Eoin Bourke

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Eoin Bourke , also Thomas Eugene Bourke, also Burke (born March 3, 1939 in Dublin ; died December 28, 2017 in Galway ), was an Irish Germanist and translator.

Life

Eoin Bourke was born in 1939 as the tenth child of a working-class family. His brother Fergus Bourke (1934-2004) was a photographer, his brother Brian Bourke (born 1936) is an artist. After graduating from high school, Bourke went to London and, when he was fed up with the insults from the English police (“Paddy”), moved on to Paris and Munich, where he got stuck and was bullied by landlords and the immigration authorities ( Two paddies discover Bavaria , 1996). He studied German, English and American studies at Munich University and got by with various odd jobs as a postman, translator, English teacher and freelancer for the Bavarian radio. He received his doctorate in 1977 with a dissertation on stylistic devices with ETA Hoffmann , Lord Byron and Heinrich Heine . Towards the end of the seventies, he moved with his wife, the writer Eva Bourke , and their three children from Munich to Ireland, when he received a teaching position, later professorial position, for German studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway , and has lived in since then Galway . Bourke also worked with the means of amateur theater in language teaching.

Bourke wrote regular counterpictures for the German-language magazine irland journal (ij). He edited an anthology of Irish travelogues by Germans, which he translated into English. He translated stories from Christoph Ransmayr into English. His work on the Anschluss of Austria , which he published in 2000, met with public criticism from the Austrian ambassador in Dublin, Paul Leifer . In 2004 he received a commemorative publication on his retirement .

One son is the artist Benjamin de Burca, who was born in Munich in 1975 .

Fonts (selection)

List of publications in the Festschrift, 2004, pp. 488–493

  • Thomas Bourke: Break in style as a stylistic device: Studies on the literature of the late and post-Romantic period. With special consideration of ETA Hoffmann, Lord Byron and Heinrich Heine . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1980 ISBN 3-8204-6528-6 . Dissertation Munich 1977.
  • Two paddies discover Bavaria. A true story , in: irland journal, 1996
  • The Austrian connection in History and Literature . Galway: Arlen House, 2000
  • (Ed.): "Poor green Erin": German Travel Writers' Narratives on Ireland from before the 1798 Rising to after the Great Famine: Texts . Edited, translated and annotated by Eoin Bourke. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2011 ISBN 978-3-631-61369-6
Translations
  • with Eva Bourke (Ed.): Hundsrose. New Irish Poems . Translation by Friedrich Michael Dannenbauer. Augsburg: Maro, 1985 ISBN 9783875120615
  • with Eva Bourke (Ed.): With green ink / With Green Ink. contemporary Irish poetry . Bamberg: Collibri, 1996

literature

  • Hermann Rasche, Christiane Schönfeld (ed.): Denkbilder ...: Festschrift for Eoin Bourke . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004 ISBN 3-8260-2650-0
  • Gisela Holfter, Christiane Schönfeld, Vincent Woods: A Tribute for Eoin Bourke , in: Germanistik in Ireland . Yearbook. 2018 ISBN 978-3-86628-613-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ irland journal (page 4/5) , irish-shop.de, accessed on December 17, 2019 (pdf)
  2. ↑ John O'Donohue : Landscape of the Soul . Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Photographs by Fergus Bourke. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2000 ISBN 978-3-423-24223-3
  3. ^ Brian Bourke , at Irish Museum of Modern Art
  4. ^ Margit Schreiner : Eoin Bourke , in: Festschrift , 2004, p. 31f.
personal data
SURNAME Bourke, Eoin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourke, Thomas Eugene; Burke, Eoin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish Germanist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2017
Place of death Galway