Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou

Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou (born June 6, 1946 in Lomé , Togo ) is a Togolese author who has lived in Bayreuth as a political refugee since 1993 . There he works as a research assistant and director of the International Atelier Theater at the University of Bayreuth .

He studied literature and theater studies in Lomé, Paris and Bordeaux and directed the Togolese theater company from 1978 to 1993. Here he showed himself to be a sharp critic of the then President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and therefore had to leave the country in 1993. In 1989 he received his doctorate from the University of Bordeaux . From 1987 to 1990 he was also President of the Association Togolaise des Gens de Lettres .

Works

• Yévi and the Princesses, in Gudrun Honke, ed .: Die Mondfrau. 23 new stories from French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Translator Beeke Drummer. Peter Hammer Verlag , Wuppertal 1998, ISBN 3872948059 , pp. 131–152 (first published; with short biography)
  • Yévi et L'éléphant Chanteur.
• On joue la comédie. Paris 1975
• La Tortue Qui Chante.
• Le Médicament. Paris 2003

Working on Zinsou

• Sélom Komlan Gbanou: Un theater au confluent des genres . Frankfurt am Main 2002

Web links

• Unrast publishing house
• Christina Felschen: The rule of the game. Sénouvo Agbota Zinsous political theater. ( Memento of October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Rencontres , October 22, 2007.
• Literature by and about Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou in the catalog of the German National Library