Terézia Mora

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Terézia Mora (2010)

Terézia Mora [ ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ ] (born February 5, 1971 in Sopron (Ödenburg), Hungary ) is a German-speaking Hungarian writer , screenwriter and translator . She translates Hungarian works into German.

Life

Terézia Mora grew up in a family that belongs to the German minority , bilingual Hungarian and German. After the political change in Hungary in 1990 she went to Berlin to study hungarology and theater studies at the Humboldt University . Since then she has lived in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German metropolis . She was trained as a screenwriter at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb).

She has been a freelance writer since 1998 . She writes her works in German . Terézia Mora worked for around ten years on a trilogy around the IT specialist Darius Kopp , of which Volume I, “The Only Man on the Continent”, was published in 2009 and Volume II, “Das Ungeheuer”, in 2013. For the second part, she received the German Book Prize in 2013 . Volume III “Auf dem Seil” was published in September 2019 at a kind of “book premiere” at the Berlin Academy of the Arts. In this final part, the protagonist starts a precarious life in contemporary Berlin after the death of his wife and the loss of his job as a 50-year-old after burnout . Surprisingly, this works without Hartz IV and social authority conflicts.

Mora is a member of the German PEN Center . In 2015 the German Academy for Language and Poetry elected her as a member. She is married and has a daughter. She writes her works exclusively in German.

Awards

Works

prose

Poetics lectures

Scripts

  • The Paths of Water in Erzincan , feature film, 30 min. (1998)
  • Boomtown / At the end of the city , feature film, 30 min. (1999)
  • The Alibi , feature film, 90 min. (2000)

Play

  • Something Like That (2003)

radio play

  • Miss June Ruby (2005)

essay

Translations

  • Péter Esterházy : Harmonia Caelestis . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001
  • István Örkény : Minute novellas . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2002
  • Péter Zilahy : The last window giraffe . Eichborn, Frankfurt 2004
  • Lajos Parti Nagy : My hero's place . Luchterhand literature, Munich 2005
  • Peter Esterházy: Escape of prose . In: Introduction to beautiful literature . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006
  • Péter Esterházy: No art . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2009
  • Péter Esterházy: A Production Novel (Two Production Novels) . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010
  • Gábor Németh : Are you a Jew? . Edition Atelier, Vienna 2011
  • Zsófia Bán : evening school. Primer for adults . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012
  • Zsófia Bán: When only animals lived . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014
  • Attila Bartis : The end . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017
  • Zoltán Danyi : The carcass clearer . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018
  • András Forgách : File closed. My mother, the spy . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2019

literature

  • Tobias Kraft: Literature in times of transnational life courses. Identity drafts and urban movements by Terézia Mora and Fabio Morábito . 2007, OCLC 651034197 ; Master's thesis University of Potsdam 2007; Full text (PDF; 3.8 MB) 130 pages
  • Aurora Distefano: Body and Gender - Reflections on Identity Issues in Terézia Mora's novel “Alle Tage” . In: Corinna Schlicht (Ed.): Gender studies in the humanities. Contributions from literature, film and language studies . Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, Duisburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-940251-70-1 , pp. 89-104.
  • Erika Hammer: Identity in Transit. Non-places and the dissociation of the subject in Terézia Mora's novel “The only man on the continent” . In: Journal of Intercultural German Studies , Volume 7, 2016, Issue 2, pp. 117–130, ISBN 978-3-8376-3567-6 .
  • Klaus Siblewski: Terézia Mora . In: text + kritik , Zeitschrift für Literatur, No. 221, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86916-776-3 .
  • Erika Hammer: Monstrous Orders and the Poetics of Liminality . Terézia Mora's novel trilogy "The only man on the continent", "The monster" and "On the rope", Bielefeld, Transcript, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8376-5330-4 , 382 pages

Web links

Commons : Terézia Mora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terézia Mora - What does bilingualism mean for your writing? Moderation: Ulrike Timm , Deutschlandradio Kultur , November 7, 2014
  2. ↑ Alem Grabovac: Writer Terézia Mora on fiction: "Makes much more sense than reality" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 1, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  3. ^ The novel Das Ungeheuer : Terézia Mora receives German Book Prize , Spiegel Online , October 7, 2013
  4. ↑ Terézia Mora on "Auf dem Seil": The fear of losing everything , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed September 5, 2019
  5. ↑ Press release: New members of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , June 16, 2015
  6. ^ German Book Prize: Terézia Mora - A woman writes in freedom , welt.de, October 7, 2016
  7. ↑ Terézia Mora: Csak Product state tudok írni. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  8. ^ Homepage Kunststiftung NRW , accessed on October 26, 2012
  9. ↑ Roswitha Prize 2018 goes to Terézia Mora at ndr.de on June 30, 2018
  10. ↑ Terezia Mora receives the Georg Büchner Prize . ORF , July 3, 2018; accessed on July 3, 2018.
  11. ↑ Julia Schröder: András Forgách: “Files closed. My mother, the spy ” . deutschlandfunk.de, March 26, 2019, accessed on March 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mora, Terézia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Sopron , Hungary