Roberto Ampuero

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Roberto Ampuero (2008)

Roberto Ampuero Espinoza (* 1953 in Valparaíso ) is a Chilean writer , columnist and diplomat .

Life

School time and studies

Roberto Ampuero Espinoza was born into a middle class family and attended the German School in Valparaiso (DSV). Looking back on his school days, he wrote: "The DSV taught me to be disciplined and conscientious in what I do, not to waste time, to face difficult situations, to live simply, simply and to live in other cultures." he studied anthropology (mornings) and literature (afternoons) at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile and joined the Communist Youth of Chile .

exile

Roberto Ampuero during an interview with the PUCV broadcaster.

In December 1973, three months after the military coup , Roberto Ampuero was able to travel to the GDR thanks to a scholarship to study at the journalism section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . There he met Margarita Flores, the daughter of the Cuban attorney general. In 1974 Roberto Ampuero and Margarita Flores moved to Cuba and got married. Their marriage lasted only three years. His experiences soon shook the image of Cuba with which Ampuero had come to the country. “The government despised the opposition and turned them into enemies. I came from a country where there was a tradition of dialogue and freedom. ... [The Cuban government] had the opposition arrested, shot and driven out of the country. ... When I came to Cuba, it turned out that the government treated the opposition in the same way [like the dictatorship in Chile]. "

After five years in Cuba, Ampuero returned to the GDR in 1979. He studied Marxism-Leninism for a year at the FDJ youth college "Wilhelm Pieck" (JHSWP), then, from 1980 to 1983, literary studies and political economy at the Humboldt University and also worked as a translator and occasionally as a reviewer for the Neues Leben publishing house for translations of Latin American literature.

In 1983 Ampuero left the GDR and moved to the Federal Republic. He worked as a correspondent for the Inter Press Service news agency until 1991 , since 1987 for the magazine E + Z Development and Cooperation , of which he was editor-in-chief from 1990 to 1993, and from 1990 to 1993 for the Spanish-language editorial team of Deutsche Welle .

In 1984 Roberto Ampuero published a volume with stories under the title “A Kangaroo in Bernau” in the Aufbau-Verlag, followed in 1986 by the Berlin children's book publisher Der Pfirsichkrieg . His first novel ¿Quién mató a Cristián Kustermann? (German title The Key is in Bonn ) was published in 1993, the first in a series of detective novels with the detective Cayetano Brulé as the title hero. In the same year, Ampuero was awarded the El Mercurio book prize for this. Since then, four more novels have appeared in this series, most recently in 2008 El caso Neruda . Other of his works include Nuestros años verde olivo from 1999, a semi-autobiographical novel about his exile in Cuba, and the novels Los amantes de Estocolmo (Book of the Year 2003 in Chile) and Pasiones griegas (awarded as "Best Spanish-language novel of 2006 "from The People's Publishing House of China, Beijing). His novels have appeared in Latin America and Spain and have been translated into German, French, English, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek and Croatian.

In 1987 Roberto Ampuero married Ana Lucrecia Rivera Schwarz. From 1989 to 1999 she was the Guatemalan ambassador to Germany .

Return to Chile

Roberto Ampuero, 2018

1993 returned Roberto Ampuero to his homeland back and live there as a freelance writer and columnist for the newspaper La Tercera and El Mercurio , interrupted by a stay in Sweden and studying at the University of Iowa , where he in 2006 with a dissertation on Jorge Edwards received his doctorate and where he was also a lecturer in Spanish.

From 2011 to 2013 Ampuero was the Chilean ambassador to Mexico . In June 2013 he was appointed President of the Chilean Culture Council (Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile) with ministerial rank. From March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019, Roberto Ampuero was Chilean Foreign Minister in the Sebastián Piñera government . He has been the Chilean ambassador to Spain since September 2019.

Works

Fiction

  • 1984: A kangaroo in Bernau , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin.
    • Spanish translation 2001: El hombre golondrina , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
  • 1986: The Peach War , children's book publisher, Berlin.
    • Spanish translation 2001: La guerra de los duraznos , Editorial Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile.
  • 1993: ¿Quién mató a Cristián Kustermann? , Editorial Planeta.
    • German translation 1994: The key is in Bonn , Eisbär-Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1994: Boleros en La Habana , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
    • German translation 1997: Bolero in Havanna , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin.
  • 1996: El alemán de Atacama , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
    • German translation 2012: Death in the Atacama , Bloomsbury, Berlin.
  • 1999: Nuestros años verde olivo , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
  • 2003: Los amantes de Estocolmo , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
  • 2004: Cita en el Azul Profundo , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
  • 2005: Halcones de la noche , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
  • 2006: Pasiones griegas , Editorial Planeta, Santiago de Chile.
  • 2008: El caso Neruda , Editorial Norma.
    • German translation 2009: The Neruda case , Bloomsbury, Berlin.
  • 2012: El último tango de Salvador Allende , Plaza Janés, Barcelona.

Literary studies

  • 2006: La historia como conjetura. La narrativa de Jorge Edwards , Editorial Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile.

Web links

Commons : Roberto Ampuero  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El Mercurio : http://www.emol.com/especiales/colegios/ex_alumnos.htm Los mejores colegios de Chile. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ Raquel Correa. Ampuero: Yo reclamo el derecho a ser converso . In: El Mercurio, November 28, 2009.
  3. ↑ Interview with Marcelo Soto. In: Revista Capital (Santiago de Chile), issue 236, September 5, 2008.
  4. ↑ Doris Wieser: The Latin American detective novel around the turn of the millennium. Types and contexts . Lit, Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-643-11688-8 . P. 145.
  5. ↑ Federal archive, holdings Ministry of Culture of the GDR, HV publishers and book trade : Print approval processes: Print approval processes for publications by publishers in the GDR 1947 - 1991 ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  6. ↑ Felipe Saleh: El sendero luminoso de Roberto Ampuero . In: La Nación (Santiago de Chile), February 23, 2004.
  7. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/historia-como-conjetura-la-narrativa-de-jorge-edwards/oclc/71832369&referer=brief_results , accessed on November 18, 2013.
  8. ^ Ministro de Cultura, Roberto Ampuero , accessed November 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ https://chile.gob.cl/espana/sobre-la-embajada/quienes-somos/embajador . accessed on May 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ampuero, Roberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ampuero Espinoza, Roberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean writer, columnist, university professor and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso