Stefano Benni
Stefano Benni (born August 12, 1947 in Bologna ) is an Italian writer , journalist and satirist . He lives in Bologna.
Life
Benni experienced his literary breakthrough in 1983 with the novel Terra! . In Italy he is considered a successful author, with more than 2.5 million copies of his books sold. In 1988 he wrote the screenplay for the film Topo Galileo and in 1989 was the co-director of the feature film Musica per vecchi animali . From 1992 onwards he also wrote plays, many of which premiered at the Teatro dell'Archivolto in Genoa . As a columnist, he writes regularly for Panorama magazine and the daily Il Manifesto .
Works
His short stories and novels are often surreal to macabre and brutal and therefore bring the reality of everyday life in Italy very close. Often his stories are about friendship, solidarity and imagination. His satire often attacks lying politicians and the adapted mass media. Benni's style is rich in puns, word formation, allusions to events, people and other literary works.
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German translations
- Terra! (Terra!) Translated by Pieke Biermann . Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-8031-2427-1
- Funny frightened warriors. (Comici spaventati guerrieri) Translator Pieke Biermann. Wagenbach, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-8031-2366-6
- The bar on the ocean floor . (Il bar sotto il mare) Translator Pieke Biermann. Wagenbach, 1999 ISBN 3-8031-2344-5
- Baol, or The Magical Adventures of a Feverish Saturday Night . (Baol) Translated by Jochen Koch. Wagenbach, 2000
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The last tear. (L'ultima lacrima) Translated from Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel . Beck and Glückler, Freiburg 1996 ISBN 3-89470-419-5
- There are no bad people, said the bear, when they are well prepared. Bastei Lübbe paperback, imprint of the publishing group Lübbe , 1999 ISBN 3-404-92022-8
- Ghosts. (Spiriti) Translated from Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Wagenbach, 2001 ISBN 3-8031-3156-1
- The time jumper. (Saltatempo) Translated by Moshe Kahn . Wagenbach, 2004 ISBN 3-8031-3191-X
- The quick-footed Achilles. (Achille piè veloce) Translated by Moshe Kahn. Wagenbach, 2006 ISBN 3-8031-3200-2
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Bread and storms. Novel. (Pane e tempesta) Translated from Mirjam Bitter. Wagenbach, Berlin 2011
- We still have the stories . Nina Restemeier on the "Bread and Storms" translation, ReLÜ , review magazine 13, 2012
The last tear
The short story collection The Last Tear was published in 1996 as a German edition by Beck and Glückler. The original edition dates from 1994 and was published under the title L'ultima lacrima by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli . A licensed edition under the title There are no bad people, said the bear, if they are well prepared was published by BLT (Verlagsgruppe Lübbe) from 1999. The book contains 24 short stories, of which the shortest is half a page and the longest 19 pages. The stories contain elements of fables and science fiction, but are mostly socially critical descriptions of the present. Often there are modifications of known situations, which, however, appear bizarre due to the modification. In this way, known patterns are questioned. An example of this is the story A Bad Student , in which students have to learn the history of talk shows and soap operas and are reprimanded for interest in biology. The book is dedicated to Umberto Angelucci and Luca Torrealta.
literature
- Wolfgang Pollanz : Terra! , in: The Science Fiction Year 1988 (Vol. 3), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-00983-5 , pp. 612-614.
- Klaus Semsch: Stefano Benni's dramatized body - the Italian stage as a place of a ceremonia di iniziazione or as a metafora dell'incomunicabilità? In: body and writing. , ed. v. C. Gronemann et al. a., Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2001 (Forum Junge Romanistik, 7), pp. 51–63, ISBN 978-3861431220 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefano Benni in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stefano Benni in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Stefano Benni at Open Library
- Benni's website
- Biographical summary
- Reading sample "Brother ATM"
- biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ the episode La Luisona from it was inserted by the translator into Brot und Unwetter 2017
- ↑ Fairy tales for adults: Bread and Storms , review by Wolfram Schütte in Deutschlandradio Kultur from August 24, 2012
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SURNAME | Benni, Stefano |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer, journalist and satirist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |