Eva Schumann (translator)

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Luise Eva Schumann , b. Feine (born January 8, 1889 in Hainichen , † December 3, 1973 in Freital ) was a German translator and writer .

Life

Feine attended secondary school for girls from 1899 to 1904 and then completed a study visit to England. Then she began an apprenticeship as a bookbinder at the University of Book Trade and Graphic Arts in Leipzig . In 1910 he graduated from high school and studied botany , zoology and geology in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Vienna. She received her PhD in 1914.

Eva Feine married the writer Wolfgang Schumann (1887–1964) in 1912 . From 1918 she was active in the labor movement and worked on the "Social Democratic Dresdner People's Newspaper". In the same year she joined the SPD . The first translations such as Victor Hugo's “ Die Elenden ” followed. From 1933 Schumann lived in exile in Czechoslovakia and England . At the end of the Second World War she returned to Dresden. As the Schumann family's house was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden , the couple moved to Freital to live with their friends Karl Hanusch and Marianne Bruns .

Further translations followed after 1947, including works by Romain Rolland , Theodore Dreiser , Theun de Vries and Vincent van Gogh's correspondence .

Awards

Works

  • The Acrosticheen and their position in the fern system , Jena 1915

Translations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , April 1, 1966, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feine, Eva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainichen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1973
Place of death Freital