Anni Carlsson

Anni Ruth Carlsson (née Rebenwurzel ; born November 1, 1911 in Charlottenburg ; † February 20, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German specialist and translator .

Life

Carlsson, daughter of a banker, studied philosophy , German philology and history at the universities of Berlin , Cologne and Basel from 1931 . In 1939 she received her doctorate from the latter on the philosophy of Novalis under Nicolai Hartmann and Herman Schmalenbach .

Carlsson married a Swede in the late 1930s and initially lived in Gothenburg and from 1939 in Stockholm . In 1950 she moved to Göttingen and did not return to Berlin until 1996.

Carlsson published works on German and Scandinavian literature and their relationships and literary criticism. She edited the correspondence between Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann (Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1968; numerous new editions and translations).

Carlsson has translated numerous works by Danish, Norwegian and Swedish authors into German, including the “Picture Book Without Pictures” and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen , the family story “When the Chestnuts Bloomed” by Verner von Heidenstam , stories by Eyvind Johnson , Selma Lagerlöf and August Strindberg , Books for children and young people by Maria Gripe and Birgitta Stenberg and poems by Karl Vennberg .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The fragments of the Novalis . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1939 (also dissertation ).
• Singing is existence: Rilke's spiritual journey from Prague to Muzot. A contribution to the typology of genius . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1949.
• The German book review from the Reformation to the present . Francke, Bern / Munich 1969.
• Devil, death and beastman. Fantastic realism as the historiography of the epoch . Athenäum-Verlag, Kronberg / Ts. 1978.
• Ibsen , Strindberg , Hamsun . Essays on Scandinavian literature . Athenäum-Verlag, Kronberg / Ts. 1978.
• Edvard Munch . Life and work . Belser, Stuttgart / Zurich 1984.

Essays

• To Hermann Hesse, an hour past midnight . In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau: Knowledge and Life , NF 10 (1942/43), pp. 54–57.
• Hermann Hesse's "Glass Bead Game" in his laws of life . In: Trivium. Swiss quarterly for literary studies and style criticism , 4 (1946), pp. 175–201.
• The myth in the nineteenth century . In: Schweizer Rundschau. Monthly magazine for intellectual life and culture , 47 (1947/48), pp. 510-515.
• New tasks in literary studies . In: Universitas: Orientation! Knowledge! Act! , 3 (1948), pp. 421-426.
• The fist motif in Thomas Mann . In: German contributions. Eine Zweimonatsschrift , 3 (1949), pp. 343–362.
• Goethe's “Faust” as a mythical worldview . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft and Geistesgeschichte , 23 (1949), pp. 433–448.
• The poet and reality . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , NF 1 (1950), pp. 316-318.
• Farewell to Nicolai Hartmann: Appreciation of the German philosopher and teacher at the University of Marburg . In: Schweizer Rundschau: Monthly for Spiritual Life and Culture , 51 (1951/52), pp. 219–225.
• Poetry as the hieroglyph of the age: Hermann Hesse's “Morgenlandfahrt” . In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau: Knowledge and Life , NF 20 (1952/53), pp. 165–168.
• Picture book without pictures: On van Gogh's letters . In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau: Knowledge and Life , NF 20 (1952/53), pp. 591–597.
• The art of the long sentence . In: Wirkendes Wort , 3 (1952/53), pp. 5-11.
• Literary metaphysics in the columnist age. Essay on contemporary literary criticism . In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau: Knowledge and Life , NF 21 (1953/54), pp. 74–85.
• The seabed in recent poetry. Modifications of a symbolic motif from HC Andersen to Th. Mann . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , 28 (1954), pp. 221–233.
• The mythical delusion of Richard Wagner . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft and Geistesgeschichte , Vol. 29 (1955), pp. 237-254.
• The modern poem and reality . In: Universitas: Orientation! Knowledge! Act! , 10 (1955), pp. 817-828.
• The German language and Thomas Mann . In: Universitas: Orientation! Knowledge! Act! , 12 (1957), pp. 617-628.
• The myth as a mask of Friedrich Nietzsche . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 39 NF 8 (1958), pp. 388–401.
• Aspects of Myth in the Nineteenth Century: Andersen and Ibsen . In: Wirkendes Wort , 9 (1959), pp. 36-43.
• The critic Thomas Mann . In: Universitas: Orientation! Knowledge! Act! , 22 (1967), pp. 1181-1188.
• Ibsenic tracks in the work of Fontane and Thomas Mann . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , 43 (1969), pp. 289–296.
• Endgame on Nietzsche's indoor stage. To Nietzsche's poem “Lamentation of Ariadne” from the “Dionysus dithyrambs” . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 52 (1972), pp. 180-185.
• Literature and Life: On Heimito von Doderer's Diaries . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 58 (1977), pp. 329-335.
• Rosmersholm - a contribution to the psychology of Ibsen's crime "Guilt and Atonement" . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft and Geistesgeschichte , 53 (1979), pages 544-566.
• From the fool to the master chef of the imagination. Model figures of storytelling 1494 to 1977 . In: Simpliciana , 2 (1980), pp. 53-69 and Simpliciana , 3 (1981), pp. 101-139.
• Willibald Alexis - a pioneer of the German novel . In: Journal for German Philology , 102 (1983), pp. 541-563.

Editorships

• Swedish folk tales . Verlag Der Greif, Wiesbaden 1953.
• Fables of the peoples from three millennia . L. Schneider, Heidelberg 1959.
• About the cat who was a witch. Fairy tales and magic stories from Scandinavia . Bertelsmann, Munich 1987.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Lexicon . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Volume 2: Brann - Einslin . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-25032-0 , p. 286.