Dana Ranga
Dana Ranga
Dana Ranga was born in Bucharest in 1964 and came to Germany in 1987. She studied semiotics, filmmaking and art history at the Free University of Berlin. Her poems have been published in the US (Exquisite Corpse, Trafika and Clouds Magazine), Germany (Sinn und Form, die horen), Romania (Romania Literara, Tribuna and Lettre Internationale) and Moldova (Contrafort). Her documentary films (Astronaut) Story and Cosmonaut Polyakov were screened at festivals and in cinemas the world over. Dana Ranga lives in Berlin, where she works as a freelance writer.
Dana Ranga was born in Bucharest in 1964 and came to Germany in 1987. She studied semiotics, filmmaking and art history at the Free University of Berlin. Her poems have been published in the US (Exquisite Corpse, Trafika and Clouds Magazine), Germany (Sinn und Form, die horen), Romania (Romania Literara, Tribuna and Lettre Internationale) and Moldova (Contrafort). Her documentary films (Astronaut) Story and Cosmonaut Polyakov were screened at festivals and in cinemas the world over. Dana Ranga lives in Berlin, where she works as a freelance writer.
Awards (selection)
Adelbert von Chamisso Prize 2014
Adelbert von Chamisso Prize 2014
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2011
Dana RangaYear of Publication: 2011
Waterbook
Dana Ranga’s poems are stations on a journey through the depths of the ocean and at the same time scenes from a sub-aquatic film. Against this strange underwater backdrop, fish and man encounter each other in a series of rapidly changing scenes, and the play of transformations begins: the air breathers grow gills and the deep-sea dwellers develop all too human...