Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (born June 23, 1901 in Istanbul ; † January 24, 1962 there ) was a Turkish writer and university professor. He was best known for his work Huzur (German: "Peace of Mind", published in 1949).

Influences

Tanpınar was significantly influenced by poets such as Marcel Proust , Charles Baudelaire , Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry , in particular Valéry's thoughts on the aesthetics and philosophy of the arts influenced his literary development. He read Arthur Schopenhauer , Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson at a young age. His fatherly friend, the Turkish poet Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884-1958) exerted a great influence on him.

career

The decision to become a writer was made when he met the poet Yahya Kemal Beyatlı as a student : With rich spiritual experiences and at the same time driven by a thirst for knowledge, Tanpınar went to Istanbul in 1918 and only began studying pedagogy, switched to literary studies because Kemal Beyatli (1884–1958), the then already famous poet, taught in this subject. Yahya Kemal helped him "from the world of feelings into the world of thinking".

After completing his studies in 1923, Tanpınar worked as a high school teacher in Erzurum, Konya and Ankara until 1932, and later as a university teacher. After returning to Istanbul, he taught at the famous grammar school in Kadıköy , after the death of the poet Ahmet Hasims he became his successor: teacher of art history, mythology and aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts ( Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi ). In 1939, on the centenary of the Tanzimat decree, the then Minister of Culture Hasan Ali Yücel appointed him professor for Turkish literature during the Tanzimat period at the University of Istanbul . Tanpınar became an outstanding, versatile and competent operator of literary research and expressed his poetic note on this faculty for the time of his activity.

From 1942 to 1946, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was a member of the Republican People's Party , then a school inspector for a short time. He then headed the chair for modern literature at the Turkish Institute of Istanbul University until his death. He is buried next to his friend Yahya Kemal Beyatlı in the Aşiyan Mezarlığı cemetery below the Rumeli Hisarı fortress .

Appreciations

Orhan Pamuk , the Nobel laureate in literature, described Huzur as the most important novel ever written about Istanbul. Stefan Weidner , editor-in-chief of the magazine Fikrun wa Fann , called the novel in a review in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit a “Turkish magic mountain ”.

Works

Tanpınar published except for a few poems, a novel, a few articles and essays, only in the daily press and in literary magazines. His only volume of poetry was published in 1961 and contained 37 poems. Nevertheless, he is primarily considered a poet. His satirical novel Huzur (Peace of Mind) appeared before his death in 1949; all other novels were published posthumously. His novel Das Uhrenstellinstitut was also published in German by Hanser Verlag in 2008.

  • 1943 Stories in the volume Abdullah Efendinin Rüyaları (The Dreams of Abdullah Efendis)
  • 1946 essay volume Beş Şehir (Five Cities), was partially filmed
  • 1946 Yahya Kemal
  • 1949 Huzur (Peace of Mind). Unionsverlag, 2008 ISBN 978-3-293-10013-8
  • 1955 collection of short stories Yaz Yagmuru (summer rain, the cover story was also made into a film)
  • 1962 Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Watchmaking Institute ). Fischer Taschenbuch 2010 ISBN 978-3-596-18583-2
  • 1967 Edebiyat Üzerine Makaleler (article on literature)
  • 1970 Yaşadığım Gibi (How I Lived)
  • 1973 Creampie Dısındakiler (Those away from the stage)
  • 1975 Mahur Beste (remained unfinished)
  • 1979 Aydaki Kadın (The Woman in the Moon, also unfinished), was first published in the Journal of Turkish Studies , No. 3, Harvard 1979, by Güler Güven and was published in 1987 in book form in Istanbul.

His letters were made accessible by the Turkologist Zeynep Kerman, who arranged the more than 4,000 pages long manuscripts (mostly in Arabic script) and edited some of them herself.

translation

literature

  • Beatrix Caner: Tanpinar's Harmony . Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • Zehra Gülmüs: Translation process for literary translation. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novel “The Clock Making Institute” . Row: TranSüd. Work on the theory and practice of translation and interpreting, 98. Frank & Timme , Berlin 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatrix Caner: Turkish Literature - Modern Classics . Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim 1998, pp. 319-320
  2. ↑ Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar . Pearl divers
personal data
SURNAME Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1962
Place of death Istanbul