Armin Eidherr

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Armin Eidherr (born January 1, 1963 in Wels ) is an Austrian Yiddist , Germanist and writer .

Life

Eidherr studied Classical Philology and Art History from 1983/84, and German and Romance Studies from 1984 to 1993 in Salzburg. In 1994/95 he worked as a teacher at the Colegio Alemán in Villarrica , Chile ; 1995 to 1998 as an exchange lecturer for German studies in Pisa , Italy . Since autumn 1998 he has lived and worked in Salzburg as a translator, writer and from 1999 as a university lecturer at the Institute for German Studies.

In 2000 he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation by the German Academy for Language and Poetry because, as the jury stated, “he translated very different works of Yiddish literature into German with empathy and imagination Above all, as the editor of the Yiddish Library, he ensures that this literature in the diversity of its facets is present in German for today's reader. "

In 2001 and 2002 he worked on the now completed research project “Austrian writers in exile since 1933”. Since January 10, 2005 he has been working as a research assistant at the Center for Jewish Cultural History at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg .

In the summer semester of 2007 he accepted a visiting professorship for Yiddish studies at the Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna . Since March 1, 2008 he has been a research assistant at the Department of German Studies (Modern German Literature).

Research and teaching focus

  • German-Jewish literature and exile literature
  • German-language literature from the 18th to the 20th century
  • translation
  • Yiddish Studies (Yiddish language, literature and culture)
  • Jewish cultural history
  • Modern Sephardic seal

Teaching activities u. a. in Poland, Germany and Austria.

Publications (selection)

  • German studies - Yiddish studies - Jewish studies. Studies on interdisciplinary Yiddish research. Transcription Problems and Chrestomacy . (Diploma thesis, unpublished). University of Salzburg 1989
  • Aspects of literary translation from Yiddish into German. Dissertation. Salzburg 1993
  • Editor & Translator: Gehat hob ikh a heym - I had a home '. Contemporary Yiddish poetry. Eye, Landeck (Tirol) ISBN 3901735054 . Bilingual anthology
  • Armin Eidherr (ed.): Horses in world literature, Manesse Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-7175-1996-4
  • Armin Eidherr, M. Mittermayer (ed.): Thomas Bernhard in Turkey . ÖKI, Istanbul 2002
  • Armin Eidherr, Karl Müller (ed.): Yiddish culture in Austria . Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna 2003
  • Armin Eidherr, Gerhard Langer , Karl Müller (Eds.): Diaspora. Exile as a Crisis Experience: Jewish Balance Sheets and Perspectives. Drava, Klagenfurt 2006
  • Chilufim . Journal of Jewish Cultural History . Salzburg. Editor zs. with Gerhard Langer, Albert Lichtblau , Maria Ecker and Karl Müller: number (01/2006); 2nd number (02/2007); 3rd number (03/2007); 4th number (04/2008) and others
  • Sunset on icy-blue paths. To address the diaspora and language in Yiddish literature of the 20th century. Poetics, Exegesis and Narrative. V&R , Göttingen 2012 ISBN 3899719948

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notes

  1. ↑ in the bibliography a detailed list of numerous relevant publications by AE
personal data
SURNAME Oath, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Yiddist, Germanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish