Erica Pedretti

Erica Pedretti, née Schefter (born 25 February 1930, in Šternberk, Moravia, Czechoslovakia) is a Swiss author and artist.

Born in northern Moravia, Pedretti went to Switzerland in 1945. She studied art and has achieved a career as a writer, painter and sculptor. For a few years she lived in the United States, but in 1952 she returned to Switzerland, where she married the Swiss painter . Pedretti has published texts since 1970, and since 1976 she has worked as an artist, especially as a sculptor.

In 1984 Pedretti received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text The modell and his painter and in 1996 the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize for her novel Engste Heimat.

Further reading[]

• Valentina Glajar: Narrating History and Subjectivity: „Vergangenheitsbewältigung“ in Erica Pedretti's „Engste Heimat“ (1995). In: Glajar, The German Legacy in East Central Europe. As Recorded in Recent German Language Literature, pp. 72–114. Camden House, Rochester NY 2004
• Dolores Denaro (ed.): Erica Pedretti. Flügelschlag./The Beat of Wings. Mit Werkverzeichnis/ With catalogue raisonné. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien 2017, ISBN 978-3-903153-66-0.(Publication in German and English)

External links[]

• Publications by and about Erica Pedretti in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
• "Literary estate of Erica Pedretti". HelveticArchives. Swiss National Library.
• (in German)Portrait & Bibliography
• Entretien avec Erica Pedretti par Patricia Zurcher (French/German)

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