Erna Pfeiffer

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Erna Pfeiffer (born May 10, 1953 in Graz ) is an Austrian Romance studies , university lecturer, retired associate professor and translator .

academic career

Erna Pfeiffer studied law at the University of Graz from 1971 to 1972 and began studying Spanish in 1971 and Russian in 1972 at its institute for translation and interpreting training. She completed a doctorate in Romance Philology (Spanish / Portuguese) and Slavic Studies (Russian) in 1982 with a doctorate in philosophy. In 1996 he completed his habilitation in Hispanic Studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz with the text Territorium Frau: Body experience as a cognitive process in texts by contemporary Latin American authors . Since 1997 she has been appointed associate professor and headed the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Graz from 2003 to 2005. From 2009 she was chairwoman of the curriculum commission for Romance studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz until 2010, afterwards its deputy chairwoman until 2012. She retired in August 2014.

Fonts

Monographs
  • Literary structure and reference to reality in the Colombian Violencia novel . Peter Lang, Vienna / New York 1984.
  • EntreVistas. Diez escritoras mexicanas desde bastidores . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Exiliadas, emigrantes, viajeras. Encuentros con diez escritoras latinoamericanas . Frankfurt / M., Madrid: Vervuert / Iberoamericana 1995.
  • Territory of women: body experience as a cognitive process in texts by contemporary Latin American authors . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • Fallen out of role! Newer Latin American literature between machismo and feminismo . Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2008.
  • With eyes in hand: Argentine Jews tell stories . Edited and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. With an introduction by Saúl Sosnowski, Leonardo Senkman, Florinda F. Goldberg and an afterword by Elisabeth Baldauf. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-85476-446-5
  • You couldn't erase our memories . Jewish-Argentine authors in conversation with Erna Pfeiffer. Löcker-Verlag, Vienna 2016 (editions of the PEN).
Editorships, co-author
  • (Mithrsg.) Canticum Ibericum. Newer Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American literature reflected in interpretation and translation . Vervuert Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1991. (together with H. Kubarth).
  • (Ed. And translation and foreword) AMORica Latina: My continent - my body. Erotic texts by Latin American authors . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1991.
  • (Ed., Translation and foreword) Torturada - Of butchers and sexes. Texts by Latin American authors on torture and political violence . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1993.
  • (Mithrsg.) Michèle Najlis: Chants of Iphigenia / Cantos de Ifigenia . Translated by Martin Schöffmann. Klagenfurt / Celovec: Drava Verlag 1997. (together with Helmut Stockhammer, Gerhard Hammerschmied, Ivan Rodriguez-Chave, Christof Subik).
  • (Mithrsg. With Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner): Aves de paso. Autores latinoamericanos entre exilio y transculturación (1970-2002) . Vervuert / Iberoamericana, Frankfurt am Main / Madrid 2005.
  • (Ed., Translation, foreword and appendix) In the hands of the moon. Texts by Latin American women . Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2003.
  • (Mithrsg. With Paul Danler, Klaus-Dieter Ertler, Wolfram Krömer and Enrique Rodrigues Moura): Austria, Spain and European unity. Austria, España y la unidad europea . Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck 2007.
  • (Mithrsg. With Valérie de Daran): Texts in / en Transit: For the translation of fiction texts into French and German / Des traducteurs témoignent . (= Poetica. Writings on literary studies , 102). Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2009
  • (Mithrsg. With Gwendolyn Díaz and María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem): Texto, contexto y postexto: Aproximaciones a la obra literaria de Luisa Valenzuela . IILI, Pittsburgh (PA) 2010. ISBN 978-1-930744-46-2
  • (Ed.) Alicia Kozameh: Etica, estética y las acrobacias de la palabra escrita . (= Antonio Cornejo Polar series , 8). IILI, Pittsburgh, PA 2013, ISBN 978-1-930744-57-8 .
  • (Ed., Translation, foreword and appendix) Pedro Arturo Reino Garcés: America: Guitarra de otros verbos / America: Guitar of other words . (= Ecuador: Studies and Editions , Vol. 3). Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64029-6 .
Lexicons
  • Lexicon articles on "Elena Garro", "Rosario Ferré", "Elena Poniatowska", "Rosario Castellanos", "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz", "Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda", "Delmira Agustini", "María Luisa Bombal", " Griselda Gambaro ”,“ Cristina Peri Rossi ”,“ Armonía Somers ”,“ Alfonsina Storni ”,“ Luisa Valenzuela ”, in: Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon . Edited by Ute Hechtfischer, Renate Hof, Inge Stephan and Flora Veit-Wild. Publishing house JB Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 1998.
Literary works

Translations

selection
  • Juan Goytisolo : “Reading the room at Djemaa-El-Fna-Platz in Marrakech”, from Makbara, in: Exhibition catalog for “Styrian Autumn” - “Graz 1988”, pp. 69–71.
  • Benito Pérez Galdós : Tristana . Novel. Translated from Spanish and provided with an afterword by Erna Pfeiffer. (= Library Suhrkamp , 1013). Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Gioconda Belli : Quetzalcóatl's dream . America's memory. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1992.
  • Daniela Gioseffi (Ed.): Women about the war . Translations by Michael Gingrich, Johann Heiss, Erna Pfeiffer, Karin Rick u. a. Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1992.
  • Carmen Boullosa : They are cows, we are pigs . Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. (= edition suhrkamp , 1866). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Luisa Valenzuela : Open goals. Stories from Latin America . Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1996.
  • Miguel de Unamuno : Plea for idleness . Selected and translated from Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. (= Essay , 31) Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz / Vienna 1996.
  • Miguel de Unamuno: Self-Talks and Conversations . Selected and translated from Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz / Vienna 1997.
  • Alicia Kozameh : Ostrich Legs . Novel. Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. Milena Verlag, Vienna 1997.
  • Miguel de Unamuno: "A love story" and "A poor rich man or the strange attitude towards life." In: Miguel de Unamuno: The martyrdom of San Manuel. Three stories about immortality . With an afterword by Erna Pfeiffer. Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 49-132.
  • Alicia Kozameh: Steps Underwater . Novel. Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. With an afterword by Saúl Sosnowski. Milena Verlag, Vienna 1999.
  • Miguel de Unamuno: How to make a novel . Translated from Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. (= Essay , 42). Literature publishing house Droschl, Graz / Vienna 2000.
  • In the hands of the moon . Texts by Latin American women. Edited and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2003.
  • Luisa Valenzuela: Fire on the word . Stories. From the Argentine Spanish by Helga Lion, Erika <sic!> Pfeiffer, Julia Schwaighofer, Eva Srna and Birgit Weilguny. With a foreword by Erna Pfeiffer and an afterword by the translators. (= Edition Milo , Vol. 17). Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2008. ISBN 978-3-85435-558-8
  • Rosario Ferré : “When women love men.” In: Take me . The most beautiful erotic stories. Edited and with an afterword by Hansjürgen Blinn. With drawings by Gustav Klimt. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 222–244.
  • Pedro Arturo Reino Garcés : America: Guitarra de otros verbos / America: Guitar of other words . Edición crítica y traducción de Erna Pfeiffer. Edited, critically annotated and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. Con una introducción de Germán Calvache Alarcón e ilustraciones de Oswaldo Viteri. With an introduction by Germán Calvache Alarcón and illustrations by Oswaldo Viteri. (= Ecuador: Studies and Editions , Vol. 3). Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64029-6
  • With eyes in hand: Argentine Jews tell stories . Edited and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. With an introduction by Saúl Sosnowski, Leonardo Senkman, Florinda F. Goldberg and an afterword by Elisabeth Baldauf. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85476-446-5 .
  • Alicia Kozameh: 259 jumps (including Salto Immortale) . Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. Vienna: Löcker-Verlag, 2017 (edition pen, vol. 60). ISBN 978-3-85409-844-7
  • Luisa Futoransky : Formosa . Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. Vienna: Löcker-Verlag, 2017 (edition pen, vol. 68). ISBN 978-3-85409-863-8
  • Susana Szwarc : Braids - The stolen secret . Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer. Vienna: Löcker-Verlag, 2019 (edition pen, vol. 124), ISBN 978-3-85409-956-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfeiffer, Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Erna in Cibera research wiki.
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz