Tzveta Sofronieva
Tzveta Sofronieva ( Bulgarian Цвета Софрониева , * 1963 in Sofia ) is a German poet, essayist and prose writer of Bulgarian origin.
Life
Sofronieva comes from a middle-class liberal family from Sofia, where she spent her childhood and school. After graduating in physics in 1986, she did her doctorate in 1991 on cultural influences on knowledge transfer and studied poetry with Joseph Brodsky . Research stays took her to the USA, Canada and Great Britain, among others. From 1993–2000 she worked as a cultural correspondent for Radio Free Europe in Berlin.
She has been publishing poems, essays, theater texts, stories, adaptations and cultural studies articles since the early 1980s. She acquired her first knowledge of German as her fifth language at the age of 28. She has been publishing German-language stories and essays in anthologies since 1995 and her first German poems in 2007 in accents and manuscripts . In the mid-1990s, she initiated the “Forbidden Words” network on the memory of words in multilingualism. She is committed to web streaming poetry and links between science and literature.
She writes in Bulgarian, German and English and lives in Berlin .
Awards
Sofronieva received a first prize for poetry in 1988 from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , and in 2009 she won the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. Scholarships took her to Berlin in 1991 as a Walther Rathenau Fellow, in 1992 as a Visiting Fellow in St. John's College, University of Cambridge and the Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature & Arts in Great Britain, and in 1996 as a literature scholarship to the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and 2005 to the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. In 2010 she received an assignment as author-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Works (selection)
Volumes of poetry
- Landscapes, banks . Poems, Edition Lyrik Kabinett by Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24339-2
- A handful of water. German poems , Aschersleben: Unartig Verlag, 2008 ISBN 978-3-9810379-6-8
- Завръщането на белия бик , poems. Plovdiv: Zhanet45, 2007
- Раз-познавания , poems, Plovdiv: Zhanet45, 2006
- Caught in the light , poems, Bulgarian / German. Translations: Gabi Tiemann. Marburg an der Lahn: Biblion, 1999
- Зачеваща памет , poems, Sofia: Prosoretz, 1995
- Chicago blues , poetry, Bulgarian and English. Sofia: SPO, 1992
Poetry publications (selection)
- Three women. Poems German-Finnish-Bulgarian. Sabine Kleinert, Tzveta Sofronieva, Orvokki Vääriskoski, Leipzig 2009 , ISBN 978-3-86703-999-4
- Merci, Paris , manuscripts, issue 178, Graz, 2007
- Poems , Accents, Issue 3, 2007, Munich
- Poems , Waspennest, 140, 2005, transl .: Alexander Sitzmann
- Poems , Neue Sirene, No. 8, Munich 1998, transl .: Gabi Tiemann
stories
- This city can also be white . 112 pages. Hans Schiler Verlag, Tübingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89930-329-2 .
- Ms. T. , in: Transcript Review 25/2006 Great Britain
- Consolation , in: Forbidden Words, Biblion, 2005
- woman on woman , in: My secret eye, Das Jahrbuch der Erotik XIX, Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen, 2004
- Berlin-Sofia-Berlin , in: Fire, lust for life! Stories of German immigrants, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003
- Anatomy lesson of Dr. E. Tulp , Loaded (words) places, loaded landscapes, images and texts, with Maria Chilf, MDSE, Bitterfeld, 2003
- Journey into loneliness , in: Yearbook 3 Akademie Schloß Solitude, Edition Solitude, Stuttgart 1996
- This city can also be white , in: Diversity of Voices, Jovis, Berlin, 1995
Theatrical story
- Saga about the demolished courtyard or the family of the memoir writer , published in Bulgarian in Gestus, Sofia, 1996. Experimental performance in German, directed by Thomas Milz and Goran Gugulowski, Landestheater Tübingen and Akademie Schloß Solitude, 1996, International Theater Festival Varna, Bulgaria, 1998
Editions in German
- Forbidden Words, an anthology on the memory of language and encounters in multilingualism , Biblion, Munich, 2005
Web links
- Author's website
- Literature by and about Tzveta Sofronieva in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sofronieva, Tzveta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Софрониева, Цвета (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, essayist and prose author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sofia |