Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (born October 16, 1930 in Rădăuți , Romania ; died July 29, 1986 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli literary scholar, poet and translator of Romanian origin.
Life
Dan Pagis was born in 1930 as a Romanian Jew into a German-speaking family. The father emigrated to Palestine alone in 1934 in order to build a new existence for the family, but the mother died that same year. Pagis grew up with his grandparents in Rădăuți. In 1941 he was deported with other Jews to the Ukraine, which was conquered by Romania, where he was imprisoned in ghettos and used for forced labor. He escaped from concentration camp imprisonment in 1944.
Pagis emigrated to Palestine in 1946, where his father placed him in Kibbutz Merchawia , where, after he had learned Ivrit , he was employed as a teacher. He studied linguistics at the Hebrew University , received his doctorate and was a professor of medieval Hebrew literature . He published four studies on Hebrew literature as well as anthologies on medieval Hebrew poetry. He edited a critical edition of David Vogel's works. He was multilingual and also translated into Ivrit.
In 1959 he published his first volume Lyric Sheon ha-Tsel . Pagis wrote eight volumes of poetry.
Fonts (selection)
- The crown of creation. Selected poems , Hebrew-German. Translation Anne Birkenhauer . Straelen: Straelener Ms.-Verlag, 1990 ISBN 978-3-89107-026-0
- Fictional man. Poems , Hebrew-German. Translation by Tuvia Rübner . Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 1993 ISBN 978-3-633-54083-9
- On both banks of time. Selected poems and prose , Hebrew - German. Translation Anne Birkenhauer. Straelen: Straelener Ms.-Verlag, 2003 ISBN 978-3-89107-050-5
- Five Poems by Dan Pagis (1930–1986), YadVashem.org , accessed April 11, 2018
literature
- Karin Lorenz-Lindemann : The doors of question-and-answer are locked. Lament in the work of Paul Celan , Dan Pagis and Tuvia Rübner . In: Yearbook for Biblical Theology (JBTH), 16. Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001, pp. 233–266. (not viewed)
- Karin Lorenz-Lindemann : On both banks of time. Life and work of the Hebrew poet Dan Pagis. In: Orientation . 68 (2004), Issue 5, pp. 50–53 (PDF available on the magazine's website)
- Harald Hartung : Three poets from Israel: Tuvia Rübner, Dan Pagis, Asher Reich , in: Merkur , December 1993, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 1091-1096 (not viewed)
Web links
- Literature by and about Dan Pagis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Dan Pagis in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Dan Pagis , at Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the biography with Karin Lorenz-Lindemann: On both banks of the time , 2004, there no information on the names before 1946.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pagis, Dan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli literary scholar, poet and translator of Romanian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rădăuți , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1986 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |