Diana Ivanova

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Full Name	Diana Ivanova
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1968(1968-03-19)
Age	56
Birthplace	Montana
Country	Bulgaria
Horoscope	Pisces

Diana Ivanova Biography

Diana Ivanova is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 19, 1968 in Montana, Bulgaria. Diana Ivanova (Bulgarian Diana Ivanova born on 19 March 1968 , in Montana, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. In her work, she’s interested in the intercultural dialogue between people from Bulgaria as well as other countries, particularly Germany. As curator and cultural manager she is committed for international understanding as well as exchange. Every year, she organizes in the northwestern part of Bulgaria an international festival of culture. As a group analysis analyst in Sofia as well as Bonn she focuses on traumas that were caused because of the political environment in both countries during the years prior to the transition of power in Europe and in Germany mostly by the people from the GDR.

Between 2004 and From 2004 until Ivanova collaborated with writers and poet Georgi Gospodinov, as well as the psychologist Rumen Petrov. The central theme of their project was what marks socialism has left in the minds of men, and what impact was it having on their lives and identities. 171 tales of Bulgarians from different years were collected. The site on which the stories were posted is no longer in existence, but they’re preserved in a volume bearing the words “in” Bulgarian the title for the initiative. An article on the internet of The Sofia Echo provides some of the stories that were cut down.

The project My street began with the waste crisis 2005 in Bulgaria. It was an opportunity to reflect on the importance of the road, in which people live and feel strange or at home. So Ivanova started initially in Bulgaria and later in Cuba bringing people together who wrote down their story with their street, took photos and then in personal encounter shared with each other. Although many at first did not know what to do with the offer, they developed step by step while participating in the project a new relationship with an environment in which they have always lived but previously had paid little attention.

Ivanova emphasizes “slow journalism”, as she calls it. Authenticity for her is essential. Journalism of this kind needs time and she is willing to take time. Against this background she is shaping her articles, her films and projects. Contentual focus of her work are the individual and collective traumas of the people in Bulgaria and Germany having been suffered by political circumstances. With her understanding of the trauma phrase she leans on the social psychologist Angela Kühner and the sociologist Kai Erikson, who understands a collective trauma as a “violation of the social tissue and the connections between people”. Cultural exchange and encounter groups are the chosen devices, by which she meets the traumas to prepare the ground for a better future. At the beginning of every project her look goes back to the past, which gives her information about the historical roots of the present and the actual experiences of the people. After her cycle Hello Melancholy was published in Capital weekly, she was awarded on August 16, 2005 by the Austria Press Agency in Vienna with the price Writing for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – for her text Mrs. Bulgarian, Ivan Milev and Gustav Klimt. In December 2013 Ivanova for the second time was invited on a scholarship for one month in the Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta in Feldafing. Among other things, she there showed the Films of the Bulgarian Ministry of State Security, which were presented in the Brotfabrik in Berlin too.

Since 1997, Ivanova has been in 1997 to Cuba. In 2009, she collected with Canadian-Iranian photographer Babak Salari stories and photos of street scenes and the people they live in. In all of her projects, the person’s identity was the main focus, as was the question was how it is affected by the surroundings and experiences. The result was 2010 as a first book , and 2012, a follow-up.

Diana Ivanova Net Worth

Diana Ivanova is one of the richest Writer from Bulgaria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diana Ivanova 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ivanova was a student of Cultural Anthropology in addition to Mass Communication at University of Sofia, where she graduated in 1991 with a master’s degree in Journalism. Following that, she worked as journalist from 1995 to 2003 when she was a moderator and reporter at Bulgarian National Television. Then, until 2003, she was Radio reporter in Radio Free Europe at Prague. The same year she finished her education as a cultural manager at the International Centre for Culture and Management (ICCM) with the University of Salzburg under Prof. Herwig Poeschl in Salzburg. In 2005, she was a Milena Jesenska scholar in the Institute of Human Sciences. 2014 was the year she finished her studies to become a Group Analyst in the International Association for Group Analysis (IAG) in Altaussee. Her dissertation examines the relationship between the elderly Italians in the same way as Bulgarian women who were forced to leave their homes in regions of no hope of finding employment to earn money through the assistance of elderly people in Italy however, they had lost contact with their home country. Since 2003, she is freelance journalist, including others, for n -ost, Dnevnik, Capital (Bulgaria), Abitare and Foreign Policy. She is also the manager of the New Culture Foundation and researched the film history from the Bulgarian security services, including Sofia, Berlin and Munich.

The time that Diana Ivanova went to school her birthplace was still sporting that name, Mihajlovgrad. The name was discarded in 1993 to be replaced by the name originally used Montana. The Local German high school that had friendship to Thuringian school Thuringian School at Schmalkalden in a Twinning arrangement, she graduated with the Abitur. She is a resident of Bonn in Bonn and Sofia.

Goat Milk is the name of an international cultural festival, Ivanova, together with the team of the New Culture Foundation organizes every year since 2004 in May as Festival of memories in the village of Gorna Bela Rechka in northwestern Bulgaria. Involved are the almost one hundred more than seventy- years-old residents of the village and artists from different nations – people who otherwise would not meet. In this way, Bela Rechka becomes a place of encounter, where the participants in joint designing the festival share stories, experiences and memories. The project is based on the question whether the cultural differences do separate people fundamentally or whether commonality and understanding are possible. For the inhabitants of the village and the participating guests and artists of the Goatmilk Festival this question already found an answer. At the same time it comes through the festival to a revitalization of this by poverty and loneliness embossed region of the country.

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On November 14, 2014 after four years of preparation, her 76 minutes long documentary Listen premiered in Sofia. It reports about Radio Free Europe (RFE), which broadcast from Munich from 1949 to 1995 but was banned in Bulgaria before the change in Europe. From 1995 to 2003 Ivanova had worked there. In Germany the film found his audience, for example, on 11 June 2015, at the America House (Munich). Here, two former employees from Radio Free Europe (RFE) were invited: Luben Mutafoff, formerly journalist there, and Richard H. Cummings, former head of security – both after the film in an interview with the director. Also in June 2015, the movie was shown at Giessen University that thereafter provided an opportunity for discussion with Ivanova. Also in the naTo in Leipzig and in the Brotfabrik in Berlin the film was shown, as well as in the Filmmuseum Potsdam, in Werkstattkino Munich and in Film Club 813 in Cologne. Outside Germany, the film was presented in Kosovo and Luxembourg. The film historian Claus Löser wrote about the film: “Diana Ivanova succeeds in her debut documentary ‘Listen’ a small miracle. She manages retrospectively to soften the entrenched positions of the European postwar order, without playing down the historical and current conflicts.” In the year of its formation Ivanova was awarded with the Best Director Award for LISTEN as best first film. The film was developed with the support of the Bulgarian National Film Center. After completing this film works, Ivanova turned researching the film archive of the Bulgarian State Security to what she received a grant from the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.

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