Leta Semadeni

Leta Semadeni (born October 26, 1944 in Scuol in the Lower Engadine ) is a Swiss poet and narrator who writes and publishes bilingual in Vallader and in German . She lives in Lavin and is considered one of the most renowned representatives of Rhaeto-Romanic poetry and contemporary storytelling. A special feature of her work is the continuous bilingualism , in which every language has its equal rights: she "maneuvers ... between the two idioms without fear of contact".

Life

Leta Semadeni grew up in Scuol as the second of four siblings. Her father was the secondary school teacher, writer, theater director and playwright Jon Semadeni . She obtained the Matura at the High Alpine Daughter Institute in Ftan . Semadeni was trained as a Germanist and as a secondary school teacher.

As a teacher in particular philological subjects, she taught for seven years at the Jewish School in Zurich and then for 22 years at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz . At Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha , she worked parallel to teaching on the program Il balcun tort (German: «Der Erker »).

In 2005 she quit her job as a teacher, and since then she has devoted herself entirely to writing. In 2016 she was one of the winners of the CHF 25,000 Swiss Literature Prize .

Awards

• 2011: Bündner Literature Prize . Presented on February 9th in the Cantonal Library of Graubünden in Chur .
• 2011: Schiller Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation , for In mia vita da vuolp / In my life as a fox and for her complete lyric works. Award ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the Solothurn Literature Days on June 2, 2011.
• 2016: Swiss Literature Prize , for her prose work Tamangur, written in German .
• 2020: Josef Guggenmos Prize for children's poetry for tulips / tulipanas

Works

• Monologue for Anastasia / Monologue for Anastasia. Poesias / poems. Nimrod, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-907139-67-4 . (Romansh / German)
• Poesias da chadafö / kitchen poems . Poesias / poems. Uniun dals Grischs, Celerina / Schlarigna 2006, ISBN 3-908611-29-6 . (Romansh / German)
• Tigrin: l'istorgia d'ün giat engiadinais / Tigerli (little tiger): The story of an Engadin tomcat. Children's and young people's book. Uniun dals Grischs , Celerina / Schlarigna 2007, ISBN 3-908611-31-8 . (Romansh / German)
• In mia vita da vuolp / In my life as a fox. Poesias / poems. (Foreword by Esther Krättli; afterword by Angelika Overath .) Chasa Editura Rumantscha , Chur 2010, ISBN 978-3-905956-01-6 . (Romansh / German)
• Raz. M. Wallimann, Alpnach 2011, ISBN 978-3-905969-04-7 . (Romansh / German)
• Tamangur. Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85869-641-0 .

Some of their poems by Efisio Contini, Dodo Hug and Martin Derungs were set to music and published on music albums.

literature

• Bruno Rauch (Schweizerischer Feuilltonsdienst): A house like a poem, a poem like a house. In: Engadiner Post, September 7, 2010, p. 13.

Web links

• Publications by and about Leta Semadeni in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by Leta Semadeni in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Leta Semadeni at perlentaucher.de
• Leta Semadeni at Bibliomedia Switzerland
• DRS podcast 2 broadcast reflections on poetry book Poesías since Chadafö / kitchen poems

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Engadiner Post of September 7, 2010, p. 13 (see under literature ).
2. ↑ The Federal Office of Culture awards the Swiss Literature Prizes 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Office for Culture FOC CH dated December 28, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016. 
3. ↑ I am particularly pleased that the poetry has received an award. In: Die Südostschweiz from January 19, 2011, p. 9.
4. ^ Announcement Award of the Swiss Schiller Foundation 2010 - Romansh Literature.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 60 kB.) Accessed April 4, 2011.  
5. ↑ The heart is a dense forest. Review in the NZZ on June 9, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016.