Stefano Benni

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Stefano Benni (2005)

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.

  • Bar Sports (1976)
  • La tribù di Moro Seduto (1977)
  • Non siamo stato noi (1978)
  • Il Benni furioso (1979)
  • Spettacoloso (1981)
  • Prima o poi l'amore arriva (1981)
  • Terra! (1983)
  • I meravigliosi animali di Stranalandia (1984)
  • Il ritorno del Benni furioso (1986)
  • Comici spaventati guerrieri (1986)
  • Il bar sotto il mare (1987)
  • Baol (1990)
  • Ballate (1991)
  • La Compagnia dei Celestini (1992)
  • L'ultima lacrima (1994)
  • Elianto (1996)
  • Bar Sport Duemila (1997)
  • Blues in sedici (1998)
  • Theater (1999)
  • Spiriti (2000)
  • Dottor Niù, Corsivi diabolici per tragedie evitabili (2001)
  • Saltatempo (2001)
  • Theater 2 (2003)
  • Achille piè veloce (2003)
  • Margherita Dolcevita (2005)
  • Misterioso. Viaggio nel Silenzio di Thelonious Monk (2005)
  • Baldanders (Audiolibro, 2006)
  • La Grammatica di Dio (Feltrinelli 2007)
  • Pane e Tempesta (2009)
  • Le Beatrici (2011)
  • La Traccia dell'Angelo (2011)
  • Di tutte le ricchezze (2012)
  • La bottiglia magica (2016)
  • Prendiluna (2017)

German translations

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the episode La Luisona from it was inserted by the translator into Brot und Unwetter 2017
  2. ↑ Fairy tales for adults: Bread and Storms , review by Wolfram Schütte in Deutschlandradio Kultur from August 24, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Benni, Stefano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, journalist and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna