Grytzko Mascioni

Grytzko Mascioni (born December 1, 1936 in Villa di Tirano , Italy ; † September 12, 2003 in Nice ) was a Swiss writer and journalist (with hometown Brusio ). He wrote around 50 works in Italian ; so far none has been translated into German.

He grew up in the Poschiavo , in the Engadin and in the Valtellina , completed his Matura in Sondrio and studied law in Milan . From 1961 to 1991 he worked as an editor and author at RTSI and thus played a key role in the development of Italian-language Swiss television. He also worked in the editorial department of the Gazzetta Ticinese . From 1991 to 1996 he headed the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Zagreb .

Mascioni was president of the Writers' Association of Italian-speaking Switzerland and the PEN-Club della Svizzera italiana e Retoromancia . In 1987 he chaired the 50th congress of the international PEN Club in Lugano .

He has been awarded numerous prizes, most recently in 2000 with the Grand Schiller Prize . The Swiss Literary Archives acquired his estate in 2008 .

literature

• Manuela Camponovo: Grytzko Mascioni . In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero. Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1194 f. (Italian)
• Fernando Iseppi: Grytzko Mascioni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 29, 2009 , accessed December 7, 2019 .
• Giorgio Luzzi: Grytzko Mascioni. In: Giorgio Luzzi (ed.): Poesia italiana 1941–1988: la via lombarda. Diciannove poeti contemporanei scelti, antologizzati e introdotti da Giorgio Luzzi (“Italian poetry 1941–1988: the Lombard way. Nineteen contemporary poets selected, anthologized and introduced by Giorgio Luzzi”), Giampiero Casagrande Editore, Lugano 1989, ISBN 88-7795-031 -5 , pp. 155-164. See also the introductory essay (“Introduzione”) to the collection, pp. 21–22. (Italian)
• Translated poetic anthology: Le coeur en herbe (French) - selection, template, translation Jean-Charles Vegliante - Paris-Lausanne, L'âge d'homme, 1987.

Web links

• Publications by and about Grytzko Mascioni in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Grytzko Mascioni's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Entry about Grytzko Mascioni in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Grytzko Mascioni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory (Italian)
• The place of time and the lost meaning , German version of a short story by Grytzko Mascioni (PDF; 46 kB)