Agis Sideras
Agis Sideras (born July 21, 1974 in Göttingen ) is a German-Greek literary scholar and translator .
Sideras, the son of the Byzantist Alexander Sideras and the neo-Greekist Paraskevi Sidera-Lytra, studied German , philosophy and classical philology in Heidelberg and received his doctorate with a study on the poetologies of Paul Celan and Gottfried Benn . In 2007 he and his mother won the Greek State Prize for Literary Translation (for an annotated translation of two short stories by Georgios Vizyinos ).
Sideras published numerous articles in German and Greek media. He is also committed to the work of the Greek author Alexandros Kotzias .
Works (selection)
- Paul Celan and Gottfried Benn. Two poetologies after 1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
- Alexandros Kotzias. The ignored master of Greek prose , in: Göttingen Contributions to Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology , Issue 6/7 (2006/07).
- Stroll through old Athens . Preface. Publisher of the Greek Newspaper, Athens 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Agis Sideras in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sideras, Agis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Greek writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |