Annemarie Esche

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Annemarie Esche , née Rothe (born September 29, 1925 in Bockau / Erzgebirge ; † July 13, 2018 ) was a German philologist who published on Burmese literature and culture.

Life

Annemarie Esche graduated from high school in 1944 and worked as a teacher for German and Russian after the war. After studying German at the Potsdam University of Education from 1955 to 1959, she and her husband Otto Esche, teacher of German and physical education, decided to work abroad in the field of “German as a Foreign Language”. In 1960 they were offered the opportunity to set up the "German Institute" in Yangon as the GDR counterpart to the Goethe Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany. She was fascinated by the country and Myanmar became the center of her life.

She began studying the Burmese language as a German teacher in Burma . After her return from Myanmar in 1963, she was actively involved in setting up the new subject Burman Studies under the direction of Eberhardt Richter at the East Asian Institute of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1968 she did her doctorate on the myanma national poet Salay U Ponnya , and in the same year she published the first collection of myanma short stories in German under the title Der Markt von Pagan. Prose from Burma .

Her husband had meanwhile taken up a position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked at the diplomatic mission of the GDR in Myanmar from 1969 to 1979 with a one-year break. This gave Annemarie Esche, the accompanying wife, the opportunity to conduct intensive research on site.

After her return, Annemarie Esche took over the management of the Burman Studies department at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1978, with her dissertation, B Development tendencies of modern Burmese literature , she acquired the "Dr.sc." (corresponds to the habilitation) and in 1979 was appointed university lecturer.

Even after her retirement in 1986, she remained connected to the subject, supported her graduates who continued it, and enriched the teaching with seminars on Buddhism and culture, until the situation in the institute fundamentally changed in 1994 with the introduction of the new structure.

Annemarie Esche contributed to the compilation of a Burmese-German and a German-Burmese dictionary, which was published in 2011 by Buske Verlag Hamburg. On the occasion of the completion of the work, Annemarie Esche was honored with the Leibniz Medal in 2013 by the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin eV for her overall scientific achievement.

Publications

  • Pagan's market. Prose from Burma. Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt. 1968
  • Fairy tale of the peoples of Burma. Wiesbaden: Three lilies. 1976
  • Annemarie Esche: Burmese-German dictionary . 1st edition. VEB Verlag Encyclopedia, Leipzig 1976.
  • (Ed.) The Golden Monastery at Mandalay . Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1977, Insel-Bücherei number 1015
  • The Golden Pagoda: Shwedagon, a symbol of Buddhism. Hanau / Main: Müller & Kiepenheuer. 1985
  • Annemarie Esche, Eberhard Richter : Burmese exercise book . VEB Verlag Encyclopedia, Leipzig 1988.
  • "The experience of writing the first German-Myanmar dictionary." In Justin Watkins (ed.), Studies in Burmese Linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University: 307-318. 2005
  • Annemarie and Otto Esche : Dictionary German - Myanma . 1st edition. Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87548-609-4 (70,000 entries, 1040 pages). ( Preface )

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Obituary for Dr. sc.Annemarie Esche - accessed on October 21, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Esche, Annemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothe, Annemarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Burmanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockau , Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH 13th July 2018