    • It is the author's expressionistic and explosive power of language that allows us readers to experience and suffer with the story by speaking largely from the naive perspective of the politically inexperienced midwife, thus allowing an unusual look at a repressed chapter of the German-Finnish past. (.. .) Katja Kettu tells of a strong woman, a midwife from Lapland, who finds her strength in the magic of nature, trusting her own feelings and ultimately in her overwhelming ability to love .
    • The ZEIT magazine says about Wildauge : The sexual level of this novel is raw and direct. Behind this is the Finnish-German copulation in the war and the deep humiliation it left behind. To this day it is kept silent or covered up by patriotic stories. But Kettu knows no heroes and no morals. It celebrates an existentialism that alternates between pathos and icy coldness, which in places can compete with the war novels by Curzio Malaparte and Jonathan Littell. Kettu has become a star of Finnish literature just because of this one book.
    • This is indeed a novel for the mature reader. Those who can endure one or the other storm of indignation or despair without giving up. But reading is also a profound experience of literature that dares something. Overall an elementary reading pleasure.

Works (selection)

Katja Kettu (2012)
Novels
  • Surujenkerääjä (2005)
  • Hitsaaja (2008)
  • Kätilö (2011)
  • Piippuhylly (2013)
  • Yöperhonen (2015)
  • Fintiaanien mailla (2016)
Animation shorts
  • 1997: Pieni elokuva tupakoinnin vaaroista
  • 1999: Kirsikkakakku
  • 2001: Agoraphobia
  • 2001: manipulation
  • 2004: manipulation
  • 2005: Siberian Express
  • 2006: Viisi aamua vielä
  • 2007: Merivuokkojen taistelu
  • 2007: Röllin sydän
  • 2011: Mankeli
Music videos
  • 2004: Felix Kubin & Aavikko - Superlake Beat
  • 2004: I Walk The Line - Demons Are Forever
  • 2006: I Walk The Line - When I'm Gone
  • 2007: Confusa - Haihtuu

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Katja Kettu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kettu, Katja , animaatiokopla.fi
  2. ↑ Whispering parents, raving daughters , zeit.de
  3. ^ German-Finnish Society / Landesnachrichten NRW, November 2014 / LN 156; P. 8; 42855 Remscheid, Germany.
  4. ↑ No. 41 / October 2014, p. 13
  5. ^ Norbert Kühne , Medienhaus Bauer / Marler Zeitung and 5 other issues, Marl, December 10, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kettu, Katja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heikkinen, Katja (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish writer, animator and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovaniemi , Finland