Radka Donnell

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Radka Donnell (2003)

Radka Donnell , born as Radka Zagoroff , (born November 24, 1928 in Sofia , Bulgaria ; † February 13, 2013 ) was a German-speaking poet , also a narrator and publicist .

Life

Radka Donnell was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1928. She spent the war years in Germany and emigrated to the USA in 1951 . After graduating from Stanford University in 1954, Donnell became a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder .

She earned a special reputation as a patchwork and quilt artist.

Radka Donnell wrote poems in German and English.

She was married to the Swiss architecture critic Adolf Max Vogt , who died a month before her. She was the mother of two daughters and lived in Zurich .

Awards / honors / prizes (selection)

  • Work year of the city of Zurich (1999)

Main publications

Individual volumes of poetry

  • Passion Passage , bilingual: German-Bulgarian, with drawings by Hanny Fries, Plovdiv 1993
  • am Walensee , bilingual: German-Bulgarian, Plovdiv 1994
  • the spring book , Plovdiv 1994
  • next year , poems 1991–1995, Schwandorf 1995
  • the Goldberg variations , Plovdiv 1997
  • not dreamed up , Zurich 2004

Radka Donnel is represented in numerous anthologies in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, also in Kisses and Roses in a hurry. The foreign-language Swiss literature , A reading book, Zurich 1998

prose

  • The last Héloise , Roman, Zurich 2000
  • Monet's "Nympheas" - love closeness , Zurich 2005

Works in English

  • Quilts As Women's Art. A Quilt Poetics , Gallerie Pubns 1990
  • Adolf Wölfli , by Daniel Baumann and Radka Donnell, Ithaca & London 1997
  • Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archeology of Modernism , by Adolf Max Vogt and Radka Donnell, Cambridge, Mass. & London, England 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Roman Bucheli: On the death of the poet Radka Donnell. Against the dialect of silence. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 22, 2013
  2. ↑ Vita of Radka Donnell ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Lyrikwelt, accessed on December 16, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de

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personal data
SURNAME Donnell, Radka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zagoroff, Radka (maiden name); Vogt, Radka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2013