Katrin. The Tale of a Young Writer is a novel by the artist Unica Zürn (Berlin 1916–Paris 1970). It was written in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English. Zürn tells the story of fifteen-year-old motherless Katrin, an aspiring writer, who lives with her father, also a writer. The novel is set in an imaginary world, a metropolis called Linit, split into three levels: Oberstadt (Hightown), Mittelstadt (Middletown) and Unterstadt (Lowtown), overlooked by a Volcano where the artists live and crossed by the river Emil. Presented as a book for children, apparently written for her own daughter (named Katrin), Katrin also draws on the personal biography of Zürn herself, in terms of her relationship with her father and the city of Berlin after WWII, and her experience with people on the margins of a society characterised by great tensions.
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Nora Berta « Unika » Ruth Zürn, d'abord connue sous le nom de Ruth, est née le 6 juillet 1916 à Berlin. Élevée à Berlin, elle entretient une relation conflictuelle avec sa mère, tandis qu'elle idolâtre son père absent. Pendant ses études, elle publie ses premières nouvelles dans des magazines pour la jeunesse et, en 1933, elle commence à travailler aux studios de cinéma UFA à Berlin (acronyme de Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft, une importante société cinématographique allemande qui a produit et distribué des films de 1917 jusqu'à la fin de l'ère nazie). En 1942, elle se marie et a deux enfants, Katrin et Christian. Elle divorce en perd la garde peu après. Les années suivantes, elle survit en écrivant des nouvelles pour des journaux et des pièces radiophoniques. Après la guerre, elle fait partie du groupe bohème de Berlin et commence à se faire appeler Unika (d'après sa tante Unika Pudor). Elle fréquente le milieu artistique autour du cabaret dada-surréaliste Die Badewanne (« La Baignoire »). En 1953, Unika Zürn rencontre l'artiste Hans Bellmer, dont les poupées interrogent le culte du corps parfait alors en vogue en Allemagne, et devient sa muse. Ils vivent ensemble à Paris pendant de nombreuses années, mais dans une relation conflictuelle. Unika Zürn se concentre sur la production d'anagrammes poétiques et de dessins, développant ainsi son propre style surréaliste multidimensionnel. À partir de la fin des années 1950, elle souffre de formes d'anxiété, diagnostiquées plus tard comme de la schizophrénie, et produit une multitude de documents textuels et visuels remarquables alors qu'elle séjourne dans des institutions psychiatriques en Allemagne et en France. De 1956 à 1964, Unika Zürn réalise quatre expositions personnelles de ses dessins et ses œuvres sont présentées à l'Exposition internationale du surréalisme. L'exploration de la dimension inconsciente perdra progressivement son aspect libérateur et positif pour aborder un moi tourmenté par des visions angoissantes. Ses difficultés psychologiques ont inspiré une grande partie de ses écrits, notamment Der Mann im Jasmin (L'Homme-Jasmin, 1971). Parmi les autres textes publiés par Unika Zürn figurent Hexentexte (1954) et Dunkler Frühling (Dark Spring, 1967). Unika Zürn est morte le 19 octobre 1970 à Paris, en se jetant du sixième étage.
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