Hans Hennecke (Author)
Hans Hennecke (born March 30, 1897 in Betheln , † January 21, 1977 in Groebenzell ) was a German literary critic and translator .
Life
Hans Hennecke was the son of Edgar Hennecke , who was a pastor in Betheln. He grew up in Düren / Rhineland , where he also attended high school. Hennecke took part in the First World War as a soldier and was wounded. He studied German , English and Romance languages at the universities in Berlin and Göttingen . From 1930 he worked as a lecturer for various publishers in Berlin . Gretel Adorno asked Walter Benjamin in January 1936: "By the way, do you know one of your greatest admirers in Berlin, Hans Hennecke [...]?"
In 1946 Hennecke went to Munich , where he published the magazine " Die Fähre " until 1948 . He then wrote as a freelance literary critic for German newspapers ; He also translated English and American authors into German . Between 1962 and 1968 he lectured as a visiting professor at universities in the United States and Canada .
As an essayist and translator, Hans Hennecke has played an important role in the placement of newer English-speaking authors in the German-speaking area since the 1930s ; In addition, he stood up for "forgotten" authors such as B. Arno Holz , Alfred Mombert and Albrecht Schaeffer .
Hans Hennecke was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and the German PEN Center . In 1950 he received the Great Literature Prize of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz , in 1956 the honorary award of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, and in 1969 the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize of the Darmstadt Academy for his translation work .
Works
- Poetry and Dasein , Berlin 1950
- Review , Gütersloh 1958
Editing
- Stephen Crane : In the lifeboat. Bergen / Obb. 1948.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays. Bergen / Obb. 1949.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne : A Man Called Wakefield and Other Tales. Bergen / Obb. 1949.
- Henry James : The Altar of the Dead. Bergen / Obb. 1949.
- with Curt Hohoff , Karl Vossler , Georg Britting : Lyrik des Abendlandes. Munich 1949.
- Thomas S. Eliot : Selected Essays. Berlin u. a. 1950.
- Alfred Mombert : Alfred Mombert. Wiesbaden 1952.
- Rudolf Borchardt : Rudolf Borchardt. Wiesbaden 1954.
- with Hermann Kunisch : Handbook of contemporary German literature. Munich 1965.
Translations
- Jacques Chardonne : Eva or The Interrupted Diary , Berlin 1932 (translated together with Nanni Collin)
- English poems from Shakespeare to WB Yeats , Berlin 1938
- William Faulkner : A green branch , Zurich 1957
- William Faulkner : Victory in the Mountains , Munich 1956
- Herbert Gorman : James Joyce , Hamburg 1957 (translated together with Hans Vogel)
- Henry James : Maisie , Cologne [u. a.] 1955
- Henry James : Princess Casamassima , Cologne [u. a.] 1954
- Dilys Laing : The big year , Munich 1954
- Theodore Francis Powys : König Duck , Berlin 1938 (translated together with Joachim Moras )
- Claire Sainte-Soline : Between Morning and Evening , Hamburg 1939
- William Saroyan : We liars , Frankfurt a. M. 1952 (translated together with Otto Schrag)
- Fortunat Strowski : From the essence of the French spirit , Munich [u. a.] 1937
- Robert Penn Warren : Selected Essays , Gütersloh 1961 (translated together with Hans Walz)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gretel Adorno / Walter Benjamin: Correspondence 1930-1940. Frankfurt a. M. 2019. p. 256.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Hennecke in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hennecke, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary critic, essayist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Betheln |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1977 |
| Place of death | Groebenzell |