Orsolya Kalasz

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Orsolya Kalász (born 1964 in Dunaújváros ) is a Hungarian poet and literary translator who lives in Budapest and Berlin and has her works bilingual .

Life

Orsolya Kalász grew up bilingual. Her father, the Hungarian writer and poet Márton Kalász , worked at the “House of Hungarian Culture” in East Berlin in the early 1970s , and Orsolya attended German elementary school there until 1974. After graduating from high school in Hungary, she studied German, Hungarian literature and linguistics at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest . In 1984 she started publishing. Since 1995 she has lived and worked in Berlin. Sometimes she writes her own poetry in Hungarian and sometimes in German. She translates her own texts into the second language herself, which turns out to be more of a variation.

Her volume of poetry Das Eine was recognized by the jury of the Peter Huchel Prize in 2017 as an “outstanding new publication 2016” and she was awarded the prize for it. In the jury's statement, Orsolya Kalász says that "the amazement that is at the beginning of all poetry comes into its own" and that her poetics are described as open, questioning and exposing themselves to strangers.

As a translator , she works on new poetry in the Hungarian language, often in collaboration with the German poet Monika Rinck since 2000 .

Works

  • The one thing , poems. Berlin: Brüterich Press 2016 ISBN 978-3-945229-09-5
  • everything that becomes, wants its bush: Ami volt, még bokor akar lenni , poems. Frankfurt, M.: Gutleut-Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3-936826-66-1 . With an essay by Monika Rinck
  • I have no choice but to find a garden: Más választásom nem marad mint találni egy ketzt , poems. Drawings by Jutta Obenhuber. Frankfurt, M.: Gutleut Verlag 2006 ISBN 978-3-936826-43-2
  • Baby monsters and the gardeners: Babarém és a kertészek , poems. Leipzig: Connewitzer Verl.-Buchh. 1997 ISBN 3-928833-71-5

Translations and editing

  • László G. István: Sand Fugue: Poems . Translated from the Hungarian by Orsolya Kalász and Monika Rinck. Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude, 2009 ISBN 978-3-937158-47-1
  • János Térey: KaltWasserKult  : Poems from the Hungarian. by Orsolya Kalász and Monika Rinck Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude 2007 ISBN 978-3-937158-28-0
  • István Kemény , Useful ruins: 23 poems . German, Hungarian (Célszerű romok). Selected by Orsolya Kalász and Monika Rinck. Frankfurt am Main: Gutleut-Verlag, 2007 ISBN 978-3-936826-64-7
  • Budapest scenes, Young Hungarian poetry , edited with Gerhard Falkner , Cologne: Dumont, 1999 ISBN 3-7701-4971-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Huchel Prize 2017 for Orsolya Kalász. Fixpoetry, January 22, 2017, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Orsolya Kalász (2017) | Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Information on the translated Hungarian poets is available in the Hungarian Wikipedia: hu: G. István László ; hu: Térey János ; hu: Karafiáth Orsolya ; hu: Tolnai Ottó
personal data
SURNAME Kalász, Orsolya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunaújváros