Christian Grawe

Christian Grawe (* 1935 in Stettin ) is a German Germanist and translator.

Life

Grawe studied German, philosophy and history at the universities in Cologne , Bonn, Berlin (FU) and Kiel. With a thesis on the cultural anthropology of Herder, he received his doctorate in 1966 at the Free University in Berlin. Since 1976 he has taught German at the University of Melbourne and from 1989 until his retirement as a professor.

The focus of his research is the work of Theodor Fontane . Together with his wife Ursula Grawe, he has translated six novels by Jane Austen into German, which have been published by Reclam Verlag since 1980. He edited Austen's letters and wrote her biography.

Fonts (selection)

Grawe published commentaries on Goethe's Torquato Tasso and Schiller's dramas Maria Stuart , The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa and The Robbers in the Reclam series “Explanations and Documents” , as well as the volume “Fontane's Novellas and Romanes”, which was published several times. He also published articles in Germanistic journals.

• Herder's cultural anthropology . Phil. Diss. Berlin 1966. Bouvier, Bonn 1967. (Treatises on philosophy, psychology and pedagogy. 35)

• Language in prose work: examples from Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Bergengruen, Kleist and others. Johnson . Bouvier, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-416-00958-4 .

• Guide to Fontane's novels: a dictionary of people, settings and works of art. Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-548-04603-7 .

• With Helmuth Nürnberger (Ed.): Fontane-Handbuch . Kröner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-520-83201-1 .

• Who dares, Knappersmann or Ritt? Schiller parodies from two centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00684-0 .

• The magic is always in the details . Studies on Theodor Fontane and his work 1976–2002. (Otago German studies. 16). Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2002, ISBN 0-9583726-6-7 .

• Darling Jane . Jane Austen, a biography. Reclam, Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-15-020206-7 .

Translations (selection)

together with Ursula Grawe

• Jane Austen : Emma . Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice . Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: Northanger Monastery . Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park . Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: Persuasion . Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: Mind and Emotion . Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: The beautiful Cassandra . All youth works. Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Jane Austen: I am so kind to write to you again. Letters. With further letters and documents from family and friends. Ed. U. trans. together with Ursula Grawe. Reclam, Stuttgart.
• Mary Shelley : Frankenstein . Reclam, Stuttgart.

literature

• Tim Mehigan, Gerhard Sauder (ed.): Novels and aesthetics in the 19th century . Festschrift for Christian Grawe on his 65th birthday. (Saarbrücker contributions to literary studies. 69) 2001, ISBN 3-86110-259-5 .