Berthold Zilly

Berthold Karl Zilly (born May 27, 1945 in Danndorf near Wolfsburg ) is a German translator , honorary professor for literary studies at the University of Bremen and was a lecturer at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin . Berthold Zilly is considered one of the most important German Brazilianists . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Life

Berthold Zilly studied Romance studies and received his doctorate with a thesis on The Miser of Molière . From 1974 to 2010 he was a lecturer for Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American literature at the Free University of Berlin, and has since been a visiting professor at Brazilian universities. In 2004 the University of Bremen appointed him honorary professor.

Berthold Zilly has three children. He has two brothers and a sister, the painter Ulrike Zilly . He is related to the trade unionist and member of the Reichstag, Heinrich Becker .

Honors

In 1995 he was awarded the Christoph Martin Wieland Prize and the Jane Scatcherd Prize for his translation of War in the Sertão by Euclides da Cunha .

In 2001 he received the Cruzeiro do Sul, the highest order in Brazil (commander).

In 2012 he was awarded the Martius Staden Prize as “recognition for his outstanding achievements as a mediator between Brazilian and German literature through his many years of work as a university teacher, translator and literary critic”.

In June 2018 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras .

In 2019, Zilly was awarded the Zug translator scholarship for the translation of the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa .

Works

Own writings and editorship

Molières “L'Avare”: The Structure of Conflicts . Diss., Schäuble, Rheinfelden 1979, ISBN 3-87718-714-5 .
(as editor, with Ligia Chiappini): Brazil, land of the past? TFM, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-925203-78-8 .
as editor, with Angela Mendes de Almeida and Eli Napoleão de Lima: De Sertões, desertos e espaços incivilizados . Mauad, Rio de Janeiro 2001.

Translations

Euclides da Cunha : War in the Sertão . Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40658-2 .
Mário de Sá-Carneiro : Lúcio's confession. Novel. Translated from Portuguese and with an afterword by Berthold Zilly. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-22267-8 .
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto : The sad end of the Policarpo Quaresma . Translated from the Portuguese. Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-250-10414-0 .
Raduan Nassar : The Patriarch's Bread . Translated from the Portuguese. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41615-4 .
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento : Barbarism and Civilization. The life of Facundo Quiroga . Translated into German and commented by Berthold Zilly. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-4580-7 .
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis : Diary of parting , translation: Berthold Zilly, Verlag Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-932109-55-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Press release from the Free University of Berlin

↑ Marcel Vejmelka: Berthold Zilly. Translation as criticism . In: Tópicos , ISSN 0949-541X , vol. 52 (2013), issue 1, p. 52.

↑ Eventos in the Martius Staden Institute, São Paulo ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 11, 2018. @1@ 2

↑ tradutor inglês Berthold Zilly é eleito Socio Correspondente since ABL na vaga do norte-americano professor Claude Hulet. In: org.br. Academia Brasileira de Letras, accessed July 16, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).

personal data
SURNAME	Zilly, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zilly, Berthold Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German translator, editor and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danndorf

[1] Press release from the Free University of Berlin

[2] Marcel Vejmelka: Berthold Zilly. Translation as criticism . In: Tópicos , ISSN 0949-541X , vol. 52 (2013), issue 1, p. 52.