Danae Coulmas

Danae Coulmas (Δανάη Κουλμάση, born Pavlapoulou ; * 1934 in Athens ) is a Greek publicist, writer and translator.

After studying Romance studies, philosophy and modern Greek philology, which she completed in Hamburg in 1966 with the dissertation The Apocalyptic in Victor Hugo's lyric work , Coulmas worked as a research assistant at the Romance seminar at the University of Hamburg. From 1969 to 1974 she worked as an editor for the Greek service of Deutsche Welle in Cologne and campaigned against the Greek military dictatorship with radio broadcasts and publications in magazines such as Poetica and Merkur . In 1974 she gave the anthology of anti-dictatorial texts The Execution of the Myth took place in the early morning. New texts from Greece .

After the collapse of the military dictatorship, she joined the Greek diplomatic service and was press and cultural adviser at the Greek embassy in Bonn from 1975 to 1998.

Her main focus in these years and afterwards was and is the dissemination of Greek literature in German-speaking countries.

Coulmas has lived with the German journalist Klaus Rainer Röhl since the 1960s , who divorced his then wife Ulrike Meinhof because of her. However, she remained married to the publicist Peter Coulmas until his death .

In 2013 she was awarded the Ring of Honor of the German-Greek Societies .

Works (selection)

Independent works and dependent writings

• Schliemann and Sophia: A love story . Piper Verlag, Munich 2001, paperback edition 2003, 2nd edition 2007. - (historical novel)
  • Greek edition: Σλήμαν και Σοφία: μια ιστορία αγάπης , Kastaniotis Verlag, Athens 2006.
• Numerous studies, essays, articles, radio broadcasts mainly on contemporary Greek literature (selection):
  • Athens '41. Peter Coulmas in the "German Scientific Institute" , in: Chryssoula Kambas , Marilisa Mitsou (ed.), Hellas understand. German-Greek cultural transfer in the 20th century . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010, excerpts online .
  • Hellenism as a cultural achievement , in: Alexander von Bormann (Hrsg.), Non-simultaneities of European Romanticism . Würzburg 2006 ( Foundation for Romantic Research , Vol. XXXIX), excerpts online .

Editorships

• (Ed.): Greek poetry of the 20th century . Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag 2001.
• (Ed.): Anthology of Greek stories of the 20th century . Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag 1991, second edition 2001.
• (Ed.): The execution of the myth took place in the early morning: New texts from Greece . Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer Verlag 1973.

Translations

• Siranna Sateli, they return by the light of the wolf . Kiepenheuer and Witsch Verlag, Cologne 1997.
• Giorgos Seferis, Secret Poems . Romiosini Verlag, Cologne 1985.
• Jorgos Chimonás, Aineias and Mythistorima in My Travels - Mythistorima . Romiosini Verlag , Cologne 1984.

Web links

• Literature by and about Danae Coulmas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Danae Coulmas at the Greek Cultural Foundation