Petros Markaris
Petros Markaris ( Greek Πέτρος Μάρκαρης , real name Petros Markarian ; born January 1, 1937 in Istanbul ) is a Greek writer. He became internationally known for his detective novels about the quirky "Commissioner Kostas Charitos" investigating in Athens . In 2008 he was appointed President of the National Book Center ( EKEBI ).
life and work
Petros Markaris, son of an Armenian businessman and a Greek mother, attended the St. Georgs College in Istanbul and after graduating from high school, studied in Vienna and Stuttgart for a few years . He was also a Turkish citizen for years. Markaris speaks and writes in Greek, Turkish and German. He has lived in Athens for a long time .
Before he started writing, he had studied economics . He has written several plays, including The Story of Ali Retzo , which was staged with great success in 1971 during the military dictatorship. Since the play takes place in Turkey, the censors said it criticized Turkey.
He started a popular Greek television crime series (Anatomy of a Crime) and was co-author of filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos (1991 The Stork's Floating Step , 1995 The Gaze of Odysseus, and 1998 Eternity and a Day ). He also translated several German dramas into Greek such as B. Goethe's Faust I and Faust II as well as Brecht's mother Courage . Together with the Turkish director Yeşim Ustaoğlu , he worked on the script for their 2004 film Waiting for the Clouds .
His crime novels always have a tendency towards social criticism and are often set in the milieu of an established leftist that has lost its ideals. “Commissioner Charitos” is on the one hand a Greek petty bourgeois and average man who doesn't think too much of women, but at the same time loves his daughter and his wife very much. During the colonel's regime , he participated in torture as a police candidate, for which he is ashamed; in the meantime he maintains a close friendship with one of the victims of the time, but one that is burdened with guilt. He is obedient to his superiors, but in solving his cases he acts without hesitation against their instructions. He persistently persecutes the crimes committed against marginalized groups, although he is full of prejudice against them. “I have an insurmountable aversion to two things in life: against racism and black people.” (Charitos in Nachtfalter .) In his spare time, Charitos almost exclusively reads encyclopedias.
The autobiography of Markaris was published in 2008 in German translation at the Zurich Diogenes Verlag under the title repeat offenders. A life between Istanbul, Vienna and Athens .
Works
The Kostas Charitos novels
- 1995 Nυχτερινό δελτίο (literally: late news )
- Hellas Channel. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-06241-9 .
- 1998 Άμυνα ζώνης (literally zone defense )
- Moth. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-257-06287-7 .
- 2003 Ο Τσε αυτοκτόνησε (literally: Che committed suicide )
- Live! German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-257-06391-1 .
- 2006 Βασικός Μέτοχος (literally: main shareholder )
- The major shareholder. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06574-9 .
- 2008 Παλιά, πολύ παλιά (literally: earlier, much earlier )
- The nanny. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06696-8 (The German edition contains a further chapter, which the author added at the end at the request of the publisher).
- 2010 Ληξιπρόθεσμα Δάνεια (literally: loans due ).
- Bad loans. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-06793-4 .
- 2011 Περαίωση (German about: debt settlement , literally: implementation, termination ).
- Payday. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-06841-2 .
- 2012 Ψωμί, Παιδεία, Ελευθερία (literally: bread, education, freedom )
- Billing , German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06873-3 .
- 2014 Τίτλοι Τέλους (German approximately end credits ), epilogue to the Trilogia tis Krisisos
- Back to start. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06925-9 .
- 2016 offshore
- Offshore. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-257-07003-3 .
- 2018 Σεμινάρια φονικής γραφής
- Three graces. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-07041-5 .
- 2019 Η εποχή της υποκρισίας
Other works
- 2004 Η Αθήνα πρωτεύουσα των Βαλκανίων (stories including with Commissioner Kostas Charitos)
- Balkan blues. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-06488-8 .
- 2006 Κατ 'εξακολούθηση (autobiographical and essays)
- Repeat Offenders A life between Athens, Vienna and Istanbul. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-06639-5 .
- Across Athens. A journey from Piraeus to Kifisia. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Hanser 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23560-1 .
- Dark times: The crisis in Greece. Diogenes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-06836-8 .
- 2015 Τριημερία και άλλα διηγήματα
- The death of Odysseus. German by Michaela Prinzinger. Diogenes, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-257-06979-2 .
literature
- Petros Markaris: On the streets of Athens. In: Achim Engelberg : But where does Europe end? Border crosser between London and Ankara (= In the abyss of the 20th century). Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02132-0 , pp. 132-147.
Movie
- “Athenian underworld. The writer Petros Markaris ”. Film by Vera Botterbusch , 45 min., Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2002.
- "Petros Markaris - My Athens". Film by Günter Schilhan (from the ORF / 3sat series "Inter-City Spezial"), 45 min., ORF / 3sat, 2011.
Awards and honors
- 2005: German Crime Award for Live in the International category
- 2013: Prix du polar européen for liquidations à la grecque (German: Bad Loans )
- 2013: Goethe Medal from the Goethe Institute
- 2014: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class
Web links
- Literature by and about Petros Markaris in the catalog of the German National Library
- Petros Markaris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Brief reviews on Perlentaucher.de
- Petros Makaris on a crime thriller couch
Individual evidence
- ^ Ta Nea, September 4, 2010
- ↑ Greece Newspaper No. 117 of February 6, 2008.
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk of June 12, 2008: “Autobiography of a repeat offender” - review
- ↑ NZZamSonntag, supplement books on Sunday, pp. 12-14 (from August 30, 2009)
- ^ The winners of the Goethe Medal 2013: S. Mahmoud Hosseini Zad, Naveen Kishore and Petros Markaris
- ↑ Petros Markaris receives the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 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. on greece.diplo.de
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Markaris, Petros |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |