Radka Denemarková
Radka Denemarková (born March 14, 1968 in Kutná Hora ) is a Czech writer, translator and journalist.
Life
Radka Denemarková studied German and Bohemian Studies at Charles University in Prague and received her doctorate in 1997. She worked at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic . During this time she was an advisor to the Divadlo Na zábradlí . She is a consultant for the German language for television reports and publishes reviews and reviews on literary topics in the magazines "Tvar" and "Česká literatura".
In her work Denemarková deals with dark and repressed sides of European history, such as the expulsion of Germans after the Second World War, anti-Semitism or patriarchal structures and the associated violence against women.
Awards
In 2007 she received the Czech Magnesia Litera Award in the prose category for her book Peníze Od Hitlera . In 2009 she was again awarded this prize for her biography Smrt, nebudeš se báti aneb Příběh Petra Lébla by the theater director Petr Lébl . In 2009 she was on the list of nominations for the Josef Škvorecký Prize for the same book .
- 2011: Magnesia Litera for her translation of Atemschaukel by Herta Müller
- 2011: Usedomer Literature Prize , together with her translator Eva Profousová
- 2012: Georg Dehio Book Prize (honorary prize) of the German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe for her book Ein Herrlicher Flecken Erde (together with the translator Eva Profousová )
- 2019: HC Artmann grant
- 2019: Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize
Works
- Evald Schorm : Sám sobě nepřitelem . Nadace Divadla Na zábradlí , Praha 1998, ISBN 80-238-3679-X .
- Zlatá šedesátá: česká literatura a společnost v letech tání, kolotání a zklamání: 16.-18.6.1999 [v Praze] : materiály z konference. Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Praha 2000, ISBN 80-85778-27-0 (German: Golden Sixties, Czech Literature and Society in the Thaw Years, Confusion and Disappointment , Materials from the 1999 Prague Conference).
- A já pořád kdo to tluče, temná komedie , novel. Petrov, Brno 2005, ISBN 80-7227-219-5 .
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Peníze od Hitlera. Letní mozaika ( Money from Hitler ), Roman, Host, Brno 2006, ISBN 80-7294-185-2 .
- A wonderful piece of earth (translated from the Czech by Eva Profousová). DVA, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04404-4 .
- Smrt, nebudeš se báti aneb Příběh Petra Lébla , Roman, Host, Brno 2008, ISBN 978-80-7294-288-6 .
- Spací vady , drama, WP : Divadlo Na zábradlí, Praha 2010; Acropolis 2012, ISBN 978-80-7470-006-4 .
- Leprechaun. Přebytky něhy. Přebytky lidí, double novel , host, Brno 2011, ISBN 978-80-7294-506-1 .
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Příspěvek k dějinám radosti . Brno: Host, 2014
- A contribution to the history of joy: a novel . Translation Eva Profousová. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2019 ISBN 978-3-455-00511-0
Translations
- Herta Müller : Cestovní pas , novela (German: Man is a great pheasant in the world ). Mladá Fronta, Praha 2010 ISBN 978-80-204-2192-0 .
- Herta Müller: Rozhoupaný dech (German: Atemschaukel ). Mladá Fronta, Praha 2010, ISBN 978-80-204-2193-7 .
literature
- Peter Demetz : Das Dorf und die Deutsche In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 21, 2010, p. 30.
Web links
- Literature by and about Radka Denemarková in the catalog of the German National Library
- Zuzana Malá: Radka Denemarková , at slovnik ceske literatury, 2012 (cs)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slovník české literatury [Dictionary of Czech Literature], online: slovnikceskeliteratury.cz , Czech, accessed on January 30, 2010
- ↑ Radka Denemarková: A contribution to the history of joy in Ö1 on February 28, 2019
- ↑ Alena Wagnerová : Das Karussell der Feindschaft , book review, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 3, 2009, p. 50.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denemarková, Radka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech, German-speaking writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kutná Hora , Czechoslovakia |