Bernd-Jürgen Fischer

This article deals with the German linguist Bernd-Jürgen Fischer. For the American historian of the same name, see Bernd Jürgen Fischer .

Bernd-Jürgen Fischer (born August 16, 1943 in Gardelegen ) is a German linguist , translator and Proust specialist.

Life

After studying mathematics and physics at the Free University of Berlin , the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the Duke University in Durham , North Carolina , he studied linguistics and computer science at the TU Berlin (doctorate 1979). From 1974 to 1987 he worked as a lecturer at the Department of German Studies at the Free University of Berlin, interrupted by a one-year study visit at Stanford University . Since 1987 he has been working as a freelance author in Berlin. His main publications are his handbook for Thomas Mann's Joseph novels and his new translation of Marcel Proust's search for lost time .

Publications

• Sentence structure and meaning . Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1981
• Handbook to Thomas Mann's "Josephsromanen" . A. Francke, Tübingen 2002
• Trois places, trois femmes, trois métiers; Marcel Proust reading book . Edited and translated by Bernd-Jürgen Fischer. dtv bilingual, Munich 2002
• Alliance pénible; a delicate relationship . Edited and translated by Bernd-Jürgen Fischer. dtv bilingual, Munich 2003
• Marcel Proust: In search of lost time . Translation from French and notes by Bernd-Jürgen Fischer. 7 volumes. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013–2016

1. Towards Swann (2013)
2. In the shadow of a young girl's blossom (2014)
3. The Road to Guermantes (2014)
4. Sodom and Gomorrah (2015)
5. The Prisoner (2015)
6. The Escaped (2016)
7. Time found again (2016)

• Handbook for Marcel Proust's “In Search of Lost Time” . Reclam, Stuttgart 2017
• Proust for pleasure . Reclam, Stuttgart 2017
• Marcel Proust - Les Poèmes / The poems . Reclam, Stuttgart 2018
• Marcel Proust - Reynaldo Hahn / The correspondence . Reclam, Stuttgart 2018

Web links

• By no means wasted time. Fischer on his new translation of In Search of Lost Time . ReLÜ , 15, 2014
• Mysterious letters from the spin-Dr. Proust. Fischer to the Proust reception. Literaturkritik.de , October 2017
• Robert de Montesquiou and Marcel Proust - arrogance and irony in dialogue. Fischer on the correspondence between Proust and Montesquiou. Literaturkritik.de , March 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Isenschmid: New translation by Marcel Proust. Doctors' ballet on the deathbed. Zeit Online from November 14, 2013
2. ^ Rainer Moritz: Bernd-Jürgen Fischer dares to retransmit. Die Welt of October 27, 2013.