Menis Koumandareas
Menis Koumandareas ( Greek Μένης Κουμανταρέας ; * January 4, 1931 in Athens ; † December 5, 2014 ibid) was a Greek writer .
Life
Koumandareas was a representative of social realism in Greek prose. After dropping out of his studies, he worked for several years in shipping companies and insurance companies before devoting himself entirely to literature as a freelance writer in 1982 in his native city of Athens, which he has hardly ever left and which is often the setting for his stories. He first drew attention to himself in the Greek literary scene in 1962 with his book of short stories Ta mihanakia . Koumandareas has received several Greek literary prizes for his short stories and novels (1967, 1976, 2002). His novel I fanella me to 9 ( Η φανέλλα με το 9 , dt. The jersey with the 9) was filmed in 1988 by Pantelis Voulgaris . In 1972 he was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
On December 6, 2014, Menis Koumandareas was found dead in his Athens apartment. The police assume a murder of the 83-year-old writer.
Works
His work includes the following novels, short stories and short stories, only a small part of which has so far been translated into German:
- 1962 Τα Μηχανάκια (Eng. The Mopeds)
- 1972 Τα Καημένα
- 1975 Βιοτεχνία Υαλικών (German glass factory, 1985), 1976 with the state book award (Κρατικό Βραβείο Μυθιστορήματος) awarded
- 1978 Η κυρία Κούλα
- 1979 Το Κουρείο
- 1981 Σεραφείμ και Χερουβείμ
- 1982 Ο Ωραίος Λοχαγός (Eng. The beautiful captain, 2001)
- 1986 Η Φανέλα με το εννιά (German: The Jersey with the Nine), filmed in 1988 by Pantelis Voulgaris
- 1989 Πλανόδιος σαλπιγκτής
- 1993 Η συμμορία της άρπας
- 1994 Θυμάμαι την Μαρία
- 1996 Η μυρωδιά τους με κάνει και κλαίω
- German by Laura Gertrud Steuer: Mein fantastischer Frisiersalon, Hanholz, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-932622-83-9 .
- 2001 Δυό φορές Έλληνας (German Twice Greek)
- 2003 Νώε
- 2006 Η γυναίκα που πετάει
- 2008 Το show είναι των Ελλήνων
- 2009 Σ΄ένα στρατόπεδο άκρη στην ερημιά
- 2010 Ξεχασμένη Φρουρά
- 2011 Οι αλεπούδες του Γκόσπορτ
- 2013 Θάνατος στο Βαλπαραΐζο
- 2014 Ο θησαυρός του χρόνου
He also produced numerous translations of foreign authors, including Alberto Moravia , Ernest Hemingway , James Joyce , William Faulkner , Herman Melville , Hermann Hesse , Carson McCullers , Lewis Carroll , Georg Büchner , Edgar Allan Poe , F. Scott Fitzgerald .
literature
- Peter Mackridge, Eleni Yannakakis: Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe (2004), ISBN 1-90075585-8
- Pavlos Tzermias : The new Greek literature , A. Francke Verlag Tübingen and Basel (2001), ISBN 3-7720-1736-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Menis Koumandareas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Menis Koumandareas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ (Demosthenes Kourtovik): Μένης Κουμανταρέας (Menis Koumandareas). In: Έλληνες Μεταπολεμικοί συγγραφείς (Greek post-war writers). deyteros.gr, 1995, archived from the original on October 30, 2004 ; Retrieved December 9, 2014 (Greek).
- Greek culture.de : short biography of Menis Koumandareas (© international literature festival berlin)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin artist program. Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
- ↑ welt.de: Greek author Menis Koumandareas murders article from December 6, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koumandareas, Menis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Κουμανταρέας, Μένης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 2014 |
| Place of death | Athens |