August Scholz (translator)
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 .
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
- Tolstoy: Anna Karenina ( novel )
- Tolstoy: Resurrection (novel)
- Tolstoy: Kreutzer Sonata ( short story )
- Tolstoy: Hadschi Murat (story), 1912 German first edition, S. Fischer Verlag Berlin
- Tolstoy: Die Macht der Finsternis (Drama), 1887 German first edition, S. Fischer Verlag
- Tolstoy: The Cossacks (short story)
- Tolstoy: In the Snowstorm (story)
- Tolstoy: Family Happiness (story)
- Tolstoy: Sevastopol (stories from the years 1852–1855)
- Tolstoy: The Living Corpse ( Drama )
- Tolstoy: Fruits of Education ( drama )
- Tolstoy: And the light shines in the darkness (drama)
- Tolstoy: So what should we do? Hugo Steinitz Verlag, 1891
- Dostoevsky: The Gambler (novel)
- Dostoevsky: The Karamazov Brothers (novel)
- Dostojewski: Der Idiot (novel), German first edition 1889, S. Fischer Verlag Berlin
- Dostoevsky: The husband
- Dostoevsky: The dead house
- Dostoevsky: The Cuckold (novel)
- Dostoyevsky: The soul of Russia
- Dostoevsky: A sensitive story
- Gorki: Nachtasyl ( play ), German first edition 1903
- Gorky: Summer Guests (Drama)
- Gorky: Wassa Schelesnowa (Drama)
- Gorky: Lost people
- Gorky: The Nun's Son (novel)
- Gorky: A Confession (novel)
- Gorky: Matvej Koshemjakin (novel)
- Gorky: A Summer (novel)
- Gorki: The Orlow couple (story), German first edition 1901, Bruno and Paul Cassirer Verlag Berlin
- Gorky: Children of the Sun (play)
- Gorky: Among Strangers (story)
- Gorky: My childhood
- Gorki: Drei Menschen (novel), German first edition 1902, Bruno and Paul Cassirer Verlag Berlin
- Gorky: My universities
- Gorky: The Compassion (New Novellas)
- Gorky: people have won (stories)
- Chekhov: The Seagull (play)
- Chekhov: The marriage proposal (play)
- Chekhov: Der Kirschgarten (play), German first edition 1918, J. Ladyschnikow Verlag Berlin
- Chekhov: Ivanov (play)
- Chekhov: Uncle Vanya (play)
- Chekhov: Three Sisters (play)
- Gogol: The Marriage (play)
- Gogol: The Auditor (play)
- Gogol: Fantasies and Stories
- Ivan A. Goncharov : The Gorge (novel)
- Leonid Andrejew: The Thought (Drama)
- Leonid Andrejew: The red laugh
- Leonid Andrejew: Ekaterina Ivanovna (drama)
- Björnstjerne Björnson : Synnöve Solbakken (story)
- Bjönstjerne Björnson: Master Tales
Web links
- Literature by and about August Scholz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Caricature.de
- August Scholz in the German Digital Library
- August Scholz in worldcat.org
Individual evidence
- ^ 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
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |