Anita Raja

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Anita Raja (born 1953 in Naples ) is an Italian translator .

Life

Anita Raja is the daughter of Golda Petzenbaum, a Jew, who fled the German Reich to Italy in 1937, and of the Neapolitan Renato Raja. She grew up in Rome from 1956 and studied literature. Raja is married to the writer Domenico Starnone . In 2016, it was claimed that she was the author of the novels published under the pen name Elena Ferrante .

Raja has translated literary works from German into Italian, including many works by Christa Wolf . Her translations also include works by the writers Hermann Hesse , Ilse Aichinger , Irmtraud Morgner , Sarah Kirsch , Christoph Hein , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Veit Heinichen and Bertolt Brecht . She wrote numerous articles on Italian and German literature and the problems of translation. In 2008 she received the German-Italian translator award .

Translations (selection)

  • Irmtraud Morgner : Nozze a Costantinopoli . Introduction Lia Secci. Rome: Ed. e / o, 1982 ( wedding in Constantinople )
  • Christa Wolf : Premesse a Cassandra: quattro lezioni su come nasce un racconto . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1984 ( requirements for a story: Kassandra. Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen )
  • Christa Wolf: Guasto: notizie di un giorno . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1987 ( Störfall. News one day )
  • Christa Wolf: Recita estiva . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1989 ( summer piece )
  • Christa Wolf: Cassandra . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1990 ( Kassandra )
  • Christa Wolf: Che cosa resta . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1991 ( what remains )
  • Christa Wolf: Trama d'infanzia . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1994 ( childhood pattern )
  • Franz Kafka : Il processo . Introd. Bruno Schulz . Milan: Feltrinelli, 1995 ( The Trial )
  • Christa Wolf: Congedo dai fantasmi . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1995 ( On the way to Tabou. Texts 1990–1994 )
  • Christa Wolf: Medea: voci . Afterword by Anna Chiarloni . Rome: Ed. e / o, 1996 ( Medea: voices )
  • Christa Wolf: In carne e ossa . Rome: Ed. e / o, 2002 ( incarnate )
  • Translation with Kristina Pietra: Ingeborg Bachmann : Quel che ho visto e udito a Roma . Macerata: Quodlibet, 2002 ( What I saw and heard in Rome )
  • Veit Heinichen : I morti del Carso . Rome: Ed. e / o, 2004 ( The Dead from the Karst )
  • Christa Wolf: La città degli angeli ovvero the overcoat of Dr. Freud . Rome: Ed. e / o, 2011 ( City of Angels or the overcoat of Dr. Freud )
  • Christa Wolf: August: racconto . Rome: Ed. e / o, 2012 ( August. story )
  • Christa Wolf: Parla, so ti vediamo: saggi, discorsi, interviste . Rome: Ed. e / o, 2015
  • Georg Büchner : La morte di Danton . Turin: Einaudi, 2016 ( Danton's death )
  • Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm : I musicanti di Brema . Illustrations Claudia Palmarucci. Rome: Orecchio Acerbo, 2012 ( The Town Musicians of Bremen )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : The real woman behind Elena Ferrante , in: FAZ , October 2, 2016
  2. ^ A b Claudio Gatti: Die deutsche Spur , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 2, 2016, p. 41 and the same, in: FAZ , October 4, 2016, p. 11
  3. ↑ Claudio Gatti: The Story Behind a Name , NYR, October 10, 2016 (en)
  4. ↑ Gundula Werger: Golda Petzenbaum , in: der Freitag , January 19, 2017, p. 17
  5. ^ Claudio Gatti: Who is Elena F.? In: FAS, October 2, 2016, pp. 41–42
personal data
SURNAME Raja, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples