Thomas Nicolaou
Thomas Nicolaou (born July 7, 1937 in Ambeliko / Greece ; † September 9, 2008 ) was a Greek - German writer and translator .
Life
Thomas Nicolaou grew up with his grandparents from 1947. After the defeat of the Popular Front in the Greek Civil War in 1949, he came to the GDR via Albania as a refugee child . He completed a degree in journalism at the University of Leipzig and worked for four years as a research assistant . From 1966 he was a freelance writer . Nicolaou lived in the Mecklenburg artists' colony Drispeth , where he made numerous contacts with fellow GDR writers, a. a. to Christa Wolf , used to. From 1979 Nicolaou traveled regularly to his home in Thessaloniki ; In 1992 he settled in his home town of Ambeliko with his wife Carola and son Peter .
Thomas Nicolaou was the author of narrative works and children's books ; He also worked as a translator and editor of modern Greek authors.
Even before the fall of the Wall in the GDR , it became known that Nicolaou, who belonged to the Communist Party of Greece , was an informant for the Ministry of State Security as " IM Anton" . In the GDR, Nicolaou was awarded the “ Star of Friendship between Nations ”.
Works
- Puputa , Berlin 1966 (together with Regine Grube-Heinecke )
- The barbarians came at night , Halle (Saale) 1968
- Petros , Berlin 1971
- Nicos and the Sunfish , Berlin 1972 (together with Carola Nicolaou)
- Sternchen , Berlin 1973
- The rider in the night , Berlin 1975
- Die Schwanenfeder , Berlin 1980 (together with Konrad Golz)
- Climb Mount Olympus once , Halle [u. a.] 1989 (together with Manfred Küchler)
Editing
- This landscape is hard as the silence , Leipzig 1972
- 24 Greek storytellers , Berlin 1977
- Giannēs Ritsos : Milos looped , Leipzig 1979
- Odysseas Elytēs : Shiny day, shell of the voice , Berlin 1982
Translations
- Kostas Kotsias : Dark Shafts , Berlin 1974
- Gianne Ritsos : erotica , Berlin 1983
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Giannēs Ritsos : Icon wall of anonymous saints , Berlin
- 1 (1986)
- 2 (1987)
- 3 (1989)
- Giannēs Ritsos : Small Suite in the Red Major , Berlin 1982
- Giannēs Ritsos : What strange things , Berlin 1985
- Antōnēs Eur.Samarakēs : Der Fehler , Berlin 1976
- Antōnēs Eur.Samarakēs : Die Notbremse , Berlin 1981
- Antōnēs Eur.Samarakēs : The passport , Berlin 1980
- Basilēs Sebdalēs : The Treasure of Akanthos , Frankfurt / Main 2000
- Zoi Valassi : The King and the Nightingale , Berlin 1983
- Alkē Zeē : A man at thirteen , Berlin 1977
- Alkē Zeē : Wildcat under Glass , Berlin 1973
literature
Dennis Püllmann (2017): Thomas Nicolaous novel At night the barbarians came into the literary field of the GDR. In: Marco Hillemann / Miltos Pechlivanos: German-Greek Relations in East German State Socialism (1949–1989). Political migration, realpolitik and intercultural encounters; Berlin 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Braun, Matthias: Kulturinsel und Machtinstrument, Göttingen 2007, p. 266, ( limited preview in Google book search) and Joachim Walther at Matti and Stasi in the country on Welt.de
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicolaou, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek-German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ambeliko , Greece |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 2008 |