Friedhelm Kemp
Friedhelm Kemp , pseudonym Friedrich Umbran (born December 11, 1914 in Cologne ; † March 3, 2011 in Munich ) was a German literary scholar , writer and translator .
Friedhelm Kemp was born in Cologne into a middle-class family and grew up in Aachen and Frankfurt. In 1938 he received his doctorate from the Romanist Karl Vossler in Munich . At the end of the war he was part of the Bavarian Freedom Campaign .
For sixty years, Kemp has made a name for himself as a translator and essayist . In addition to translations of poetry , his work includes mainly French poets (e.g. Charles Baudelaire , Maurice Scève , Saint-John Perse , Yves Bonnefoy , Philippe Jaccottet ), contributions to anthologies, literary works such as B. The European sonnet . Kemp published his poems under the pseudonym Friedrich Umbran.
Kemp was editor of the works of Clemens Brentano in the Hanser-Verlag and Else Lasker-Schülers in the Kösel-Verlag .
Awards
- 1963: Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- 1998: Joseph Breitbach Prize
- 2007: Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry
Fonts (selection)
- Baudelaire and Christianity . Michaelis-Braun, Marburg 1939 (Marburg Contributions to Romance Philology, 27; also Diss. Phil. Munich)
- German sacred poetry from a thousand years . Kösel, Munich 1958
- The art of always being cheerful. Breviary of wisdom . Pictures by Ernst von Dombrowski. Galama, Grünwald 1959
- German love poetry from eight hundred years . German Book Association, Berlin, Darmstadt, Vienna 1960
- With Norbert Miller and Georg Philipp: Jean Paul. Work, life, effect . Piper, Munich 1963
- Poetry as language. Changes in Modern Poetry . Kösel, Munich 1965
- The art and pleasure of translating . Neske Verlag, Pfullingen 1965. (Opuscula from Science and Poetry, 24)
- Procopius of Templin. A South German baroque preacher. Lecture at the 87th annual meeting of the Society of Bibliophiles on June 1, 1986 in Passau . Society of Bibliophiles, Munich 1987
- "... the ear that speaks". Walks of a reader and translator . Hanser, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-446-15738-7 .
- Ernst Barlach - Theodor Däubler, a friendship . Lecture at the opening of the exhibition Ernst Barlach - Theodor Däubler, The world reconciles and drowns out the spirit, April 27, 2001. Barlach Foundation, Güstrow 2001 (Writings of the Ernst Barlach Foundation: Series A; No. 3)
- The European sonnet . Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-481-1 , (Munich comparative studies; 2).
- Once and forever. Poems . With fourteen typographies by Josua Reichert . Oreos, Waakirchen-Krottenthal 2004, ISBN 3-923657-78-1
- "Gen Unfundung". One poet, one poem - yesterday and today . Lyrik-Kabinett, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-938776-08-7 , (Munich speeches on poetry)
- Sociable solitude. Selected essays on literature . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1693-5 .
- Moved by poetry.
- The pleasure of translating.
transmission
- Yves Bonnefoy : Les planches courbes - The curved planks. Poems German / French, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3-608-93657-2 .
- Logan Pearsall Smith : Trivia. Manesse, Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7175-2014-6 .
Editing
- together with Joachim Kalka : Sociable loneliness. Selected essays on literature. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1693-5 .
literature
- Margot Pehle: Friedhelm Kemp. Bibliography 1939-1984 . German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 1984.
- "Wreath winder, curtain fryer, herb breaker and roast turner". Friedhelm Kemp on his 85th birthday . Belleville-Verlag Farin, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-933510-59-7 (Metaphorá; H. 5. Vol. 3; Text in German, English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew)
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedhelm Kemp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Friedhelm Kemp in the German Digital Library
- "Homme des lettres" , obituary by Carl Wilhelm Macke on CulturMag.de
Remarks
- ↑ Helmut Mayer: Friedhelm Kemp. A reader as the poets dream of it. The translator, essayist and critic shaped our image of French literature. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 7, 2009, No. 284, p. 32.
- ^ Alfred Kantorowicz , Richard Drews: "Forbidden and burned" - German literature suppressed for 12 years. Berlin et al. 1947, p. 88.
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SURNAME | Kemp, Friedhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Umbran, Friedrich (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar, translator and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1914 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 2011 |
Place of death | Munich |