Sandra Paretti
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Sandra Paretti (born February 5, 1935 in Regensburg , † March 13, 1994 in Zurich ; actually Irmgard Schneeberger ) was a German writer .
Life
Sandra Paretti grew up in her parents' house, a former canon court, on the Upper Wöhrd , one of Regensburg's two Danube islands. After graduating from high school in 1953, she first studied music and then German at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Sorbonne and at the La Sapienza University . In 1960 she was the subject of the literary fairy tales in the first half of the 20th century at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to Dr. phil. did her doctorate and started working as a journalist for the Münchner Abendzeitung .
After her first novel Rose and Sword (1967), which was immediately successful , she worked as a freelance writer . In 1969 she moved to Zurich.
Paretti's books are mostly social novels with a historical background. Paretti's works were made into films (most recently Der Wunschbaum as a television series) or appeared as speech records ( fairy tales from one night , speaker: Sandra Paretti). Paretti's books have been translated into 28 languages (total circulation: 30 million copies). This makes her one of the most widely read German-speaking storytellers.
Sandra Paretti's estate is kept in the Regensburg State Library . The city of Regensburg has named a new street in her honor. The Sandra-Paretti-Weg was officially opened in January 2012.
Suicide and obituary notice
Paretti died by suicide after suffering terminal cancer two years earlier. On March 14, 1994, the obituary she wrote herself appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on page 25, in which the author commented on her decision.
Paretti's suicide, but above all the advertisement, caused a sensation, among other things because Paretti was advertising the Swiss euthanasia association Exit .
Works
- Rose and Sword ¹ (1967)
- Lark and Lion ¹ (1969)
- Purple and Diamond ¹ (1971)
- Marlott 1970 (again as a club edition in anthology from 1982: The best of Konsalik ... and others)
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Winter That Was a Summer (1972), filmed in 1976
- as Heyne paperback; Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-00505-8 .
- The Tenants of the Earth (1975)
- The Wish Tree (1975), filmed in 2004
- The Magic Ship (1977) ( # 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from August 15 to 21, 1977 )
- Maria Canossa (1979)
- The Echoes Of Your Voice (1980)
- Paradise Man (1983)
- Tales from a Night (1985)
- South Sea Fever (1986)
- Tara Calese (1988)
- Laura Lumati (1988)
- My Regensburg World Theater (1989)
- In the mermaid on the Danube (1996)
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literature
- Rosmarie Zeller: Paretti, Sandra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Heinz Fischer: Paretti, Sandra. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 64 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Bernhard M. Baron , Sandra Paretti in Weiden. “Maybe I am a Weidner?”, In: Oberpfälzer Heimat Vol. 50 (2006) Weiden id OPf., Pp. 71 - 80. ISBN 3-937117-35-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Sandra Paretti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Report in the Berliner Zeitung from March 15, 1994
- Estate in the Regensburg State Library (PDF)
- Sandra Paretti in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.staatliche-bibliothek-regensburg.de/sonderbestaende/weiter-sonderbestaende/persoenliche-nachlaesse-und-sammlungen/
- ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: City honors Sandra Paretti and Rupert Preißl . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on August 6, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paretti, Sandra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schneeberger, Irmgard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1994 |
| Place of death | Zurich |