Léda Forgó

On a reading tour in 2008 at the Taranta Babu in Dortmund

Léda Forgó (born July 27, 1973 in Kazincbarcika , Hungary ) is a Hungarian-German writer.

Life

Léda Forgó lived in Budapest until shortly after graduating from high school . There she played in several films as a child actress, including in 1984 in the Oscar- nominated drama Hiobs Revolte . In 1994 she moved to Stuttgart, where she studied history and puppet theater at the University of Music and Performing Arts .

Forgó moved to Berlin in 1998 to study scenic writing at the University of the Arts , which she completed in 2002. From 2003 to 2005 she lived in Brandenburg an der Havel , then again in Berlin. In 2011 she moved to a village in Schleswig-Holstein . She has lived in Hamburg with her twin daughters since 2014.

Fonts

• Zsolt Pozsgai: For the sake of mom. Whale Songs , 2000. (Play / Comedy, Translation)
• Grandparents. In: clearings . Graz 2000. (short story)
• My brother's body. Atrium-Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85535-132-9 . (Novel)
• Toes on the Mediterranean coast. ( Lábujjak a Földközi-tenger partján. ) In: irodalmijelen , Arad, Romania 2008. (short story)
• Mama Aqua. In: EDIT . Leipzig 2009 (February). (Play (excerpt))
• Waiting for the impact. In: Festival of lights, shadow plays. dtv, Munich 2009.
• The lack of beauty. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-676-7 . (Novel). Paperback edition 2012, ISBN 978-3499254420 .
• Many cultures - one language, anthology of the students at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Recklinghausen. Created under the guidance of Léda Forgó, Metropole Ruhr 2010 & Verein für Literatur Dortmund, 2010.
• Fall a thousand times. In: Down Town Berlin - Stories from the Lower Town. Gangway eV 2010, ISBN 978-3-940213-63-1 .
• Léni wants life. In: Nido . Hamburg 2016.
• How cancer turned life inside out. In: Tagesspiegel . Berlin 2016.
• Lulu answers. In: Nido . Hamburg 2016. (reading story)

Grants

• Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2000–2002)
• Scholarship from the Berlin Senate (2000)
• Invitation to the Göttinger Dramatikerwerkstatt (2000)
• Adelbert von Chamisso Award (2008)
• Working grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation (2009)
• Alfred Döblin Scholarship (2010)
• Scholarship Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf (2011)
• Literature grant from the state of Baden-Württemberg (2012)
• Working grant from the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Foundation (2012)
• Recognition prize of the Hohenems Literature Prize (2013)

Web links

• Literature by and about Léda Forgó in the catalog of the German National Library
• Léda Forgó in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Léda Forgó at perlentaucher.de
• Jörg Plath: Review of On the lack of beauty at dradio, 23 November 2010