Cornelius Hell

Cornelius Hell (2019)

Cornelius Hell (born April 18, 1956 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian literary critic , translator and essayist .

Life

After studying German and theology, Cornelius Hell was lecturer for German language and Austrian literature at Vilnius University from 1984 to 1986 . Afterwards he was a publisher's editor and head of the reading lamp literary forum in Salzburg. From 1992 to 2005 he was a lecturer at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg; further teaching at the universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Klagenfurt. From 2002 to 2008 Hell was the feature editor of the Austrian weekly newspaper Die Furche . Hell is now the author of more than 200 programs for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, a juror for the ORF best list and a regular contributor to the journal Literatur und Critique ;

Catalog raisonné

• Without reading, life would be a mistake . Forays through literature from Meister Eckhart to Elfriede Gerstl. Special number, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-85449-523-9 .
• The iron wolf in the baroque labyrinth. Awakening Vilnius , Picus Verlag February 2009, ISBN 978-3854529514 .
• Reading is life , Wieser (2007), ISBN 978-3851295696
• Report about ghosts. Stories from Lithuania , Müller (Otto), Salzburg (2002), ISBN 978-3701310531
• The bull sacrifice. Stories from Lithuania , by Cornelius Hell (author), Antanas Gailius (author), Müller (Otto), Salzburg (May 2001), ISBN 978-3701307944
• Being a Christian at your own risk: Portraits and Perspectives , Thaur (1999), ISBN 978-3854000426
• Skepticism, mysticism and dualism. An introduction to the work of EM Ciorans , Bonn 1985, ISBN 978-3416018142

Translations from the Lithuanian

• Poems and prose by Eugenijus Ališanka , Laurynas Katkus and Herkus Kunčius . In: Europaexpress. A literary travel book. Edited by Thomas Wohlfahrt and Christiane Lange. Frankfurt am Main, Eichborn 2001, 181–197 and 554–558.
• Vytautas Kubilius , literature in freedom and bondage. Lithuanian literature from the founding of the state to the present day. (Translated together with Lina Pestal) Oberhausen, Athena Verlag 2002
• Poems by Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas , Algimantas Mackus , Vytautas Bložė and Nijolė Miliauskaitė in issue 5 / October 2002 of Akzente magazine
• Antanas A. Jonynas , poppy ash / Aguonų pelenai. Poems / Eilėraščai. Oberhausen / Vilnius, Athena Verlag / Verlag Vaga, 2002
• Laurynas Katkus, “Roadside break. A word of thanks to the French geographers ”. In: Passages. Pro Helvetia Culture Magazine No. 36 (Spring 2004), 34–41
• Poems by Rimvydas Stankevičius , Kornelijus Platelis , Donaldas Kajokas , Antanas A. Jonynas, Birutė Mar and Daiva Čepauskaitė for the homepage www.lyrikline.org
• Piece “Madagascar” by Marius Ivaškevičius for the performance at the Wiener Festwochen 2005
• Poems by Tautvyda Marčinkevičiutė . In: Top 22 Part II "the only way is up ..." edited by Wolfgang Kühn. Edition Aramo, Krems / Stein 2005, 246–266
• "The neighbor". Piece in three acts by Marius Ivaškevičius. In: New Dramas. Eastern European theater. An anthology. Project International Theater Institute of UNESCO - Center Austria. KulturKontakt Austria. Österreichischer Bühnenverlag Kaiser & Co. Volume 1 Ed. Helga Dostal . Vienna 2006, 13–77 ISBN 978-3-9502263-0-0
• Sigitas Parulskis , Three Seconds of Heaven (excerpt). In: Krachkultur issue 11/2007, 65–70
• Vytautas Toleikis , repression, coming to terms with , memory. The Jewish heritage in Lithuania. In: Eastern Europe, Volume 58 / Issue 8–10 (August – October 2008), 455–464
• Edition of volume 2/2009 “Reading Lithuania” of the literary magazine Die Rampe - in it translations of the poetry by Jonas Mekas and Dovilė Zelčiūtė , of prose texts by Vanda Juknaitė , Giedra Radvilavičiūtė , Jonas Mekas, Markas Zingeris and Herkus Kunčius as well as an excerpt from the drama by Sigitas Paritas . The volume also contains an extensive conversation with Tomas Venclova .

Awards

• 1996 Austrian State Prize for Science Journalism
• 2004 Officer's Cross of the Order for Services to the Republic of Lithuania and Prize of the Lithuanian Writers' Association for translations of poetry into a foreign language
• 2003 and 2007 translation bonus from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 2007 Honorable recognition for the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis
• 2018 State Prize for Literary Translation

Web links

• Literature by and about Cornelius Hell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article on Budapest Book by Cornelius Hell

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1. ↑ Austrian Society for Literature ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2010 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. ;  
2. ^ Austrian state prizes for literary translation for Cornelius Hell and Maja Badridse. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .