Gregor von Rezzori (; May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998), born Gregor Arnulph Herbert Hilarius von Rezzori d’Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian,

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ist,

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and author of

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s, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector. He was fluent in German,

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, Italian, Polish,

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, French, and English; during his life, von Rezzori was successively a citizen of

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, and the

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, before becoming a

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and spending his final years as a citizen of Austria. He married Beatrice Monti della Corte. Gregor von Rezzori signature (cropped)

Biography

Gregor von Rezzori was born in

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, part of Austria-Hungary at the time (1914). He originated from an

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aristocratic family from the

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who had settled in

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by the mid-18th century. His father was an Austrian

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based in Czernowitz. The family remained in the region after it became part of the

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in 1919, and the young Gregor von Rezzori became a Romanian citizen. After

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von Rezzori studied in colleges in Braşov,

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and Vienna. He began studying mining at the

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, then architecture and medicine at the

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, where he eventually graduated in arts. In mid-1930 he moved to

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, took up military service in the

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, and made a living as an artist. In 1938 he moved to

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, where he became active as a novelist, journalist, writer in radio broadcasting, and film production. Given his Romanian citizenship, von Rezzori was not drafted into the

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during

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. Until the mid-1950s, he worked as an author at the broadcasting company

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. He regularly published novels and stories, as well as working in film production as a screenplay author and actor (starring alongside actors such as

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Anna Karina Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019)

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). Beginning in the early 1960s, Rezzori lived between

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and

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, with sojourns in the United States, eventually settling in

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. Besides writing and performing, he and his spouse Beatrice Monti della Corte were significant art collectors, and together founded the Santa Maddalena Retreat for Writers. He died in Santa Maddalena, part of

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's Donnini ''

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''.

Literary works

Rezzori began his career as a writer of light novels, but he first encountered success in 1953 with the ''Maghrebinian Tales'', a suite of droll stories and anecdotes from an imaginary land called "Maghrebinia", which reunited in a grotesque and parodic key traits of his multicultural Bukovinian birthplace, of extinct Austria-Hungary and of Bucharest of his youth. Over the years, Rezzori published further ''Maghrebinian Tales'', which increased his reputation of language virtuosity and free spirit, writing with wit, insight and elegance. Other books, such as ''The Death of My Brother Abel'', ''Oedipus at Stalingrad'', or ''The Snows of Yesteryear'', recording the fading world at the time of the World Wars, have been celebrated for their powerful descriptive prose, nuance and style.Kraft, p.1027–1029 Rezzori first came to the attention of English-speaking readers with the 1969 publication of the story "Memoirs of an

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" in ''The New Yorker,'' On this occasion,

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, who was born in Bukovina's neighboring Maramureş, wrote:

"Rezzori addresses the major problems of our time, and his voice echoes with the disturbing and wonderful magic of a true storyteller."

The novel-length version of '' Memoirs of an Anti-Semite'' was published in Germany in 1979, with the English translation following in 1981''.'' It received enthusiastic reviews from

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and

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when originally published. It was reissued by

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in 2007, and

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wrote in a retrospective review, "Gregor von Rezzori could claim the peculiar distinction of being one of the few survivors to treat this ultimate catastrophe in the mild language of understatement. This is what still gives his novel the power to shock." Reissues of ''The Snows of Yesteryear'' and ''An Ermine in Czernopol'' followed in 2008 and 2012, respectively. In 2019 NYRB published ''The Death of My Brother Abel'' and its sequel ''Cain'' as a single volume. Elie Wiesel wrote of ''The Death of My Brother Abel'', "If a great novel can be recognized by its obsessions, its characters and, above all, its tone, then ''The Death of My Brother Abel'' is unquestionably great. Rezzori addresses the major problems of our time, and his voice echoes with the disturbing and wonderful magic of the true storyteller." Rezzori's controversial description of Vladimir Nabokov's ''

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'' as "the only convincing love story of our century" appeared on the cover of the second Vintage International edition of the novel.A Stranger in Lolitaland. An Essay", 1993, Vanity Fair It was attributed simply to "Vanity Fair", the magazine which published Rezzori's original review of the book, and Rezzori was not often heralded as the man behind the quote. In his ''Guide for Idiots through German Society'', von Rezzori also used his noted taste for satire. Although he was not unanimously perceived as a major author in the German-speaking area, his posthumous reception has arguably confirmed him among the most important modern German-language authors.

Published titles

*''Flamme, die sich verzehrt'' (''Self-Extinguishing Flame'', novel, 1939) *''Rombachs einsame Jahre'', (''Rombach's Lonely Years'', novel, 1942) *''Rose Manzani'' (novel, 1944) *''Maghrebinische Geschichten'' (''Tales of Maghrebinia'', 1953) *''Ödipus siegt bei Stalingrad'' (''Oedipus Prevails at Stalingrad'', 1954) *''Männerfibel'', (''A Primer on Men'', 1955) *''An Ermine in Czernopol'' novel ("The Hussar", 1958) *''Idiotenführer durch die deutsche Gesellschaft. 1: Hochadel'' (''An Idiot’s Guide through German Society. 1: Upper Nobility'', 1962) *''Idiotenführer durch die deutsche Gesellschaft. 2: Adel'' (''An Idiot’s Guide through German Society. 2: Nobility'', 1962) *''Bogdan im Knoblauchwald. Ein maghrebinisches Märchen'' (''Bogdan in the Garlic Forest. A Maghrebinian Tale'', 1962) *''Idiotenführer durch die deutsche Gesellschaft. 3: Schickeria'' (''An Idiot’s Guide through German Society. 3: Glitterati'', 1963) *''Idiotenführer durch die deutsche Gesellschaft. 4: Prominenz'' (''An Idiot’s Guide through German Society. 4: Notables'', 1965) *''Die Toten auf ihre Plätze. Tagebuch des Films Viva Maria'' (''The Dead on Their Places. Journal of the Movie 'Viva Maria, 1966) *''1001 Jahr Maghrebinien. Eine Festschrift'' (1967) *''Der Tod meines Bruders Abel'' (''The Death of My Brother Abel'', novel, 1976 in Germany; 1985 in U.S., reissued in 2019) *''Greif zur Geige, Frau Vergangenheit'' (''Grab the Fiddle, Ms. Yesteryear'', novel, 1978) *''Denkwürdigkeiten eines Antisemiten'' ('' Memoirs of an Anti-Semite'', 1979 in Germany; 1981 in U.S., reissued in 2007) *''Der arbeitslose König. Maghrebinisches Märchen'' (''The Jobless King: A Maghrebinian Tale'', 1981) *''Kurze Reise übern langen Weg. Eine Farce'' (''Short Trip on a Long Route: A Farce'', 1986) *''Blumen im Schnee – Portraitstudien zu einer Autobiographie, die ich nie schreiben werde. Auch: Versuch der Erzählweise eines gleicherweise nie geschriebenen Bildungsromans'' (''The Snows Of Yesteryear'', autobiographical essays, 1989) *''Über dem Kliff'' (''Beyond the Cliff'', stories, 1991) *''Begegnungen'' (''Encounters'', 1992) *''Ein Fremder in Lolitaland. Ein Essay'' (''A Stranger in Lolitaland'', 1993), first published in English by ''

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'' *''Greisengemurmel. Ein Rechenschaftsbericht'' (''Old Men's Mutterings: A Statement of Accounts'', 1994) *''Italien, Vaterland der Legenden, Mutterland der Mythen. Reisen durch die europäischen Vaterländer oder wie althergebrachte Gemeinplätze durch neue zu ersetzen sind'' (1996) *''Frankreich. Gottesland der Frauen und der Phrasen. Reisen durch die europäischen Vaterländer oder wie althergebrachte Gemeinplätze durch neue zu ersetzen sind'' (1997) *''Mir auf der Spur'' (''On My Own Traces'', 1997) *''Kain. Das letzte Manuskript'' (posthumous novel, 2001)

Awards

* Theodor-Fontane-Preis (1959) * Premio Scanno (1987) * Premio Boccaccio * Premio Lorenzo Il Magnifico

Filmography

Screenwriter

*''Kopfjäger von Borneo'', 1936 *''

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'', 1953 *''Labyrinth'', 1959 *'' Beloved Augustin'', 1959 * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1960) *''Man nennt es Amore'', 1961 * '' Beloved Impostor'', 1961 *'' The Gentlemen'', 1965 *''

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'', 1967

Actor

* ''

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'' (1954, directed by

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) (with

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) as Redakteur * ' (1957, directed by Rolf Thiele) (with

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, Nadja Tiller) as Lord Avon * ''

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'' (1959, directed by ) (with Willy Hagara,

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) as Tokasz, Ilonas Vater * ''Labyrinth'' (1959, directed by Rolf Thiele) (with Nadja Tiller, Peter van Eyck, Amedeo Nazzari) as Schweizer Zöllner * ''

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'' (1959, directed by

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) (with

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) * '' Das Riesenrad'' (1961, directed by

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) (with

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, O. W. Fischer,

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) as Graf Wallburg * '' A Very Private Affair'' (1962, directed by

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) (with

) as Gricha * ''

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'' (1963, directed by

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) (with

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) as Sir Craven * '' Games of Desire'' (1964, directed by

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and Peter Berneis) (with Ingrid Thulin, Claudine Auger,

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) * '' Un mari à prix fixe'' (1965, directed by Claude de Givray) (with

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) as Konrad Reinhoff * ''Die Herren'' (1965, directed by Franz Seitz, Rolf Thiele, Alfred Weidenmann) as Onkel Grischa * ''

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'' (1965, directed by Louis Malle, and

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) with Brigitte Bardot,

) as Diogène * ''

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'' (1969, directed by

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) (with David Warner, Anna Karina) as Kunz * ''Ein bißchen Liebe'' (1974, directed by ) (with Brigitte Berger, Eva Maria Herzig) * ''Le beau monde'' (1981, TV Movie, directed by Michel Polac) (with Fabrice Luchini, Judith Magre) as Eric (final film role)

Notes

References

"Gregor von Rezzori at Institute as writer-in-residence; will speak Nov. 21", in ''MIT Tech Talk'', Vol 41, Nr 12, November 20, 1996
*W. Killy (ed.), ''Literaturlexikon'', vol. 9, Lexikon Verlag, 2001 *Th. Kraft (ed.), ''Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1945'', Nymphenburger, Munich, 2003

External links

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Santa Maddalena Foundation
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Filmography

Screenwriter

Actor

See also

Further reading

Notes

References

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