Ervin Fritz


Ervin Fritz is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator. He also writes poetry for children, radio plays, songs and librettos. He started publishing poetry in the mid-1960s.
Fritz was born in Prebold in 1940. He studied Dramaturgy at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and worked as dramatourge at TV Ljubljana and Radio Slovenia.
In 1979 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his poetry collection Okruški sveta and in 2006 he received the Veronika Award for the poetry collection Ogrlica iz rad.

Selected works

Poetry collections

Hvalnica življenja, 1967Dan današnji, 1972Okruški sveta, 1978Pesmi, 1980Minevanje, 1982Dejansko stanje: Pesmi in songi, 1985Slehernik, 1987Črna skrinjica, 1991Pravzaprav pesmi, 1995Favn:Pesmičice kosmatičice, 1998Tja čez:Soneti, 2002Pesmi: Zgodnja, zrela in pozna trgatev: jagodni izbor, 2002Ogrlica iz rad, 2005Drugačen svet, 2008Dolgi pohod, 2010

Poetry collections for children

Dimnikar je črn grof, 1984Svet v naprstniku, 1992Mavrica Mavra, 1993Števila, 1993Nasprotja, 1993Moj dan, 1993Barve, 1994Liki, 1994Vrane, 2007

Prose for children

Devet zgodb in deseta desetnica, 1996Sreča in nesreča, 2010

Plays

Farse, 1973Mirakel o sveti Neži, 1977Kralj Malhus, 1988Lipicanija, 2000Rdeči kotiček, 2009Srčevje svetega Andreja, 2009Krpanova kobila, opera libretto 2010

Radio plays

Komisija za samomore, 1984Stoli, 1984Kralj Malhus, 1986Karantena, 1988Ta veseli dan ali Cefizelj se ženi, 1990Zmaj v Postojnski jami, 1990Mirakel o sveti Neži, 1991Krompir ali Kregarca in ljudska oblast, 1993

Radio plays for children

Zajček Peter, 1985Sin polka, 1986Grofič prašič, 1991Gorski škrat, 1991Črna baba in povodni mož, 1991Modra Barbica, 1992Legenda o Jezusu in svetem Petru, 1992Papagaj kralja Matjaža, 1994