Elisabeth Markstein
Elisabeth Markstein (born Elisabeth Koplenig ; born April 18, 1929 in Vienna ; † October 15, 2013 there ) was an Austrian Slavist , translator and author.
Life
Markstein was the daughter of the historian Hilde Koplenig (born in Oppenheim) and the politician and long-time KPÖ chairman Johann Koplenig . 1933 her parents were due to the Dollfuss regime in the ground . She spent part of her childhood in Prague , Switzerland and from 1936 in Moscow at the Hotel Lux , where the Soviet Union quartered political emigrants. In the summer of 1945 she returned to Austria with her parents; She passed her A-levels in Moscow, which is why she returned.
Markstein studied Slavic Studies in Moscow and at the University of Vienna . In 1953 she received her doctorate in Vienna with a dissertation on Gorky and socialist realism . She maintained contact with Russian dissidents and émigrés, was expelled from the Communist Party in 1968 and was banned from entering the country for several years after it became known that she had smuggled letters from Alexander Solzhenitsyn out of the country. Their sympathy for the Soviet Union ended with the crackdown of the Prague Spring in August 1968.
From 1966 Elisabeth Markstein taught at institutes for translation studies and the institutes for Slavic Studies in Vienna, Innsbruck, Graz and Austin (Texas). She was a member of the professional associations of the Translators' Community and Universitas and translated (partly together with her colleague Ernst Walter) from Russian, among other things, the main work of the Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago . She initially used the pseudonym Anna Peturnig for the translation . With Felix Philipp Ingold she edited Über Solschenizyn , translated Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player , Lew Kopelev's works , the memories of his wife Raissa Orlowa-Kopelewa and translated Janusz Meissner's wrecks from Polish.
She cultivated a close friendship with the German Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll and met Joseph Brodsky , Nikita Khrushchev and Vyacheslav Molotov, among others .
She has received several awards for her translations, including the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation in 1989 . Her memoirs appeared in 2010 Moscow is much more beautiful than Paris - life between two worlds .
Elisabeth Markstein was married to the writer Heinz Markstein (1924–2008) for almost 60 years . The marriage produced three daughters, two of whom died early.
Works
Moscow is much more beautiful than Paris. Life between two worlds. Milena, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85286-191-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Markstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reviews of works by Elisabeth Markstein at perlentaucher.de
- Mascha Dabic: Living in two worlds In: Der Standard online from April 21, 2010
- Erich Klein: The other Austria In: Die Presse from January 9, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Daughter of a Communist In: WDR 5 , broadcast on August 16, 2009 by Sibylle Plogstedt
- ↑ The mirror. No. 43/2003, October 21, 2003, p. 150.
- ↑ Biography at Milena Verlag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Markstein, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koplenig, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Slavist, translator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15 October 2013 |
| Place of death | Vienna |