Edwin Maria Landau

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Edwin Maria Landau (born September 20, 1904 in Koblenz , † January 2, 2001 in Zurich ) was a German-Swiss literary translator and publisher.

Life

Landau's father Edwin was a councilor at the Koblenz district court and lived in the representative house Neustadt 4 opposite the courthouse . Landau studied literature, art history and philosophy and received his doctorate in 1927 on Karl Wolfskehl . After additional training as a publisher's bookseller from 1927 to 1929 and a position as manager's secretary at the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Berlin from 1929 to 1930, he founded the publishing house Die Runde in Berlin in 1931 with Wolfgang Frommel . The exclusion from the Reichsschrifttumskammer because of his Jewish origins meant that Landau had to give up his work in the publishing house in 1935.

Poster by Emmanuel Kirz : Landau gives lectures at Camp des Milles in 1942.

In January 1938 he emigrated to London and stayed in France on a return trip from Switzerland at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 . As a German he was interned in Camp de Gurs and was sent to the Les Milles camp in 1941 because a danger visa was available through Thomas Mann , but the trip to the USA failed. He was able to escape from the labor camp in Salin-de-Giraud , hid in a Catholic seminary for late-career workers and, after several attempts, received political asylum in Switzerland in March 1943 . His father died in 1941, his mother Julie Landau decided to commit suicide in Berlin on July 7, 1942 in view of the impending deportation . Landau's sister Ilse (* 1902), married to the district court director Friedrich Oppler , fled to Brazil in August 1940 .

Landau stayed in Switzerland after the end of the war, got married there and received Swiss citizenship in 1956 . He initially worked as a translator and editor of a German six-volume edition of the works of Paul Claudel and founded the Association Suisse des Amis de Paul Claudel in 1974 . The “Center Européen d'Etudes Paul Claudel” at the University of Zurich was later equipped with his collection of books and writings. Landau translated works by Thomas Corneille , Jean Racine , Molière , Stéphane Mallarmé , Jean Cocteau , John Hersey and Cardinal Jean Daniélou into German. From 1976 to 1983 he edited Reinhold Schneider's works and was President of the Reinhold Schneider Society since 1981 . In 1991 he and Samuel Schmitt edited a book with testimony about the internment camps in France, mainly about Gurs and Les Milles .

Landau was a member of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad .

Honors

Works

  • Karl Wolfskehl , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1928 (under the name Edwin Landau)
  • The miracle of change , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1928 (under the name Edwin Landau)
  • Homage , Berlin 1931 (under the name Edwin Landau)
  • Paul Claudel , Velber b. Hanover 1966
  • Reinhold Schneider, Friede - Geschichte - Glaube , Schwerte 1985 (together with Pirmin Meier and Carsten Peter Thiede )
  • Paul Claudel on German-speaking stages , Munich 1986
  • Lost ways, lasting ways , Paderborn 1994

Editing

  • Paul Claudel : Collected Works , Heidelberg
    • 1st poems , 1963
    • 2nd dramas , 1959
    • 3rd dramas , 1958
    • 4. Countries and Worlds , 1960
    • 5. Critical Writings , 1958
    • 6. Religion , 1962
  • Reinhold Schneider : Collected Works , Frankfurt am Main
    • 1. Camoes or the fall and consummation of Portuguese power , 1982
    • 2. The Archipelago , 1979
    • 3. The great renunciation , 1978
    • 4. Witnesses in the Fire , 1979
    • 5. Poetry , 1981
    • 6. The Living Spirit , 1980
    • 7. History and Landscape , 1980
    • 8. Sword and Peace , 1977
    • 9. The Indestructible , 1978
    • 10. The time within us , 1978
  • Reinhold Schneider : Diary , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Paul Claudel : Paul Claudel , Zurich 1988
  • Camp in France , Mannheim 1991 (published together with Samuel Schmitt)

Translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Landau, Edwin Maria, p. 260 .

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personal data
SURNAME Landau, Edwin Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landau, Edwin M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2001
Place of death Zurich