Gerhardt Csejka

Gerhardt Csejka (born April 11, 1945 in Zăbrani ( German  Guttenbrunn ), Kingdom of Romania ) is a Romanian translator and essayist .

life and work

Csejka studied German and Romanian at the West University of Timișoara and was a member of the editorial board of the German-language literary magazine Neue Literatur, published in Bucharest . As a literary critic he was part of the Banat action group around Richard Wagner , Rolf Bossert , Gerhard Ortinau , William Totok , Johann Lippet and others. a. Near. Until the group was broken up by the Securitate State Security, he regularly helped the authors to get publications. In 1975 he was briefly detained with some members of the group. In the following years he devoted himself increasingly to the translation of Romanian literature into German. In 1986 he received a DAAD scholarship for the Berlin artist program . He then settled in the Federal Republic of Germany and has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 1989 .

From 1992 to 1999 he published New Literature in a new series as the German Forum for Central and Eastern European Literature in Frankfurt and Bucharest and edited, among other things, country-specific editions on Russia , Ex- Yugoslavia , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Romania , Slovakia and Bulgaria , with which he Tried to set pan-European impulses.

From 1990 to 1992 Csejka had lectureships for Romanian language and regional studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and from 1993 to 2003 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Gerhardt Csejka has made significant contributions to Romanian-German literature and journalism as well as to the German-Romanian literary exchange. In 2008 he received the translation prize of the Kunststiftung NRW for the translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's novel Die Wissenden and for the complete work .

transmission

• Mircea Cărtărescu : The body . With Ferdinand Leopold. Vienna 2011.
• Mircea Cărtărescu: Nostalgia . Berlin 1997.
• Mircea Cărtărescu: Those who know . Vienna 2007.
• Ion Creangă : The goat with the three little goats and other animal tales . Bucharest 1981.
• Caius Dobrescu : Ode to free enterprise . Ottensheim an der Donau 2006.
• Mircea Eliade : The Forbidden Forest . Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1993.
• Ákos Győrffy : From Akutagawa's notepad . With Lajos Adamik. Aachen 2006.
• Wassily Kandinsky : Kandinsky . Bucharest 1980.
• Norman Manea : October, eight o'clock . With Ernest Wichner, Paul Schuster and Roland Erb. Munich 2007.
• Norman Manea: Robot Biography . Goettingen 1987.
• Norman Manea: partition . Goettingen 1992.
• Andrei Pleșu : Guardi . Bucharest 1981.
• Traian Pop Traian : The 53rd week . With Horst Fassel , Edith Konradt, Johann Lippet and Dieter Schlesak . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2013.
• Traian Pop Traian & Liviu Tulbure: Leaden Wings . With Horst Fassel , Edith Konradt, Johann Lippet and Dieter Schlesak. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2017.
• Traian Pop Traian: Absolute power . With Horst Fassel , Edith Konradt, Johann Lippet and Dieter Schlesak. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2018.
• Robert Şerban : Fine death . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2017.
• Robert Şerban: Close to the belt . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2018.
• Robert Şerban: A soldier of fortune suddenly released . With Hellmut Seiler. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2018.
• Daniel Vighi : Roadmap for the Sixties . Stuttgart 2003.
• Matei Vișniec : ... and what should be done with the cello? Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1995.

Release

• Anemone Latzina : diary days . Berlin 1992.
• Rolf Bossert: I stand on the stairs of the wind . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
• Vexing mirror Securitate. Romanian German authors in the sights of the communist secret service . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2015.

Awards

• 1989: Prize of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation for maintaining the purity of the German language. With Herta Müller , Helmuth Frauendorfer , Klaus Hensel , Johann Lippet, Werner Söllner , William Totok and Richard Wagner.
• 2008: Translator Award from the Kunststiftung NRW
• 2009: Prize of the City of Münster for European Poetry for the transfer of Caius Dobrescu's poem book Ode to the free enterprise .

literature

• Vexing mirror Securitate. Review in the Annotated Bibliography of Political Science

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhardt Csejka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe : Short biographies of writers, translators and literary scholars ( Memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , Gerhardt Csejka
• European College of Translators : Biography and bibliography of the translator Gerhardt Csejka
• The Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL): Collection of articles by Gerhardt Csejka from the New Literature
• Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics : 40 years of the Banat Action Group , April 2, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernest Wichner (Ed.): "A pronoun has been arrested. The early years in Romania, texts of the Banat Action Group", Suhrkamp, ​​1992, afterword by Gerhardt Csejka: The Action Group Story
2. ↑ www.uebersetzerkollegium.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Henning-Kaufmann-Stiftung, Jahrbuch 1989, Herta Müller, Gerhardt Csejka, Helmuth Frauendorfer, Klaus Hensel, Johann Lippet, Werner Söllner, William Totok, Richard Wagner. Romanian German poems and prose, Marburg (Jonas Verlag), 1994