Doris Kilias

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Doris Kilias , b. Galuhn , married Erpenbeck (born July 22, 1942 in Rhein , Lötzen district , East Prussia ; † June 1, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German translator from Arabic into German .

After fleeing Masuria in 1945, Galuhn grew up with older siblings in Bernau near Berlin , where she decided to learn Arabic as a schoolgirl, inspired by visits to the library. She studied Arabic and Romance studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1965 , a. a. with Rita Schober .

She worked as an editor for the Arabic-language program of Radio Berlin International as well as for the Weimar contributions . She married the physicist John Erpenbeck and had a daughter in 1967. In 1968 she completed additional studies in Cairo , which meant that she had to leave her daughter behind in the GDR . After returning, she continued to work in East Berlin . In 1974 she received her doctorate on Egyptian short prose at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .

Since 1976 she has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Romance Studies at Humboldt University. 1984 followed in Berlin the habilitation on Algerian literature. During the GDR era, she began working as a translator for the Swiss Union publishing house . When, in the course of an evaluation in 1995, no faculty for Arabic studies was established at the Humboldt University , she was dismissed there and worked as a freelance translator in the following years .

Kilias translated works by Nagib Mahfuz , Mohamed Choukri , Gamal al-Ghitani , Miral Al-Tahawi , Rajaa Alsanea , Baha Taher , Ibrahim Aslan , Emily Nasrallah and other Arabic-speaking authors into German.

In 1999 she was awarded the Jane Scatcherd Prize of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation “for her precise translations of the novels of the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Nagib Mahfuz, which allow insight into a different culture ”.

Kilias was first married to the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck , with whom she has the daughter Jenny Erpenbeck . In 1987 she married the biologist Rudolf Kilias .

Fonts

  • The modern Egyptian short story: sociopolitical, national and literary-historical aspects. Diss. A, University of Leipzig 1974
  • The arabophonic literature as a component of the national literature of Algeria with special consideration of the specific conditions of the development of nation and national consciousness. Diss. B, Humboldt University, Berlin 1984

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SURNAME Kilias, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galuhn, Doris (maiden name); Erpenbeck, Doris (1st married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhine , Lötzen district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2008
Place of death Berlin