Gitta German

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Gitta Deutsch (born February 20, 1924 in Vienna ; died March 25, 1998 there ) was an Austro-British writer and literary translator.

Life

Gitta Deutsch was a daughter of the musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch . After Austria was annexed in 1938, she came to Great Britain on a children 's transport run by the Quaker Children's Committee . Her mother Hanna had died in 1937, her brother Peter survived the persecution of the Jews in Austria. Her father managed to escape and Gitta now lived with him in Cambridge . When war broke out, they were interned on the Isle of Man for a time . She was involved in Cambridge in the youth group of the Free Austrian Movement .

Deutsch occasionally did secretarial work for Ludwig Wittgenstein . Deutsch married and stayed in England after the war, while her father returned to Vienna. She returned to Vienna in 1969 and worked there for fifteen years as a clerk for the UN . She translated works by Erich Fried , Gerhard Fritsch , Christine Nöstlinger , Ernst Schönwiese and others. She edited the works of her father and her current partner, the natural scientist Engelbert Broda .

In 1985 she received the Wystan Hugh Auden Translator Prize for her translations.

Gravesite Otto Erich Deutsch and Gitta Deutsch in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Fonts (selection)

  • Otto Erich Deutsch: Admiral Nelson and Joseph Haydn. A British-Austrian summit . Edited by Gitta Deutsch and Rudolf Klein . Vienna 1982
  • Engelbert Broda: Science. Responsibility. Peace. Selected Writings. Edited by Paul Broda, Gitta Deutsch, Peter Markl, Thomas Schönfeld , Helmuth Springer-Lederer. Vienna 1985
  • One day in February: poetry . Epilogue Erich Fried . Aigner, Salzburg 1988
  • Böcklinstrasse elegance . Picus, Vienna 1993 (autobiography; English edition The red thread , 1996)
  • Ernst Vogel: 4 songs 1990: mezzo-soprano, violin & piano . Text Gitta German. Ludwig Doblinger, Vienna / Munich 1993
  • Otto Erich Deutsch: Viennese Music Stories . Selected by Gitta Deutsch and Rudolf Klein . Ed. Wien, Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-85058-089-2

literature

  • JM Ritchie : German exiles: British perspectives . New York: Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 190, 199

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personal data
SURNAME German, Gitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1998
Place of death Vienna