Ronya Othmann

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Ronya Othmann at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2019

Ronya Othmann (born January 12, 1993 in Munich ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Ronya Othmann grew up in the Freising district , where she graduated from the Camerloher High School in 2012 . Then she began training at the International Munich Art Lab and at the Swiss Literature Institute of the University of the Arts in Biel . In 2013 she took part in the Wolfenbüttel Literature Laboratory . She has been studying at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig since 2014 . There she organized the Kurdish Film Days in 2015. In 2018 she was a juror at the " Duhok International Film Festival" in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq.

Ronya Othmann writes prose, poems and essays. Her first works appeared in BELLA triste and in the yearbook of poetry . Together with Yevgeniy Breyger , Özlem Özgül Dündar and others, she published the poetry anthology View of the shining roots from below in 2017 . In August 2020, Hanser Verlag published her debut novel Die Sommer , which uses a family history to reflect the civil war in Syria and the murder of the Yazidis by the Islamic State . She also published journalistic texts in media such as Der Spiegel , taz or Zeit Online .

At the invitation of Insa Wilke Ronya Othmann took June 2019 at the 43rd Festival of German literature (Ingeborg Bachmann Prize) in Klagenfurt part and read her lines there Seventy-four , of the genocide of Yazidis has as its object. Your contribution won the audience award. With that, Ronya Othmann also became Klagenfurt city clerk for six months. The scholarship started in May 2020.

Political positions

In the daily newspaper taz , Othmann and Cemile Sahin wrote a column entitled “Orient Express”. In the column she expresses criticism of attributions in particular and calls for attention to be paid to marginalized groups. She sees identity politics as a “means of the minorities” that should be retained as a method of debate.

Othmann criticizes romanticizing ideas about Kurdistan . She argues that Kurdistan should not be a projection screen for right or left politics, the Kurds are "not a fighting folk dance group, but a politically, religiously and socially heterogeneous ethnic group in the Middle East." In addition, Othmann demands that the political left should not make Islamism a taboo subject; Islamism was not just a reaction to colonialism , but existed before. The “reflexes of silence and trivialization of the left” are dangerous, since the subject is left to “reactionary forces for their narratives” and at the same time the victims of political Islam are ignored.

Awards

Publications

  • Ronya Othmann, lead casting . In: Michael Hametner (ed.), Schnee im August. The best stories from the 2015 MDR literary competition . Poetenladen, Leipzig 2015. ISBN 978-3-940691-70-5
  • Yevgeniy Breyger, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Alexander cap, Ronya Othmann, Sibylla Vričić Hausmann , Saskia Warzecha (eds.), View of the glowing roots from below. Poetry from the German-language literary institutes. Poetenladen, Leipzig 2017. ISBN 978-3-940691-79-8
  • Özlem Özgül Dündar, Ronya Othmann, Mia Göhring, Lea Sauer (eds.), FLEXEN. Flâneusen * write cities (including poems by Ronya Othmann). Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-406-1
  • Ronya Othmann: The summer. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-446-26760-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.lilawo.de/laboranten
  2. ↑ price for Ronya Othmann , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ 7th Duhok International Film Festival: World Cinema Jury , duhokiff.com (accessed June 30, 2019).
  4. ↑ Ronya Othmann: Summers , Hanser literature publishers (called August 19, 2020).
  5. ↑ Ronya Othmann , lyrikline.org (accessed July 1, 2019).
  6. ↑ Full text , orf.at (accessed June 30, 2019).
  7. ↑ Ronya Othmann, Cemile Sahin: Column Orient Express. In: taz.de. taz, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ There must be no silence. In: taz.de. November 21, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Through wild German Kurdistan. In: taz.de. September 11, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Dangerous silence. In: taz.de. December 17, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .

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SURNAME Othmann, Ronya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich