Mariella More

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Mariella Mehr (born December 27, 1947 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

The Swiss Mariella was more than members of the minority of Yenish born in 1947 in Zurich. More is a victim of the aid organization for the children of the Landstrasse , which forcibly separated children from their "traveling" parents. She grew up in 16 children's homes and three educational institutions. She was sent to a psychiatric institution four times and spent 19 months in the Hindelbank women's prison .

She has been publishing since 1975, first as a journalist and then as an author. She has received numerous literary awards. In 1981 her first novel ( Stone Age ) was published.

She has been committed to the interests of the Roma since the 1970s, including the Yeniche. In an interview in 1982 she said: “The Roma people are made up of 29 tribes. Among them the Yenish are a relatively small tribe. ”In the same interview, she explains that she was“ kicked out ”of the Yenish community because she resisted the women who founded the Roma or Yenish organizations , were pushed back in it.

In 1975 Mariella Mehr was a founding member of the Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse , in which she was active, initially as a treasurer, from 1976 to 1982 as a secretary. In the first few years she also worked as an editor for the cooperative magazine “Scharotl”, which is a Yenish name for caravan. In her book “Kinder der Landstrasse” she formulated the aims of the Yeniche in a programmatic way and emphasized “the attempts of the Yeniche to rediscover their social and cultural identity”. She did not attend the General Meeting of March 5, 1983 and was no longer re-elected as a member of the Board of Directors.

Since then she sees herself less as a Swiss and more as a Roma writer. Outsiders conclude that they in Romanes would write. This is not naturally the case with a Roma member from the Yeniche tribe; Yenish have their own language, the Yenish. According to the same interview, Mariella Mehr understands Romani, she writes in German, texts have been translated into Italian; Poems also into Romanes, translated by Rajko Đurić .

In 1998 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel for her literary achievements as well as for her commitment to minority politics . After twenty years in Tuscany, Mariella Mehr lives again in Switzerland.

In 2000, she resigned from the Olten group of authors because it had deleted the goal of realizing “a democratic socialist society” from the purpose article of its statutes. She is a member of the International Romani Writers (IRWA), of which she was temporarily vice-president.

Awards (selection)

  • 1981 Literature Prize of the Canton of Zurich for Stone Age
  • 1981 Award of the Canton of Bern for the Stone Age
  • 1983 Literature Prize of the City of Bern for In This Dream ...
  • 1987 Literature Prize of the City of Bern for Children of the Landstrasse
  • 1988 Ida Somazzi Prize
  • 1992 Award of recognition from the Canton of Graubünden (for the entire work)
  • 1995 Award of the City of Zurich (complete works)
  • 1996 Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for Daskind
  • 1996 Medal of Honor of the Tomils Municipality
  • 1998 Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel
  • 2002 Book prizes from the canton and city of Bern for the defendant
  • 2012 ProLitteris Prize for a literary life's work
  • 2016 Bündner Literature Prize

Works

Prose, poetry

  • Stone age . Novel. Zytglogge Verlag , Gümligen 1981
  • A red boulder strolls into this dream . Poems. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1983
  • The woman's light. Report on Spain and the female bullfighters . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1984
  • Children of the country road. A relief organization, a theater and the consequences . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1987 (documented book for the performance)
  • Flashbacks . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1990 (collection of texts from 1976–1990)
  • Zeus or the twin tone . Novel. R + F Verlag, Zurich 1994
  • The child . Novel. Nagel & Kimche Verlag , Zurich 1995
  • Incendiary spell . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1998
  • News from exile . Poems, bilingual (German & Romani). Translation by Rajko Djuric. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 1998
  • Unwelcome . Poems, partly bilingual (German & Romani). Translation of Miso Nikolic. Drava, Klagenfurt 2001
  • Accused . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002
  • In the constellation of the wolf . Poems. Drava, Klagenfurt 2003
  • Counter words. Stories, poems, speeches, reports. Ed. V. Christa Baumberger and Nina Debrunner. Limmat, Zurich 2017.

Stage texts

  • Children of the country road . Drama, premiered in Theater 1230, Bern 1986
  • Silvia Z. Drama, premiered in Chur City Theater in 1986
  • Anni B. Drama. Performance at Theater Gessnerallee, Zurich 1989 (performance refused by the author)

literature

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rafaela Eulberg: "Language is my home". Interview with the Romni writer Mariella Mehr. In: Schlangenbrut, 21 (2003), No. 82, pp. 21–25, here: p. 25.
  2. ^ Mariella More: Children of the Landstrasse. A charity, a theater and the consequences, Zytglogge-Verlag, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-7296-0264-0 . In it section: "The attempts of the Yeniche to rediscover their social and cultural identity, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Excerpt from HR files, download free of charge by email
  4. ↑ Rafaela Eulberg: "Language is my home". Interview with the Romni writer Mariella Mehr. In: Schlangenbrut, 21 (2003), No. 82, pp. 21-25.
  5. ↑ Interview question: “Do you also write in Romanes?”, In Rafaela Eulberg: “Language is my home”. Interview with the Romni writer Mariella Mehr. In: Schlangenbrut, 21 (2003), No. 82, pp. 21-25, question p. 22; no question about the Yenish language is asked.
  6. ^ Mariella Mehr: Nachrichten aus dem Exil / Nevipe andar o exilo, Gedichte / Gila, translations into Romanes by Rajko Djuric, Edition Niemandsland, Klagenfurt 1998. ISBN 3-85435-296-4
  7. ↑ Der Bund: A strong voice is back , January 6, 2015
  8. ↑ Background of IRWA ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: romaniwriters.com (English).
  9. ↑ Award ceremony 2012 ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed March 5, 2012) and http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/nouvelles_agence/international/Litterature:_Mariella_Mehr_recompensee_a_Zurich.html?cid=32230050 (accessed 5 March 2012)
  10. ↑ SWI swissinfo.ch, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation: Littérature: Mariella Mehr récompensée à Zurich. Retrieved March 16, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME More, Mariella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Jenish writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich