August Scholz (translator)

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August Scholz

August Scholz (born September 27, 1857 in Imielin , † October 8, 1923 in Berlin ) was a translator and writer . He also worked under the pseudonym Thomas Schäfer .

Scholz's grave in the Old St. Michael Cemetery in Berlin-Neukölln.

life and work

August Scholz is best known as Gorky's translator , but has also made a name for himself as a journalistic mediator of Russian literature . He learned the Russian language in contact with Russian classmates . In the 1870s he first studied law in Berlin and then switched to Nordic and finally Slavonic philology . At first he wrote under the pseudonym Thomas Schäfer . Until 1913 Scholz was a teacher at a Berlin middle school.

Scholz met Gorky as early as 1901 on a trip to Russia . He was the only translator Gorky authorized to translate. He was also acquainted with Leonid Andreyev . Scholz has earned a high reputation for translations by Ryleev , Gogol , Dostoyevsky , Tolstoy , Kolzow , Chekhov and Leonid Andrejew.

Pieces translated by Scholz are still performed on German theaters, such as Maxim Gorki's Summer Guests in 2013, directed by Alvis Hermanis at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, or in 2016 Nikolai Gogol's comedy Der Revisor , directed by Sebastian Hartmann at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . August Scholz is the grandfather of the German author Achim Scholz .

Honors

His grave was designated as an honorary grave of the city of Berlin from 1990 to 2015 .

Translations

Web links

Wikisource: August Scholz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Eichler (Ed.): Slavic Studies in Germany from the Beginnings to 1945: A biographical lexicon , Domowina-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-74201538-9 . P. 353
  2. ↑ Jürgen Lehmann: Russian Literature in Germany: Their Reception by German-Language Writers and Critics from the 18th Century to the Present , Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-47605373-2 . P. 145
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Thomas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator of Russian literature
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Imielin
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1923
Place of death Berlin