Eva Hesse (author)

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Eva Hesse (born March 2, 1925 in Berlin ; † March 30, 2020 in Munich ) was a German author , essayist , editor and translator .

Life

Eva Hesse lived in London before the Second World War , where her father, the journalist Fritz Hesse (1898–1980), was a press adviser at the German embassy. After the war she studied in Munich and worked as an editor and translator of Anglo-American literature.

Eva Hesse has translated Ezra Pound's work into German, edited it and interpreted it with critical essays and as part of a biography. She conveyed essential American poetry of the 20th century to the German public with translations by EE Cummings , TS Eliot , Robert Frost , Langston Hughes , Robinson Jeffers , James Laughlin , Marianne Moore and Melvin B. Tolson . Eva Hesse also transferred Samuel Beckett .

Works

As an author

  • Beckett, Eliot, Pound. Three text analyzes. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1971.
  • TS Eliot and " Das wüsten Land ". An analysis. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1973.
  • The roots of the revolution. Theories of individual and collective freedom. Hanser, Munich 1974.
  • Ezra Pound. Of sense and madness. Kindler, Munich 1978.
  • The axis avant-garde - fascism. Reflections on Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Ezra Pound. Arche, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7160-2123-7 .
  • Melvin B. Tolson - A “Voluntary Negro”. With an annotated translation of excerpts from Melvin B. Tolson's “Libretto for the Republic of Liberia”. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies , Berlin 1998.
  • Marianne Moore. American modernist poet. “Marriage” as its “desert land”. Rimbaud, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-89086-749-9 .
  • From speaking in tongues in poetry. Autobiographical information on translation. Rimbaud, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-89086-683-2 .
  • Poetry imports. A reader. Rimbaud, Aachen 2004, ISBN 3-89086-687-5 .
  • Poetry imports. A CD. Audio book edition. Radio recordings of EH's translations by 25 English / American poets. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-87410-100-2 .
  • Answer to Uwe Pörksen's "... if someone lives for what poetry is". Rainer Maria Gerhardt's Freiburg Fragments. (Reply from Eva Hesse from 2007 to Uwe Pörksen's criticism of her Ezra-Pound translations; previously online on the now deactivated website www.evahesse.de)

As editor

  • Nō - From the genius of Japan. Ernest Fenollosa. Ezra Pound, Serge Eisenstein . Arche, Zurich (1963)
  • New Approaches to Ezra Pound. A Co-ordinated Investigation of His Poetry and Ideas. University of California Press, Berkeley, and Faber & Faber, London 1969.
  • Ezra Pound reading book. Suhrkamp 1997, ISBN 3-518-39275-1 .
  • with Heinz Ickstadt : American poetry from the beginning to the present (= English and American poetry. Volume 4). Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46463-7 .

As a translator (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Hintermeier : On the death of Eva Hesse: She always knew what was meant. In: faz.net . March 31, 2020, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  2. ^ Obituary notice Eva Hesse-O'Donnell , SZ from April 11, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d For the birthday of the great essayist and translator of American modern poetry: Hesse, Eva - Lyrik Importe. In: kirchheimverlag.de. July 13, 2009, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Eva Hesse: Melvin B. Tolson - A “Voluntary Negro”: with an annotated translation of excerpts from Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia. (PDF; 1.5 MB) John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Department of Literature, Working Paper No. 114/1998, 1998, accessed April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, essayist, editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2020
Place of death Munich