CKCU Literary News
Wednesday April 10th, 2024 with Hans G. Ruprecht
Dr. Sabine DOERING, Prof. of modern German literature at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, presenting her new book FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN / Biographie seiner Jugend (Wallstein, 2022) at the Hölderlin Haus in Lauffen a/Neckar (Baden-Württemberg).
Dr. Sabine DOERING, Prof. of modern German literature at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, now retired, who served as the president of the International Hölderlin Society, presenting her new book FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN / Biographie seiner Jugend (Wallstein Verlag, 2022.) From which she read selected passages. The event took place at the Hölderlin Haus in Lauffen a/Neckar (Germany) on March 20, 2024, celebrating the poet's 254th day of birth in Lauffen.
More about Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843):
"Poetry At The Threshhold: Reflections On A New Hölderlin Translation," by Charles Bambach. Ahenaeum Review, Issue 2 (Summer 2019).
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/poetry-at-the-threshold-reflections-on-a-new-holderlin-translation/#:~:text=The%20translator%2C%20David%20Constantine%2C%20is,the%20frame%20of%20English%20verse.
'Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected Poems', translated by David Constantine (Bloodaxe Books; 2nd edition; 1996).
"The list of new Hölderlin translations since 2008 includes:
•Ross Benjamin, trans. Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece (Brooklyn: Archipelago Books, [2008);
•Nick Hoff, trans., Friedrich Hölderlin: Odes and Elegies (Middleton.: Wesleyan University Press, 2008).;
•David Farrell Krell, trans., Friedrich Hölderlin: The Death of Empedocles (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008);
•Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover, trans., Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (Richmond: Omnidawn, 2008);
•Jeremy Adler and Charlie Louth, trans., Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters (London: Penguin, 2009), and
•Emery George, trans., Friedrich Hölderlin: Selected Poems (Princeton: Kylix Press, 2012).
See also the excellent study by Charlie Louth, Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation (Oxford: Legenda, 1998)." Credit: Charles Bambach.
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