Welcome on the English Summary of Mariella Mehr's Website
Who is Mariella Mehr?
She is an author of fiction, theatre and poetry
"Those, who are writing seriously are always in search of their own identity. They sometimes reach their own limits and abysses and more rarely those of THE human being. I think that I have reached these limits in some of my books. This might be the reason why my writing is not for everybody. Big selling records are made with light infotainment...".
Mariella Mehr, February 2002
Mariella Mehr was born 1947 in Switzerland. She is of Roma (Gypsy) origin. Her childhood and adolescence is a typical example for members of this minority under the Swiss Gypsy oppression system. See Laurence Jourdan, 1999
How well is she known?
She has been honoured by literary awards and prizes. For her courageous fight against discrimination of minorities and the documentation she created in this field the University of Basel honoured her with a PH.D. honoris causa of the faculty of philosophy and history. Mentioning in Swiss and German Indexes of Authors.
"steinzeit", autobiographic/fiction, available in German, French, Italian and Finnish (English translation is available from the webmaster)
"Das Licht der Frau", a poetic report on female tauromachia, German (could be a bestseller if translated into Spanish)
"In diesen Traum...", poems, German
"Kinder der Landstrasse", theatre, German
"Silvia Z.", theatre, German
"Anni B.", theatre, German
"Rückblitze", a collection of features, German
"Zeus", fiction, German
"Daskind", fiction, German, French, Italian
"Brandzauber", fiction, German, French, Italian
"Nachrichten...", poems in German, Romanès and Italian
"Widerwelten", poems in German and Romanès
"Angeklagt", fiction, German, Short presentation in English
"Im Sternbild des Wolfes", poems, German
Nothing published! "steinzeit" and "Anni B." have been translated into English by Roger Russi, Professor for German literature at University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC
"Zeus", has been translated by Maria Schoenhammer, one chapter is published in "Read Frank" and available also here!
one Poem is published in "Fife Lines" No. 6 Autumn 2002
What is available for publishing in English?
All above titles! All © by Mariella Mehr
Other sources of information in English
Christina Mergozzi, 1995, Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, Literary Aurality and the Politics of Counter-Literacy: Spiritual Resistance in Morrisson, Mehr, Anzaldua, and Silko
Home page of Prof. Roger Russi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC
Bill Forster, University of Hertfordshire,
Business potential
"Angeklagt" is a monologue of a woman-pyromaniac and murderer. It might be an excellent basis of a stage/screen-script for a psycho-thriller! Short presentation in English
Mariella is a "post-expressionist". Her writing is full of images creating "visual sensations" in the readers mind. That's why publishers, Film/TV-Managers and Theatre intendants should have a closer look at her literature.
Her novel "Das Licht der Frau" (female tauromachia) in Spanish translation could be big business in Spain an Latin America)
The play "Kinder der Landstrasse" had a great echo in the Press. Marianne Pletscher of Swiss TV made a documentary of the “mise en scene” in theatre. Urs Egger and Joh. Bösiger made a Film in this context with Jasmin Tabatabai: “Jenseits der Landstrasse”.
The Film was quite successful in Europe. A video is available.
