Slobodan Šnajder

Slobodan Šnajder is a Croatian writer and publicist.

Šnajder was born on July 8, 1948 in Zagreb, where graduated in philosophy and English studies from the Faculty of Philosophy. He was co-founder and editor of the theatre journal Prolog as well as editor of the edition published by Cekade. His short stories, essays and plays were published in 1966. From January to June 1993, a columnist in daily newspaper "Glas Slavonije" (Početnica za melankolike), and, since January 1994, in daily newspaper "Novi list". He is a member of the Advisory Board of "Novi Plamen".

Works

The Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb (HNK) has already staged the two of his plays, "Kamov, smrtopis" (Kamov, the Necrography) (1978) and "Držićev san" (Dream of Držić) (1980), both produced by Ljubiša Ristić. "Kamov, smrtopis" (Kamov, the Necrography) was staged in March 2003 by the Zagreb Youths' Theatre (ZKM) in the production of Branko Brezovec. Play about Josip Broz Tito "The Bones in Stone" was staged in march 2007 at National Theatre Bitola, Republic of Macedonia, directed by Branko Brezovec.

During nineteen-nineties, in the Franjo Tudjman decade, Šnajder was excluded from the Croatian theatres and his plays were not staged. However, the political suspension did not apply to Europe, so many of his texts were staged in this period: "Hrvatski Faust" (Croatian Faust) (among other theatres, at the Viennese Burgtheater, and at [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater_an_der_Ruhr Theater an den Ruhr] directed by [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Ciulli Roberto Ciulli] ); "Zmijin svlak" (Snake's skin); "Utjeha sjevernih mora" (Comfort of the Northern Seas) (Frankfurt (Oder)); "Nevjesta od vjetra" (Bride of the Wind) was premièred as a play at the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 1998, produced by Werner Schroeter. For the last nine years, he has been writing political columns, symbolically entitled "Opasne veze" (Les Liaisons dangereuses), in the daily newspaper published in Rijeka - Novi list. The selection covering the columns written until 1999 was published in the book "Kardinalna greška" (Cardinal Mistake), while the ones published from 1999 to mid-2004 were collected in another book - "Umrijeti pod zvijezdom" (To Die Under the Star). His columns, just as his plays, have their advocates and opponents, as well, both today and as it used to be in the nineties.

Bibliography

* Kamov (Cekade, Zagreb 1978)
* Hrvatski Faust (Cekade, Zagreb 1981)
* Glasi iz Dubrave (Cekade, Zagreb 1986)
* Radosna apokalipsa (IC Rijeka, Rijeka 1988)
* Kroatischer Faust (Burgtheater, Vienna 1993)
* Utjeha sjevernih mora (Durieux, Zagreb 1996) ISBN 953-188-057-3
* Knjiga o sitnom (Konzor, Zagreb 1996)
* Kardinalna greška (Novi list – Adamić, Rijeka 1999) ISBN 953-6531-52-6
* La dépouille du serpent, (L'espace d'un instant, Paris 2002)
* Umrijeti pod zvijezdom (Novi list – Adamić, Rijeka 2005) ISBN 953-219-236-0
* Knjiga o sitnom - proza i dramoleti (Prometej, Zagreb 2005) ISBN 953-6460-51-3
* Kaspariana – eseji (Prometej, Zagreb 2005) ISBN 953-6460-52-1
* Smrtopis – drame (Prometej, Zagreb 2005) ISBN 953-6460-51-X
* Početnica za melankolike – proza (Prometej, Zagreb 2006) ISBN 953-6460-63-7
* Radosna apokalipsa - eseji i kritike (Prometej, Zagreb 2006) ISBN 953-6460-63-7
* Bosanske drame (Prometej, Zagreb 2006) ISBN 953-6460-63-7
* 505 sa crtom (Profil International, Zagreb 2007) ISBN 978-953-12-0551-1

See also

*Novi list

*Novi Plamen

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