Annemarie Horschitz-Horst

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Annemarie Hulda Julie Horschitz-Horst , née Rosenthal , (born September 22, 1899 in Berlin , † July 1970 near Vienna ) was a German translator .

Horschitz-Horst had married Walter Horschitz-Horst in Berlin in 1921 , with whom she had a daughter and from whom she later divorced. As a Jew, she was unable to continue working as a translator in Nazi Germany and emigrated to London in 1933.

Annemarie Horschitz-Horst became known as Ernest Hemingway's German translator . She was the author's only authorized translator of his works into German. The Rowohlt publishing house , first published in 1928 its transfer of Hemingway's Fiesta .

However, their translations were controversial in the professional world. Hemingway was asked while he was still alive whether he would agree to another. Since the sale of his books in German-speaking countries was very successful, he saw no reason for it. In 1965, the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki addressed Horschitz-Horst's responsibility for the reception of Hemingway in German-speaking countries at a specialist translators conference with the question: “Hemingway had a style-forming influence on a generation of German writers. Who actually practiced it - Hemingway or his German translator Annemarie Horschitz-Horst? "

In 2012 the Rowohlt-Verlag published Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea in a new translation by Werner Schmitz .

literature

  • Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea . Authorized translation by Annemarie Horschitz-Horst, 20th edition, Rowohlt Taschenbuch rororo 22601, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-499-22601-4 ; New edition and new translation by Werner Schmitz, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-03020-9 (= Belletristik BV 03020).

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Individual evidence

  1. Marcel Reich-Ranicki: traitors, bridge builders, orphans. In: Rolf Italiaander (ed.): Translate. Lectures and contributions from the International Congress of Literary Translators in Hamburg 1965. Frankfurt and Bonn 1965, p. 72