Erhard Engler
Erhard Engler (born July 18, 1938 in Groß Nebrau , Marienwerder district , West Prussia , today Nebrowo Wielkie , Sadlinki (gmina) , Powiat Kwidzyński ; † October 8, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German Romanist , Lusitanist , Hispanist and translator.
life and work
Erhard Engler studied Latin American Studies at the University of Rostock and was an exchange student in Cuba in 1963 . From 1964 to 1974 he worked for Radio Berlin International (RBI). He refused to accept the demands of the Ministry for State Security , which had repeatedly asked him to “work together”, and preferred to give up his position in the RBI editorial team. In 1975 he received his doctorate on Euclides da Cunha from the University of Rostock . A spiritual champion for the national independence of Brazil . From 1975 to 2003 he was a lecturer in Brazilian Studies, then Lusitan and Hispanic Studies at the Institute for Romance Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Latin American authors who visited him smuggled the books necessary for his work into the GDR. As a result of his non-cooperation with the state power, a travel ban was imposed on him. After the fall of the wall , the Brazilian was able to travel to Brazil for the first time in 1991.
Fonts (in selection)
To linguistics
- Textbook of Brazilian Portuguese . Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1986 (and numerous new editions: 1989, 1993, 1996, most recently by Langenscheidt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-468-45001-X ).
To literary studies
- The Bahia cycle by Jorge Amado . In: Scientific journal of the University of Rostock (WZUR), vol. 14 (1965), issue 1/2, pp. 49–80.
- Jorge Amado. The magician from Bahia . Edition Text and Criticism, München 1992, ISBN 3-88377-410-3 .
As translator
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis : Brás Cubas. Addenda to a Missed Life . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1967; New edition: Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-36994-6 (Portuguese: Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas ).
- Jorge Amado : Dead Sea . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1976; New edition: Piper, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-10697-8 (Portuguese: Mar morto ).
As editor
- 38 Brazilian storytellers . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-353-00353-3 .
- (with Axel Schönberger) Studies on Brazilian and Portuguese literature . Domus Editoria Europaea (DEE), Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-927884-55-3 .
Web links
- Obituary on Lusitanistenverband.de, accessed on May 16, 2015.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Marcel Vejmelka: Obituary Erhard Engler (1938-2012) . www.Lusitanistenverband.de, accessed on May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Ute Hermanns: Impressions on the fall of the wall . In: Tópicos , vol. 48 (2009), issue 309, pp. 10-11.
- ↑ Marcel Vejmelka: Obituary for Erhard Engler . In: Tópicos , vol. 51 (2012), issue 412, p. 49.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engler, Erhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist, Lusitanist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groß Nebrau, Marienwerder district , today Nebrowo Wielkie, Sadlinki (gmina), Powiat Kwidzyński |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |