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Aglaja Veteranyi
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Aglaja Veteranyi was born in 1962 in Bucharest, the daughter of a circus artist and a clown, with whom she began performing at the age of 3. In 1967, the family left Romania and moved to Switzerland.
Over the next ten years, they would travel a great deal, with circus and variety show appearances in Europe, Africa and South America. Following their return to Switzerland in 1978, Aglaja Veteranyi began to mould herself into what she would become, and from 1979 to 1982 she studied acting at the Zurich Theatre Group (Schauspiel-Gemeinschaft Zürich).
She wrote her first literary texts during this period. Acting with the Zurich Theatre Group from 1982, she became its co-director in 1988. In addition to the many independent theatrical performances she staged, Veteranyi founded two performance groups with whom she presented several theatrical productions:
Word Pump (Die Wortpumpe)
with René Oberholzer (1993–1996) and
Angelic Machine (Die Engelsmaschine)
with Jens Nielsen (1996–2002). In parallel, she published short stories in anthologies, literary journals and newspapers. She made her name internationally with a work of autobiographical fiction entitled
Why the child is cooking in the polenta (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
, DVA publishing, 1999).
Aglaja Veteranyi committed suicide on 3 February 2002 in Zurich. Two more books of hers were published posthumously: the novel
The shelf of the last breaths (Das Regal der letzten Atemzüge
, DVA publishing, 2002) and the collection of short stories
About the empty sea, the rented socks and Frau Butter (Vom geräumten Meer, den gemieteten Socken und Frau Butter,
DVA publishing, 2004).
NTNG Collaborations
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Here Sky / Aglaja Veteranyi (Playwright) / Simos Kakalas (Director) - Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer (07/03/2020)
[Playwright]
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