Lily Brett
Lily Brett (born September 5, 1946 in Feldafing ; born Lilijahne Breitstein ; also Luba Brajsztajn ) is an Australian-American writer .
Life
Lilijahne Breitstein was born in the Feldafing DP camp , a camp for displaced persons . Her parents were Jews and had survived an odyssey in various forced labor camps. They had the compulsion Lodz ghetto married, were in the concentration camp Auschwitz separated and were found after the liberation again. In 1948 the family emigrated to Australia .
Lily Brett grew up in Melbourne . At the age of 19, she began writing for a rock magazine, interviewing pop greats such as Jimi Hendrix , The Who and the Rolling Stones . After an early first marriage to an Australian rock musician, she is now married to the painter David Rankin . They live in New York with their three children .
Brett was the novel known as Simple .
In 2014 she was awarded the Prix Médicis étranger for the novel Lola Bensky .
Works
- 1986 The Auschwitz Poems. Scribe, Brunswick, Australia, ISBN 0-908011-10-5 , DNB 101650585X .
- 1987 Poland and Other Poems. Scribe, Brunswick, Australia, ISBN 0-908011-13-X .
- 1990 Things could be Worse.
- German: 2002 Everything is half as bad . Translation: Melanie Walz .
- 1990 After the War.
- 1991 What god wants
- German: 2004 An impossible offer. translated by Brigitte Heinrich and Melanie Walz, Deuticke, Vienna / Munich ISBN 3-216-30448-5 .
- 1992 Unintended Consequences.
- 1994 Just Like That.
- German: 1998 Just like that. Translation: Anne Lösch, Deuticke, Vienna / Munich, ISBN 3-216-30367-5 .
- 1997 In full view.
- German: 1999 to see . Translation: Anne Lösch, Deuticke, Vienna / Munich, ISBN 3-216-30446-9 .
- 1999 Collected Stories.
- 2000 New York.
- German: 2001 New York. Translation: Melanie Walz.
- 2001 Too Many Men.
- German: 2002 Too many men. Translation: Melanie Walz, Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-216-30508-2 .
- 2001 diary of a trip. Translation: Melanie Walz, Deuticke, Vienna, ISBN 3-216-30607-0 .
- 2003 Between Mexico and Poland.
- German: 2003 From Mexico to Poland. Translation: Melanie Walz. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-216-30556-2 .
- 2005 You Gotta Have Balls.
- German: 2006 Chutzpah , translated from English by Melanie Walz, stage version as a comedy of the same name by Dieter Berner , premiered in 2012 at the Wiener Kammerspiele .
- 2008 love poems. (Edited and transmitted by Jutta Kaußen ).
- 2012 Lola Bensky.
- German: 2012 Lola Bensky , translated by Brigitte Heinrich. Suhrkamp, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-42330-1 .
- 2014 Only in New York. Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne.
- German: 2014 Still New York. from the English by Melanie Walz. Suhrkamp, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-42467-4 ).
- 2014 if we could stay . Poems, bilingual. Transfer from Jutta Kaußen . Insel, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-458-17610-7 .
Web links
- http://www.lilybrett.com/ Lily Brett's website
- Literature by and about Lily Brett in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lily Brett: My Melbourne . Translation of Melanie Walz. In: Literary World , December 2, 2017, p. 30f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brett, Lily |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breitstein, Lilijahne (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldafing |