(June 29, 2016) One hundred years ago, on July 14, 1916 in Palermo, Natalia Ginzburg was born. On July 5, the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin will pay tribute to one of the most significant writers of Italian twentieth century literature, whose work ranges from novels, short stories, plays and essays from which the film and theatre actress Mechthild Großmann will read excerpts. The event will be held at 19:00 in the courtyard of the Italian Embassy and in the case of bad weather at the Cultural Institute. The event will open by greetings from Carlo Ginzburg (illustrious historian and essayist, son of Natalia) and introduction by Susanne Schüssler. Formed in the intellectual antifascist environment of Turin, Natalia Ginzburg debuted in 1942 with a long story, “The Road to the City” under the pseudonym of Alessandra Tornimparte for racial reasons. She then published other long stories, novels (“All Our Yesterdays”, 1952, “Dear Michael”, 1973; “The City and the house”, 1984), two volumes between the wise and the autobiographical tale (“The Little Virtues “, 1962;” Family Sayings “, 1963) and one that is between an essay and a novel (” The Manzoni family “, 1983). Ginzburg also wrote theater pieces such as “I married you for happiness”, “Insertion”, “Secretary”, “Fishing Village”, etc., Gathered in the volumes “I married you for happiness and other comedies” 1966 and “Sea country”, 1973. In 2016, in celebration of the centenary of her birth, Domenico Scarpa published an anthology of never before published stories: “An absence. Stories, memories, chronicles 1933-1988 “(Einaudi). (Red)
