Matei Vișniec

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Matei Vișniec (2010)
Matei Vișniec (2010)

Matei Vișniec (born January 29, 1956 in Rădăuți , Romania ) is a Romanian-French author and journalist .

Life

Matei Vişniec was born in 1956 as the son of an accountant and a teacher in Rădăuți. From 1976 to 1980 he studied history and philosophy at the University of Bucharest , after which he worked as a history teacher. In 1977 he began writing poetry and plays. During a stay in France in 1987 he applied for political asylum. From 1988 to 1989 Vișniec worked in London as broadcast editor for the BBC . He then settled in Paris and wrote his dissertation on cultural resistance against the communist regimes of Eastern Europe at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . In 1993 he received French citizenship. In addition to his literary work, Vișniec works for the French international broadcaster RFI .

Literary work

In 1972 Matei Vișniec made his national debut with poems in the literary magazine Luceafărul . Between 1980 and 1987 he published three volumes of poetry and was a co-founder of the literary circle on Monday (Cenaclului de Luni). In 1984 he became a member of the Romanian Writers' Union USR (Uniunea Scriitorilor din România). For his third volume of poetry Înţeleptul la ora de ceai he received the USR Prize in 1985. His plays and scripts, written between 1977 and 1987, however, were not approved for performance or publication by the cultural authorities of the Socialist Republic of Romania . In his work Vișniec clearly distinguished himself from Socialist Realism and, influenced by Surrealism , Dadaism , absurd theater and magical realism , turned to postmodernism . Since he moved to France, Vișniec has mainly written in French. His often tragicomic pieces have so far been translated into more than 30 languages, regularly performed at international festivals and received numerous prizes. In Romania he has been one of the most played playwrights since the political upheaval in 1989 . In 1996 the National Theater and Opera House Timișoara organized a Matei Vișniec Festival . In the German-speaking countries Vișniec became known in 2002 with the play The story of communism retold for the mentally ill . In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from Ovidius University, Constanța, for his literary work .

Works (selection)

Lyric:

  • La noapte va ninge (It will snow this night), 1980
  • Oraşul cu un singur locuitor, 1982
  • Înţeleptul la ora de ceai, 1984
  • La ville d'un seul habitant, 2010
  • A table avec Marx, 2013

Drama:

  • Angajare de clovn, 1986
  • The Pit, 1989
  • Spectatorul condamnat la moarte (death sentence for the spectator), 1991
  • Buzunarul cu pîine (Bags full of bread), 1993
  • L'histoire des ours pandas racontée par un saxophoniste qui a une petite amie à Francfort (The story of the pandas), 1994
  • Paparazzi ou La chronique d'un lever de soleil avorté (Paparazzi), 1995
  • Du sexe de la femme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie (The gender of women as a battlefield), 1996
  • L'histoire du communisme racontée pour les malades mentaux (The story of communism retold for the mentally ill), 2000
  • Le mot progrès dans la bouche de ma mère sonnait terriblement faux (The word progress sounded terribly wrong from my mother's mouth), 2004
  • La vieille dame qui fabrique 37 cocktails molotov par jour (The old lady who makes 37 Molotov cocktails every day), 2009

Prose:

  • Cafeneaua Pas-Parol, 1992
  • Sindromul de panică în orașul Luminilor, 2009
  • Domnul K Eliberat, 2010

Awards (selection)

1985 - Poetry Prize of the Romanian Writers' Union for Înţeleptul la ora de ceai
1991 - Prize of the Romanian Theater Society for Angajare de clovn
1991 - Prize of the Jury of the Festival Les Journées d'Auteurs for Caii la fereastră
1994 - Prize of the French Authors and Composers Association ( SACD ) for L'histoire des ours pandas ...
1995, 1996, 2008 and 2009 - Prix du Club de la presse Avignon Off
1998 - Drama Prize of the Academia Română
1999, 2002 and 2007 -
Drama Prize of the Romanian Writers' Association 2002 - National Drama Prize of the Romanian Ministry of Culture
2009 - Prix ​​Européen of the SACD
2014 - Dr. hc from Ovidius University, Constanța

Web links

Commons : Matei Visniec  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.romlit.ro
  2. ↑ http://main.rri.ro/de_de/matei_visniec_die_wiederkehr_und_rache_des_wortes-23998 (German)
  3. ↑ http://visniec.com/poetry.html (English)
  4. ↑ http://www.theaterstueckverlag.de/Autoren/autoren/bioA/visniec_mat/showAut (German)
  5. ↑ http://www.rfi.ro/stiri-cultura-52903-matei-visniec-doctor-honoris-causa-al-universitatii-ovidius-constanta (Romanian)
  6. ↑ http://visniec.com/biography.html (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vișniec, Matei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matéi Visniec, Matéï Visniec
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-born French author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Rădăuți