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Herta Müller

No. 481 (das dümmste ist)

  • 1 No. 481 (das dümmste ist) | Translations: ru
  • 2 No. 487 (Abends schiebt jede Aprikose) | Translations: ru
  • 3 No. 492 (der Löffelbieger sagt) | Translations: ru
  • 4 No. 503 (sobald ich die Melone aufschneide) | Translations: ru
  • 5 No. 493 (der Platz war für den Kopf)
  • 6 No. 528 (deoarece am sădit un şoarece în)
  • 7 No. 550 (da, înăuntru şi afară)
  • 8 No. 552 (Ei, aseră în cer lipse au stelele se tîrau fix)
  • 9 No. 554 (da, aşa stau lucrurile că n-ar fi rău)
  • 10 No. 565 (Băăăăăă)
Language: german
Translations: russian (No. 481)
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No. 481 (das dümmste ist)

© Carl Hanser Verlag / H.M
From: Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen
München : Carl Hanser Verlag, 2005
ISBN: 3-446-20677-9
Audio production: 2005, M.Mechner / Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
Categories: visual poetry, collage / montage

Translations:

Language: russian

No. 481

Как глупо что трава гуляет в моём
новом платье пока я тут сижу перед
парикмахерской на бетонной скамейке
одна из пяти первая в очереди дура у
второй коровьи глаза третья подлюга
четвёртая и пятая это я но что всего хуже
то что подо мной лужа гляжусь в неё
и строю рожи чтоб отличить себя от той
что так похожа одна из нас не может
различить меховую шапку на голове другой
и мёртвую птицу в луже с водой.

Перевёл с немецкого Борис Шапиро
Герта Мюллер. Бледные господа с чашечкой кофе в руках. — Ozolnieki: Literature without borders, 2018.

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Herta Müller

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* 17.08.1953, Nitzkydorf, Distrikt Banat, Romania
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Herta Müller was born in the German speaking Nitzkydorf, Distrikt Banat in Romania in 1953. In Timisoara she studied Romanian and German Literature.

After her studies she was employed as a translator in a machine factory. Wen contacted by intermediaries of the Romanian Secret Service ('Securitate'), she strictly refused any collaboration, which led to her losing her job in the factory. The Secret Service expected to receive information from her about the 'Campaign Group Banat', of which she was a member.

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During this period, she began writing her first stories, which she brought together in a collection entitled Niederungen. Nevertheless she had great difficulty getting her work through the censors and her first book was only able to be published (in German) in 1982 as a heavily edited version. Niederungen was finally published in Germany in an uncensored version in 1984. Awards and invitations to Germany followed.

Following her criticism of the Romanian Ceaucescu dictatorship in interviews, however, she was placed under a publication and travelling ban – culminating in death threats by the Secret Service. In 1987, she left Romania. Since then she has lived in Berlin, with her husband, the novelist Richard Wagner, as well as undertaking work as a guest professor at universities in England, the USA and Switzerland.

The same central themes re-appear in both Herta Müller's prose and her poetry: departing, emigrating, leaving, but without ever reaching a destination.

As well as the prizes for her debut (including, among others, the 'Aspekte Literaturpreis'), she has received many awards, including the European Literary Prize 'Aristeion', the 'International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award', the 'Kleist Preis', the 'Kafka Preis' and the 'Carl Zuckmayer Medaille'.

Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009, and was described by the Nobel Foundation, as a writer 'who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.'

Publications
  • Barfüßiger Februar

    Berlin : Rotbuch-Verl., 1987

  • Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger

    Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1992

  • Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm

    Vom Weggehen und Ausscheren

    Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1993

  • Herztier

    Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1994

  • Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt

    Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1995

  • Reisende auf einem Bein

    Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1995

  • Hunger und Seide

    Essays

    Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1995

  • In der Falle

    Göttingen: Wallstein, 1996

  • Drückender Tango

    Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1996

  • Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

    Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1997

  • Der fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne

    Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 1999

  • Im Haarknoten wohnt eine Dame

    Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2000

  • Heimat ist das, was gesprochen wird

    Blieskastel : Gollenstein, 2001

  • Niederungen

    Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2002

  • Der König verneigt sich und tötet

    Essays

    München: Hanser, 2003

  • Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen

    Collagen

    München: Hanser, 2005

  • Este sau nu este Ion

    Iaşi: Polirom, 2005

  • Herztier

    Roman

    (Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2007

  • Der Fuchs war damals schon Jäger

    Roman

    (Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2009

  • Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt

    Erzählung

    (Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2009

  • Atemschaukel

    Roman

    München: Hanser, 2009

  • Heute wäre ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

    (Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2009

  • Niederungen

    Prosa

    (vollständige Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2010

  • Reisende auf einem Bein

    (Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2010

  • Cristina und ihre Attrappe oder Was (nicht) in den Akten der Securitate steht

    Reihe: Göttinger Sudelblätter (Hg. von Heinz Ludwig Arnold)

    Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2009

  • Immer derselbe Schnee und immer derselbe Onkel

    München: Hanser, 2011

  • Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen

    Collagen

    München: Hanser, 2012

  • Mein Vaterland war ein Apfelkern

    Ein Gespräch mit Angelika Klammer

    München: Hanser, 2014

  • Hunger und Seide

    Essays

    (Neuausgabe)

    München: Hanser, 2015

  • Im Heimweh ist ein blauer Saal

    Collagen

    München: Hanser, 2019

  • Der Beamte sagte

    Erzählung

    Eine Geschichte in Collagen

    München: Hanser, 2021

  • Eine Fliege kommt durch einen halben Wald

    Berlin: Hanser Berlin, 2023

Awards
  • 1984 Aspekte Literature Preis

  • 1985 Rauris Literature Prize

  • 1987 Ricarda-Huch-Preis der Stadt Darmstadt

  • 1989 Marieluise-Fleisser-Literaturpreis der Stadt Ingolstadt

  • 1991 Kranichsteiner Literature Preis

  • 1991 Villa Massimo Stipendium

  • 1992 Literatur-Kritikerpreis des SWF

  • 1994 Kleist Preis

  • 1995 Prix Aristeion (Europäischer Literaturpreis Aristeion)

  • 1995 Stadtschreiberin von Bergen-Enkheim

  • 1997 Franz-Nabl-Preis (Literaturpreis der Stadt Graz)

  • 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

  • 1998 Ida-Dehmel-Literaturpreis

  • 1999 Franz Kafka-Preis

  • 2002 Carl Zuckmayer Medaille

  • 2003 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis

  • 2004 Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

  • 2005 Berliner Literaturpreis

  • 2005 Heiner-Müller-Gastprofessur für deutschsprachige Poetik an der FU Berlin

  • 2006 Würth-Preis für Europäische Literatur

  • 2006 Walter-Hasenclever-Literaturpreis

  • 2009 Ehrengabe der Heine-Gesellschaft

  • 2009 Nobelpreis für Literatur

  • 2009 Franz-Werfel-Menschenrechtspreis

  • 2010 Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Preis

  • 2010 Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

  • 2010 Ehrendoktorwürde der Seoul Women's University (Korea)

  • 2011 Samuel-Bogumil-Linde Literaturpreis

  • 2011 Monismanien-Preis

  • 2012 Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst

  • 2014 Ehrenpreis „Schärfste Klinge“ der Stadt Solingen

  • 2014 Hannelore-Greve-Literaturpreis

  • 2015 Heinrich-Böll-Preis der Stadt Köln

  • 2019 Eugen-Kogon-Preis

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