Marica Bodrožić

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Marica Bodrožić, Berlin on December 16, 2016

Marica Bodrožić (born August 3, 1973 in Zadvarje, SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a German writer of Croatian descent.

Life

Until she was ten, Marica Bodrožić was raised by her grandfather in Svib in Dalmatia near Split . In 1983 she moved to Hesse and attended school in Sulzbach am Taunus . From this point on, she learned the German language . In her autobiographical book, heeding stars, coloring stars, which was awarded the German Language Initiative Prize , she describes her poetic and poetological relationship to what she calls her second mother tongue, which has also become the language of her literature. She has received several important awards. Bodrožić also works as a translator from English and Croatian. She has essays, features, and reviews, etc. a. Written about Nazim Hikmet , Anne Sexton , Robinson Jeffers , Dubravka Ugrešić , Danilo Kiš , Joseph Brodsky , Marina Zwetajewa and about bilingualism, for example by Elias Canetti and Vladimir Nabokov . As a visiting professor she taught a. a. at Dartmouth College in the USA German poetry of the 20th century and contemporary poetry. She also regularly gives creative writing courses at schools and universities or on behalf of the Goethe Institute . Her books have so far been translated into thirteen languages.

In 2007 her first documentary, which she made together with filmmaker Katja Gasser, was broadcast by 3sat ( The heart painting of memory. A journey through my Croatia ). She wrote the script for it and was a co-director.

In Frankfurt am Main , she trained as a bookseller and studied cultural anthropology , psychoanalysis and Slavic studies . She is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croats , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

After working in Paris and Zurich, Marica Bodrožić now lives as a freelance writer in Berlin and is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Topics, form and reception

Her early stories and poems are devoted to the poetic exhaustion of memory and recollection; Most of these literary works are located in the hinterland of Dalmatia (sometimes also in Herzegovina , where she spent parts of her early childhood), in which the Mediterranean, the Karst and the mercilessness of the weather, of nature in general, are in the life and fate of the Mirror people. Again and again there are seekers, travelers, lost people whom she takes care of and whom she linguistically, erecting a monument to ordinary people, evokes, even sings about. The language itself becomes the protagonist for Marica Bodrožić. Her prose is always lyrically interspersed, the poetry in places narrative. In the more recent, especially lyrical works of the author, topics such as mysticism (see also below Mechthild von Magdeburg ), transcendence, eroticism, femininity and love occupy a larger space than before.

Her highest praise for her poetry was given by Walter Hinck in the FAZ , who certified her freshness and obstinacy to the same extent for her first volume of poetry: “ Well then: Marica Bodrožić refreshes German poetry. The energy with which this author is able to charge the German language becomes clear where the poetic comes to itself: in her poems. Such a refreshment can only do good for German poetry. "

The NZZ also pays tribute to her when it says, for example: “ Bodrožić designs dense and captivating worlds of associations, apparently disparate things are melted into complex images in the twinkling of an eye. In just a few sentences, Marica Bodrožić moves from incidental and always very precise observations into the depths of history, for example into the Balkan wars, or into the heights of an erotic encounter, open to the idea of ​​words that she likes to be entangled in polyphonic self-talk. "

The poetic richness of images in Bodrožić's language is a particular highlight in her second volume of stories, Der Windsammler . However, here she is not immune from occasionally exaggerating, so that her stories exude an "overdose of poetry". Her novel Das Gedächtnis der Libellen is entirely dedicated to the concrete, places, characters and names are no longer located in the imaginary, but in the politically tangible. In her prose trilogy Das Gedächtnis der Libellen (2010), Kirschholz und alten Emotions (2012) as well as The Water of Our Dreams (2016) the author succeeds in designing an ensemble of figures cyclically: the physicist Nadeshda, the first-person narrator of the first novel , on the way from Berlin to Amsterdam to see Ilja, a married Jewish novelist with whom she has the son Ezra; Arjeta in Berlin, formerly a philosophy student in Paris , the first-person narrator of the second novel every week, the same age as the author; Ilja, the nameless first-person narrator of the third novel, who practices awakening from the coma for four seasons, fictitiously addressing the people who are important to him, such as Nadeshda and Arjeta. The resurrection metaphors of the Russian novels Tolstoy ( purification of the soul ) and Dostoevsky ( gradual renewal of a person in love ) are further developed in great images from medical-seismographic structures into unseen and heard spaces of meaning of the interior ( heart space ): In this poetic and poetological solution of the philosophical body-soul problem, in body meditation the self becomes the narrator releasing itself from its inner imprisonment, increasing with the seasons in black and white shadow gradations ("number and time nodes", "light vortices", winter), in visionary color explosions ( inner color landscapes , blood crystals , spring ), in listening to lung noise such as bird language (summer), in communicating as reading and writing this journey to yourself and starting over as a way of life (in the sense of Hannah Arendt). The man, having got rid of his old files and data, asks himself: “What kind of person have I been? Also such a politically correct rationalist? A person who could not give anything to another person, who had an explanation for everything and was therefore in danger. Endangered from the should. About the inability to give something that cannot be touched. ”The first-person narrator becomes a poet and with him the reader is enriched with an existential experience for himself and for his / her view of others. The essays by the author can be read before and after this novel, which is central to the history of the work.

The author held an event in the series Zwiesprachen at the Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett Munich and selected Mechthild von Magdeburg for it (December 4, 2017). The reason given by the author is: " Through the poetically recorded experience of this mystical paradox ['Flowing Light'], Mechthild deserves the place of one of the first women to write in German: a philosopher of the condensed time" .

Poetological quotes:

"Poetic ignitions not only produce poems, but also people who think differently and breathe differently."

“'Thoughts are actions.' Nietzsche's theorem has become our reality. We only think within ourselves, no party, no organization, no nation can do it for us. At the same time, we have to learn to look at first and then to act, in the sense of Hannah Arendt : Ultimately, those who are watching get the essentials. Our struggle must be spiritual. His weapon is our compassion, our awareness. Nowhere is it better trained than in literature. "

In its justification for the award of the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen for 2020, the jury finally explained the special features of this work on January 27, 2020, in which they stated:

“Marica Bodrožić is an experienced, recognized author who sees herself on a spiritual path and always as a European: 'The European is a person with memories,' she states, from origins to an arrival in the future. The author locates this perspective of hope in a reference to a poetics of the 'linked senses', which at the same time includes a 'poetic reason'. In doing so, she refers to thoughts of Romanticism and Expressionism, in which her appeal is' Come! openly, friend! ' Means demand and incentive to connect density and thinking. With Hannah Arendt, she recognizes in these words of Friedrich Hölderlin the 'freedom to go wherever you want'. Her 'curriculum vitae' and her work biography attest to this. "

Works (selection)

Critical literary work
  • The breath semicolon between singing and listening. To be the way the zeitgeist does not want it, and thus pave the way for beauty: New poems by the Slovenian writer Ales Steger (Review of Ales Steger: Above heaven under the earth . Poems. Translated from Slovenian and with an afterword by Matthias Göritz . Edition Lyrik Kabinett im Hanser Verlag, Munich 2019), FAZ from April 4, 2019, No. 80, p. 12
  • A suitcase in installments. Else Lasker-Schüler retained her poetic power in exile - also thanks to the help of two Swiss people : Poetry book for Hugo May (review of the facsimile edition by Andreas Kilcher and Karl Jürgen Skrodzki, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2019), FAZ from May 2, 2019, No. 101, p. 10
  • Memory belongs to the vulnerable . A novel from 1962, first published in German in 2019: Psalm 44 by Danilo Kis. From the Serbo-Croatian by Katharina Wolf-Grieshaber, Munich: Hanser 2019. It's wonderful that the publisher has named this original language that way , FAZ of October 12, 2019, No. 237, p.10 (with the important quote from Hannah Arendt We can start something because we are beginners and beginners. To the return of European Jews)
  • Born to speak. German is the language of my greater freedom of thought, a place where my mind has cast its anchor, FAZ from February 26, 2018, No. 48, p. 12
  • The bridge to yesterday has been blown. The dead have a say and defy time: Pia Tafdrup's poems describe her father's dementia as a loss table of memory ; Review of Pia Tafdrup: Tarkowski's Horses . Poems. From the Danish and with a comment by Peter Urban-Halle, Lyrik Kabinett Foundation, Munich 2017, FAZ of January 2, 2018, No. 21, p. 10
  • Review of Ha Jin, The Emigrated Author. About the search for your own language , Arche Verlag 2014
  • The tear overslept her longing to flow. About Nelly Sachs ,
  • 11.9. - 911. Pictures of the new century. together with Dagmar Leupold and Kerstin Hensel, in: Göttinger Sudelblätter (edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold), ISBN 978-3-89244-621-7 (2002)
  • A letter to Europe. Compassion as a weapon. Europe must stand up for humanity and expand its borders. Poetry can help (on the occasion of the European debate on the awarding of the European Union Literature Prize during the Frankfurt Book Fair)
  • A Central European woman. In the tradition of the Istrian border culture, Marisa Madieri experiences existence as a continuity , in: Frankfurter Rundschau from January 26, 2005
Media appearances
  • In useless mad rage. How feelings rule politics and everyday life
  • The heart is still writing radiograms , reading on NDR Kultur on Saturday, January 4th, 2020
  • I want to go back to the limitless in me. Else Lasker-Schüler and the awakening in literature around 1900 . Work in progress for the literature and music festival Weg durch das Land and NDR Kultur 2019, cf. The first time. A departure is a change in the spirit , in the series NDR Kultur "Am Morgen vorgelesen", Saturday, July 15, 2019, 8.30-9.00 am ("In this new text she plays with the overtones of language again: the lament, the Requests, longing and dreaming, always deeply rooted in the earth's own experiences ") [1]
  • The European is a person with memories , in: Voices for Europe , broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on May 22, 2019
  • We need more dreamers! Thoughts on Trump - , episode 7 in NDR Kultur March 22, 2017
  • Dancing prime numbers at the Aurajoki , blog of the Goethe-Institut from October 4, 2016

Translations (selection)

  • E morto Tito , Italian translation of the book Tito is dead . Translated from the German by Guisi Drago, published by Zandonai Editore, Rovereto, 2010
  • Tito is dead. English translation of the stories Tito is dead by Mary K. Bryant, in: Dies., Dancing to the music. The exophonic texts of Marica Bodroz̆ić in translation. Master thesis. University of Iowa, IA / USA, 2009.
  • Tisina, Rastanak. Croatian translation of The Player of the Inner Hour , novel. Translated from the German by Latica Bilopavlovic, published by Fraktura, Zagreb, 2008
  • Tito je mrtav . Croatian translation of the book Tito is dead . Translated from the German by Latica Bilopavlovic, published by Fraktura, Zagreb, 2004
  • Tito est mort . French translation of the book Tito is dead . Translated from the German by Colette Kowalski, published by Éditions de l'Olivier, Paris

Scholarships / Awards

literature

  • Rădulescu, Raluca: The foreign as a place of encounter. Studies on German-speaking Southeast European authors with a migration background . Constance: Hartung-Gorre 2013.
  • Rădulescu, Raluca: “Waar ben ik?” Marica Bodrožić'verhaal “The birthmark” (Translated from the German Hannelore Roth). In: Colofon Schrifturen II. Ed. Jan Ceuppens, Arne de Winde, Iannis Goerlandt. Gent: Grafische Cel, Luca Publishing 2014, pp. 75–77.
  • Rădulescu, Raluca: Hybrid identities between word landscapes. Marica Bodrožić's prose volume inheriting stars, coloring stars . In: GERMANICA , Lille / France, 51/2012, pp. 63-74 .; In: Tamás Lichtmann, Karl Katschthaler (Ed.): Interculturality and Cognition . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, pp. 87–96; in: La littérature interculturelle de langue allemande: un vent nouveau venu de l'Est et du Sud-Est de l'Europe / textes réunis par Bernard Bach . - Villeneuve d'Ascq: Univ. Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3. -, (2012), pp. 63-74.
  • Braun, Michael, and Susanna Schmidt (eds.): Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2015: Marica Bodrožić . Sankt Augustin / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95721-173-6 ; therein an interview with Michael Braun in Weimar on May 30, 2015 under the title Work on Freedom , pp. 65–87.
  • Wichard, Norbert: Guest - Between Dalmatia and Germany. Marica Bodrozic's novel “The Player of the Inner Hour”, In: Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village, edited by Kathleen Thorpe, Anette Horn, Alida Poeti, Veronique Tadjo, Third International Conference of the Department of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: 12-15 September 2011, Sun Media Metro 2014, pp. 263-272.
  • Nowicz, Iga: I understood that I [...] had a voice in every language in the world " - voice, body and language with Marica Bodrozic, In: Diana Hitzke, Mariam Finkelstein (ed.): Slavic literatures of the present as World literature - hybrid constellations , Innsbruck: innsbruck university press 2018, pp. 215–236 (pdf) .
  • Förster, Kristina: Foreign or Familiar? Melinda Abonji's and Marica Bodrozic's Multilingual Literature . In. German Life and Letters 68/2 (2015), pp. 228–244.
  • Kazmierczak, Madlen: Nation as an identity card? On the literary examination of 'nation' and 'history' with Marica Bodrozic and Melinda Nadj Abonji , In: Germanica 2 (2013), pp. 21–33.
  • Winkler, Dagmar: Marica Bodrozic writes on the 'heart center of the yellow of all colors' . In: Michaela Bürger-Koftis (Ed.): One language, many horizons. The eastward expansion of German-language literature. Portraits of a new European generation , Vienna 2008, pp. 107–119.
  • Winkler, Dagmar: Pluridimensional Creativity and Interpretation of Text and Language . In: TRANS. Internet Journal for Cultural Studies, No. 17, from January 2010,

Web links

Commons : Marica Bodrožić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marica Bodrožić - European Union Prize for Literature. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Members. In: PEN Center Germany. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Walter Hinck: Aviators, say hello to the sun. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 31, 2007, accessed on March 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Martin Zingg: Land for the broken of writings. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 28, 2009, accessed on April 13, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Jörg Drews: Review of Der Windsammler . Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 20, 2007, accessed on April 13, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Jan Röhnert: King or Beggar Nothing remains what it is. Der Tagesspiegel , December 18, 2010, accessed on April 13, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Dialogue between Marica Bodrožić about Mechthild von Magdeburg , on lyrik-Kabinett.de
  8. ↑ So small in the world and so big in spirit , Marica Bodrožić in conversation with Ewart Reder, poet No. 19, poetenladen Leipzig 2015
  9. ^ A letter to Europe - compassion as a weapon , on: tagesspiegel.de of October 4, 2014
  10. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Poetic Reason in the Age of Cast Iron Concepts. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ditta Rudle: The water of our dreams review on tanzschrift.at from September 24, 2016
  12. ↑ Review of collected poems by Nelly Sachs , on ORF July 18, 2010
  13. ^ The poet Nelly Sachs , in: Lyrikzeitung from July 19, 2010
  14. ^ A Central European Woman , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of January 26, 2005
  15. ↑ How feelings dominate politics and everyday life Discussion between Marica Bodrozic, literary scholar Marina Münkler and NDR Kultur moderator Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur.
  16. ↑ The Saturday story: The heart is still writing , on NDR Kultur from January 4, 2020 (in the series: Authors write stories about the radio , published as: Audio. Ergo. Sum. - Radio stories)
  17. ↑ I want to go back to the limitless , reading with Marica Bodrožić on June 15, 2019 in Fischbeck Abbey, Hessisch Oldendorf
  18. ↑ The European is a person with memories , in: Voices for Europe , broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on May 22, 2019
  19. ↑ We need more dreamers! , Episode 7, NDR Culture March 22, 2017
  20. ↑ Das Tanzen Primezahlen am Aurajoki , blog of the Goethe-Institut on October 4, 2016 (under “Meet in Finland” publish authors who spend a longer period in Finland at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut)
  21. ↑ Une enfance dalmate écrite en allemand , review on Le Temps from January 7, 2016
  22. ↑ Literaturverein Münster: Reading with Marica Bodrozic. 2008, accessed on October 17, 2019 (German).
  23. ↑ Robert Bosch Stiftung on the award. Retrieved April 13, 2014 .
  24. ↑ Archive of the events on the website of the Adalbert Stifter Association. (No longer available online.) October 15, 2005, archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved April 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asv-muen.de
  25. ↑ Every language has its own mind , in: Sprachnachrichten des Verein Deutsche Sprache eV No. 40, December 2008, p. 11
  26. ↑ Wolfgang-Michael Böttcher, Anne Huschka: Bruno Heck Science Award to Dr. Silja Bellingrath. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , November 5, 2009, accessed on April 13, 2014 .
  27. ↑ Marica Bodrozic receives the Prize of the LiteraTour Nord 2013 , press release of the LiteraTour Nord 2012/2013
  28. ^ Kranichsteiner Literature Prize for Marica Bodrožić. (No longer available online.) Zeit Online , July 31, 2013, archived from the original on March 26, 2014 ; Retrieved April 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  29. ↑ Saskia Gamrath: Forms of speech that vibrate like light waves - Marica Bodrožić receives the Konrad Adenauer Literature Prize 2015 Press release of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of May 31, 2015
  30. ↑ Michael Braun, Susanna Schmidt (ed.): Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Marica Bodrožić , Konrad Adenauer Foundation Bonn 2015 ISBN 978-3-95721-173-6
  31. ↑ Hasenclever Prize 2020 goes to Marica Bodrožić , press release from the City of Aachen on January 27, 2020
  32. ↑ Hybrid identities between word landscapes. Marica Bodrožić's prose volume inheriting stars, coloring stars , résumé on Germanica 51/2012
  33. ↑ Pluridimensional creativity and interpretation of text and language , in: TRANS. Internet Journal for Cultural Studies , No. 17, January 2010
personal data
SURNAME Bodrožić, Marica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Svib , SFR Yugoslavia