Milena Oda

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Milena Oda (born March 15, 1975 in Jičín , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech German-speaking writer .

Life

Milena Oda grew up in Stará Paka and attended a middle school in Litomyšl . Her mother tongue is Czech, self-study she acquired the German language and started later at the University of Olomouc , German and history to study.

She continued her studies in Romance studies , English and theater studies in Bayreuth , Salzburg , Klagenfurt and Düsseldorf. In Klagenfurt she also worked as a dramaturgy and assistant director at the local theater . At the same time she began to write her own literary texts in German. In 2001 she completed her studies with a master's degree in Olomouc and then lived in Düsseldorf. There she works at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as a dramaturgy intern with Jürgen Gosch . Together with director Burkhard C. Kosminski , she worked as an assistant on the film Dancer in the Dark in a Czech-German theater performance of the same name. During this time, Milena Oda began composing her play More than the Sea .

She has lived in Berlin for several years now , as a freelance writer and translator from 2008 and in New York since 2011 . She mainly writes prose in German, but she is also the author of poetry , essays , narrative works and plays in German, Czech and English. Numerous publications in literary journals followed, including magazines and journals such as Ostragehege , Lose Blätter , Volltext , Lauter nobody and Umlaut . She also works as a translator and author for WDR 3 , the Prague newspaper , Literární noviny and Idnes.cz (Kavarna).

Awards

Awards and nominations:

  • 2007 - Nomination for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt / Austria with the text Der Briefschreiber
  • 2006 - Winner of the anonymous literature competition Marguerite d'Or within the framework of the Vienna Literature Festival with the narrative on every step
  • 2006 - nomination for the sponsorship award of the city of Düsseldorf
  • 2005 - Nomination for the theater prize of the Alfred Radoks Foundation (Prague) with the play More than the Sea
  • 2003 - nomination of the play Schöne Aussichten or Mehr als Meer at Drama Köln
  • 2002 - Nomination for the literature competition of German-speaking authors Open Mike, with the narration at every turn , organized by the Berlin Literature Workshop

Milena Oda has received numerous grants and invitations:

Works

  • Call me a servant . Novel. Typostudio Schumachergebler, Dresden 2011
  • Ferenc. Declaration of love to the shoes . Narration / prose. Verzone, Praha 2011 (German / Czech edition)
  • More than the sea . Bilingual (German / Arabic) play. Edition Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt 2009. IACT in Alexandria. As part of the theater festival The Creativ Forum for Independent Theatergroups .
  • Pi square . Narration / prose. Bibliophile edition, produced by Andreas Hegewald . Buchenpresse, Dresden 2007
  • Pěkné vyhlídky (More than the sea). Play. Větrné Mlýny, Brno 2006

Her works and prose poems have been translated into Arabic (Egypt), Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain), Russian (Russia) and Czech (Czech Republic).

Translations

literature

  • Thomas Fiedler, Háta Hlavatá: Unknown acquaintances: contemporary art and literature from Prague: Karel Cudlín, Lubomír Typlt, Viktor Pivovarov, Jáchym Topol, Milena Oda, Milena Slavická , on the occasion of the exhibition at the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg , 2005
  • Renata Cornejo: Heimat im Wort: on the language change of Czech authors writing in German after 1968. An inventory , Praesens, Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0602-9 , pp. 19 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Oda, Milena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Jičín