Vagelis Tsakiridis

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Evangelos Vagelis Tsakiridis , also Evangelos Vagelis Tsakerides , (* 1936 in Athens ) is a German-Greek writer , translator and sculptor .

Life

Tsakiridis studied law, sculpture and painting in his native Athens, before moving to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1960 to study architecture in Aachen . He refused to do his military service in the Greek army , whereupon his Greek citizenship was revoked. The German authorities denied Tsakiridis, who now lives in Berlin and is married, of German citizenship , so that he lived for several years as a stateless person . Only a letter from the former ruling mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt , in which he was guaranteed a passport, prevented his deportation to Greece, where the military dictatorship led by Georgios Papadopoulos was now in power. In February 1968, Tsakiridis was finally granted asylum in the Federal Republic . The case attracted attention in the contemporary press and became the occasion for a change in the naturalization law in the Federal Republic.

Tsakiridis wrote poetry and prose in German. He considered himself a German writer. In the anthology Super-Garde , Tsakiridis, known as "Tsak", counted himself among the beat and pop generation of German literature. At an exhibition of his iron sculptures in Athens, he acted as a representative of West Berlin culture. However, he also translated Greek literature into German. For a series published by Günter Grass at Luchterhand , he transferred seven Greek poets who were persecuted by the military dictatorship. For at Rowohlt moved Black Book of dictatorship in Greece Tsakiridis wrote the foreword.

In 1967 Tsakiridis was invited to the last meeting of Group 47 in the Waischenfeld powder mill . Here Erich Fried praised "highly original verse and prose that combine political aspects with semi-surrealist technology". In a runoff election for Group 47 he was defeated by Jürgen Becker , but on the initiative of Hans Werner Richter , a donation was made to the stateless person at the time.

No publications by Tsakiridis have been recorded since 1973.

Publications

  • 1965: State railways and other texts (with Hartwin Gromes and Dieter Hülsmanns ). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1967: Poems for the Virgin at the Well and prose . Luchterhand, Neuwied.
  • 1967: Contributions to narrative, criticism, poem , edited by Paul-Gerhard Hübsch . Trip, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1968: Hallelujah . Luchterhand, Neuwied.
  • 1969: as editor: Super-Garde. Prose of the beat and pop generation . Droste, Düsseldorf.
  • 1970: Foreword to: Aris Fakinos, Clément Lépidis, Richard Soméritis (eds.): Black Book of the Dictatorship in Greece . Rowohlt, Reinbek.
  • 1973: Tsaks Zacke . Melzer, Darmstadt.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vagelis Tsakiridis (ed.): Super-Garde. Prose of the beat and pop generation . Droste, Düsseldorf, p. 220.
  2. ^ Jürgen Peter Wallmann : Vagelis Tsakiridis: Hallelujah . In: Neue Deutsche Hefte Volume 15, J. Günther, 1968, pp. 132-133.
  3. ↑ a b Kai Hermann : Unfriendly act . In: The time of August 11, 1967.
  4. ↑ Rolf Zundel : Listen, what's coming in from outside . In: The time of May 2, 1969.
  5. ↑ a b c Helmut Salzinger : Hallelujah for a virgin . In: The time of September 13, 1968.
  6. ↑ a b Uwe Friesel : Damn smooth weed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1969, p. 134 ( online ).
  7. ↑ At night in the Office for Security ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1968, p. 78 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Volker Kaukoreit: From the “homecomer” to the “palace rebel”. A protocol on "Erich Fried and Group 47" . In: Stephan Braese (Hrsg.): Inventory. Studies on group 47 . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-503-04936-3 . P. 149.
  9. ↑ Poet, poet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1967, p. 178-182 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Nice when free . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1969, p. 214, 217 ( online ).
  11. ↑ Karl Hoche : A novel to get used to . In: Die Zeit of April 2, 1971.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to other sources in 1931 ( Vangelis Tsakiridis in the emuseum of the Düsseldorf Cultural Office)
personal data
SURNAME Tsakiridis, Vagelis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsakiridis, Evangelos Vagelis (full name); Tsakerides, Evangelos Vagelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek writer, translator and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens