Ranko Marinković

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Ranko Marinković (born February 22, 1913 on the island of Vis , † January 28, 2001 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian writer .

Life

Marinković attended grammar schools in Split and Zagreb. In Zagreb he studied 1931-1935 at the philosophical faculty. At the end of the 1930s he published his first prose texts in the journal Pečat by Miroslav Krleža . During the Second World War, Marinković was arrested by the Italians in occupied Split and interned in the Ferramonte camp in Calabria. After the collapse of fascist Italy, he made his way to Bari and from there to the El Shatt refugee camp. After the war he became director of the drama department at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb in 1946 and has taught at the Academy for Theater Studies there since 1951. His most important works were created during this time. After Croatia's independence, he was a supporter and member of the HDZ of Franjo Tuđman .

Works translated into German

  • Hands. Stories (translated by Helga Brauner and Klaus Birkenauer), Steingrüben Verlag: Stuttgart, 1962
  • Carnival. (translated by Angelika Schulz and Barbara Sparing, with an afterword by Barbara Antkowiak ), Verlag Volk und Welt: Berlin 1973 ( Spektrum Vol. 62)
  • Hands. A short story and a treatise (translated by Nadja Grbić, with an afterword by Nenad Popović), Residenz Verlag Salzburg and Vienna: 1989
  • Hands. Novellas (translated by Nadja Grbić and Klaus Detlef Olof), Wieser: Klagenfurt 2008

Other works

Marinković dealt mainly with the theater, he wrote numerous plays himself, worked and taught about the theater, wrote theater reviews and essays. In addition, he was also one of the most important prose writers after the war.

  • Albatros , grotesque 1939
  • Proze , short stories 1948
  • Ni braća ni rođaci , 1949
  • Oko Božje , 1949
  • Geste i grimase , Essays 1951
  • Pod balkonima , short stories 1953
  • Ruke , Stories 1953 (German hands, 1961)
  • Glorija , spiritual drama 1955
  • Poniženje Sokrata , short stories 1959
  • Kiklop , Roman 1965; Dramatization 1976; Film adaptations: Yugoslavia 1982 (director: A. Vrdoljak), Yugoslavia 1983 (director: A. Vrdoljak, TV series)
  • Politeia , Comedy 1977
  • Zajednička kupka , novel 1980
  • Pustinja , Posse 1982
  • Nevesele oči klauna , Essays 1986
  • Never more , novel 1993

literature

  • Renate Hansen-Kokoruš: Intertextuality in the work of Ranko Marinković , 2002 (habilitation thesis, University of Mannheim, 1998)
personal data
SURNAME Marinković, Ranko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vis
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2001
Place of death Zagreb