Saša Stanišić

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Saša Stanišić (2019)

Saša Stanišić ([ saʃa ˈstaniʃit͡ɕ ]; born March 7, 1978 in Višegrad , Yugoslavia ) is a German-speaking writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina . Among other things, he has won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize ( Vor dem Fest , 2014) and the German Book Prize ( Origin , 2019).

life and work

Saša Stanišić was born in 1978 in Višegrad, a small town in eastern Bosnia , as the son of a Bosniak politics professor and a Serbian business economist. After the occupation of Višegrad by Bosnian-Serbian troops as part of the Bosnian War , his parents fled with him in 1992 to an uncle in Heidelberg who was working there as a guest worker. His mother found work in a laundry while his father worked in construction; In 1998 the parents emigrated to the USA .

Stanišić lived in the Heidelberg district of Emmertsgrund and attended the Heidelberg International Comprehensive School , where his literary talent was encouraged by his German teacher, and after completing the preparatory class he switched to the grammar school branch. After graduating from high school in 1997, he studied German as a foreign language and Slavic studies at the University of Heidelberg . During his studies, more and more literary texts were written, and “the childhood dream of 'just writing' grew bigger and bigger”.

In 2004, Stanišić was awarded the Jürgen Fritzenschaft Prize of Heidelberg University for his master's thesis on Wolf Haas . In the 2004/2005 winter semester he began studying at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . In 2005 he was with what we are playing in the basement ... the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize represented. The autobiographical tale, which recalls the war in ex- Yugoslavia from the perspective of a child, received the Kelag Audience Award . In 2005 he was also a participant in a writing workshop in the manor house in Edenkoben; In 2018 he was a lecturer there, together with Angelica Ammar.

In 2006 Stanišić presented his debut novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone . In the semi-autobiographical story, which is set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War, the author portrays the young Bosnian Aleksandar from Višegrad, who flees to Germany with his parents and takes refuge in a world of stories and memories in his new home. The Robert Bosch Stiftung provided the author with a cross-border commuter grant for the research. Stanišić's first novel was hugely successful with readers and critics and has been translated into 30 languages.

The novel, rated as poetic and comical at the same time, was on the shortlist of the German Book Prize in 2006 and received the promotion prize for the literature prize of the city of Bremen in 2007 . In addition, Wie der Soldat das Grammophon repariert was adapted as a radio play by Bavarian Radio / Radio Play and Media Art in the year of its publication and was nominated for the German Audio Book Prize in 2007. In 2008 Stanišic was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize , the Lydia Eymann Scholarship and the Heimito von Doderer Prize for Literature .

2006/2007 Stanišić was the town clerk of Graz . The Schauspielhaus Graz in 2008 brought the dramatized version of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone on stage. Stanišić's first play, Go West , premiered in March 2008.

In 2013, Stanisic was the fourth " feuergriffel " -Stadtschreiber scholarship for children's literature of the city of Mannheim. He was a guest in the tower of the old fire station in Mannheim . In the same year he received the Alfred Döblin Prize for the novel manuscript Anna , and for Frau Kranz paints a picture of Hier the Hohenems Literature Prize .

Acceptance speech by Saša Stanišić on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

In 2014 Stanišić was honored with the Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Category: Fiction ) for the second novel Vor dem Fest . In the same year he was nominated for the German Book Prize (longlist). In 2016 he received the Rheingau Literature Prize for the short story volume Fallensteller and in 2017 the Schubart Literature Prize .

At the Hamburg Abitur exams in 2019, questions about the novel Before the Festival were asked as a task in German as a subject. According to his own information, Stanišić took part in the exam under a woman's name and received 13 out of 15 possible points for the tasks in which, among other things, a further chapter was to be added in the interests of the author and the book was to be classified in terms of literature.

In 2019, Stanišić received a poetry lectureship from the RheinMain University and the state capital Wiesbaden .

Also in 2019 he was nominated for the autobiographical novel of origin awarded the German Book Prize. The jury praised Stanišić as an imaginative and witty narrator: "Underneath every sentence of this novel is the unavailable origin, which is at the same time the driving force behind the narration [...] With a lot of wit, he counteracts the narratives of the historians with his own stories." Criticized in the acceptance speech Stanišić awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to Peter Handke . Among other things, he said: "I was lucky enough to escape what Peter Handke does not describe in his texts". The Austrian author had repeatedly sided with the Serbs in connection with the Yugoslav Wars.

Stanišić has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 2015 . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Saša Stanišić has one son. He lives with his family in Hamburg-Altona . Stanišić has been a German citizen since 2013.

Single track

Novels, short stories

Radio plays

Fantasy

Articles in magazines and anthologies

stories

  • 2001: In Silence I Trust , in: Krachkultur 9/2001
  • 2002: Zinke , in. 20 under 30. Young German authors , ed. by Martin Brinkmann and Werner Loch-Lawrence , DVA 2002
  • 2002: get done: stripping, kajal
  • 2002: The dance of the five sisters , in: Curse of the past, Fanpro, Erkrath
  • 2003: How Selim Hadzihalilovic returned ...
  • 2003: Heinz Harald Frentzen has a cold
  • 2005: Kasachok billiards
  • 2005: Dream! Dream, trauma
  • 2005: Äcki plays for the boys and Petra, the radio operator
  • 2005: What we play in the basement ...
  • 2005: Hai Nuun in Veletovo
  • 2005: Two instructions for structural stability, each with examples, plus two smaller errands
  • 2005: Zinke runs in: Unter Aves' Schwingen, Fanpro, Erkrath
  • 2007: George W. with micro mouse ears

Essays

  • 2005: colon nomad

Awards

literature

  • Karin Janker: Saša Stanišić on memory . Interview, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 15, 2019, p. 56.
  • Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

Commons : Saša Stanišić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saša Stanišić . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/2019 of July 23, 2019 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  2. ↑ Tina Gerhäusser: German-speaking, independent, young ... looking for an editor. In: Deutschlandfunk. November 10, 2005, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Article The IGH congratulates Saša Stanišić on being nominated for the German Book Prize at igh.hd.bw.schule.de ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ “I don't know any blockages, just long reflection” , accessed on August 7, 2015
  5. ↑ Oi Lin Lian and Sasa Stanisic excellent. In: uni-protocol.de. June 25, 2004, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ http://archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreisv2/bachmannpreis/information/stories/42659/index.html
  7. ↑ a b Robert Bosch Stiftung, Border Crossers Europe and Its Neighbors
  8. ↑ cf. Random House "Foreign Rights"
  9. ↑ a b Press release of the Robert Bosch Foundation, October 12, 2007 ( Memento from June 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Program, Schauspiel Graz 2007/08 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ City of Mannheim press release from January 16, 2013 , accessed on January 17, 2013
  12. ↑ a b Alfred Döblin Prize 2013 to Sasa Stanisic. In: Börsenblatt. May 6, 2013, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Report on lvz-online.de ( Memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 13, 2014
  14. ↑ a b City of Aalen: Schubart Literature Prize 2017 is awarded to Saša Stanišić. (No longer available online.) City of Aalen, February 24, 2017, archived from the original on February 25, 2017 ; Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  15. ^ Writer, 41, secretly writes German Abi - about his own novel. Spiegel Online, June 26, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Successful author: Saša Stanišić secretly writes the German Abitur - for her own novel . mdr.de, June 26, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019.
  17. ^ "Teaching assignment" for Saša Stanišic. In: Wiesbaden lives. September 3, 2019, accessed on September 3, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ Saša Stanišić receives the German Book Prize 2019 . In: deutscher-buchpreis.de (PDF file; accessed on October 14, 2019).
  19. ↑ Swedish Academy defends Nobel Prize for Handke . In: Tagesspiegel.de. October 17, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Stanišić receives German Book Prize . In: tagesschau.de, October 14, 2019 (accessed October 14, 2019).
  21. ↑ Sasa Stanisic on Handke: "Shocked that something like this is being awarded". Acceptance speech by the new winner of the German Book Prize, Sasa Stanisic, in full. In: orf.at. October 14, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  22. ^ Akademie der Künste Hamburg / Members Accessed on June 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Stanišić, Saša
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanišic, Saša; Stanisic, Sasa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German - Bosnian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Višegrad , Bosnia and Herzegovina