Frankfurt anthology

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The Frankfurt anthology is a collection of German-language and, since October 4, 2014, foreign-language poems translated into German with interpretations that was founded by Marcel Reich-Ranicki in 1974.

History and content

Since June 15, 1974, a poem with a comment by a poetry connoisseur has appeared in every Saturday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . The motto of this project is: “ A street for poetry .” Until his death in September 2013, the anthology was editorially supervised by Reich-Ranicki, who until then also published the annual book editions.

As a result, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reprinted all of Reich-Ranicki's poetry interpretations that had previously appeared as part of the anthology. In February 2014 Rachel Salamander took over the editorial office and continued the series in the spirit of Reich-Ranicki, but with two changes to his rules:

  1. "The most important change is a risk, an experiment: from now on the interpreter can also interpret their own poem."
  2. "The strict prohibition on repetition is lifted from now on. The readers will come across one or the other poem, but in a completely different reading."

Self-interpretations by poets subsequently proved to be very fruitful, but new interpretations of poems that had already been discussed remained a rarity.

In October 2014, Hubert Spiegel took over responsibility for the continuation of the series. He "opened the Frankfurt anthology, which for four decades was reserved exclusively for German-language poetry, to international poetry in German translation." In these cases, the paper edition only provides the German translation of the poem presented, the foreign-language original text and readings of the (German-language) poems are available on the FAZ website.

So far, over 2000 poems with interpretations have appeared in the Frankfurt anthology. At the end of each volume of the annual book edition, there is a list of all poems or interpretations that have been published up to that point with volume and page numbers. In April 2017, the 40th and so far last volume with fifty new articles was published by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. While the Frankfurt anthology will be continued unchanged in both the print and online editions of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no further book editions will appear.

Over 125 poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were presented. But contemporary poets like Sarah Kirsch also find their place here.

The interpreters include German language professors like Peter von Matt , Ulrich Karthaus , journalists like Reich-Ranicki himself and authors like Hans Christoph Buch , Henning Heske and Durs Grünbein .

On October 4, 2014, Joseph Brodsky's poem Sonett, a poem that was not written in German, was dealt with for the first time : “The Frankfurt anthology [...] will in future be devoted to poetry from all over the world: in addition to German-language poems, foreign-language poems should also be Poetry are treated, provided that it is available in an appropriate translation. "

Prize of the Frankfurt Anthology

From 1998 to 2011, the Frankfurt Anthology Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, was awarded to one of its performers. Prize winners were:

literature

  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.): Frankfurter Anthologie 1–33 . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1976–2010
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.): Frankfurter Anthologie 34-38 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011–2015.
  • Hubert Spiegel (Ed.): Frankfurter Anthologie 39-40 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016–2017.
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki (ed.): 1000 German poems and their interpretations . 10 volumes. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.): 1400 German poems and their interpretations . 12 volumes. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.): Johann Wolfgang Goethe - wonderful as on the first day. 125 poems and their interpretations. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salamander, Rachel: The future of the Frankfurt anthology. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 15, 2014, p. 33.
  2. ^ Spiegel, Hubert: Introduction to Frankfurter Anthologie 38. Frankfurt 2015, pp. 14f.
  3. ↑ a b FAZ website; Access: March 10, 2019