Hans Reisiger

Walter Ernst Hans Reisiger (born October 22, 1884 in Breslau ; † April 29, 1968 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Hans Reisiger was the son of the post office clerk Hugo Reisiger and his wife, a née Thomala. After attending a humanistic grammar school in Breslau , Hans Reisiger studied law and philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Munich . He broke off this study and stayed from 1907 to 1911 as a freelance writer in Florence and Rome . Reisiger took part in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 as a member of the sea ​​pilots with the rank of flight mate . In the twenties and thirties he lived in Switzerland , Tyrol and Munich and from 1938 to 1945 in Berlin . He turned down the offer made by his friend Thomas Mann in May 1938 to emigrate to the USA and take up a chair at the University of California at Berkeley .

After the Second World War , Reisiger worked as an editor for Rowohlt-Verlag and as a translator for Reader's Digest magazine.

Hans Reisiger's literary work includes novels , short stories and poems . Reisiger has emerged primarily as a translator of numerous literary works from English and French; his greatest achievement is his translation of Walt Whitman's works into German. Reisiger's estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Hans Reisiger was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and the German PEN Center . 1947 awarded him the University of Munich the honorary doctorate , in 1959 the country Baden-Wuerttemberg the title of professor . In the same year Reisiger received the honorary gift of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the Federation of German Industry .

Hans Reisiger was buried in the Garmisch cemetery in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Works

• Silent Houses , Frankfurt a. M. 1910
• Maria Marleen , Berlin 1911
• Jakobsland , Berlin 1913
• Funeral ceremony , Berlin 1916
• Young Green , Stuttgart 1919
• Santa Caterina da Siena , Berlin 1921
• Phaëton , Vienna [u. a.] 1922
• From inner freedom , Prien, Obb. 1923
• Restless star , Leipzig 1930
• A child frees the queen , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1939
• Johann Gottfried Herder , Berlin 1942
• Walt Whitman , Berlin 1946
• Aeschylos near Salamis , Hamburg 1952
• Literary portraits , Heidelberg 1969

Editing

• Gerhart Hauptmann : The Big Dream , Gütersloh 1956

Translations

• Eduard Carpenter: The interplay of love and death , Prien 1924
• Joseph Conrad : Stories from hearsay , Berlin 1938 (translated together with Richard Kraushaar)
• Stephen Crane : The Blue Hotel , Berlin 1937
• Stephen Crane: In the lifeboat , Bergen / Obb. 1948
• Daniel Defoe : Life and wonderful adventures of Robinson Crusoe , sailor from York , Munich 1921
• Michael Egan: He should be your master , Berlin 1940
• Elisabeth I .: Elizabeth, Queen of England , Vienna 1938
• Warner Fabian: College Girls , Berlin 1930
• Claude Farrère : The Doomed , Munich 1921
• Gustave Flaubert : A simple heart , Potsdam 1950
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary , Hamburg 1952
• Peter Fleming : Alone with me , Berlin 1936
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : My life , Leipzig 1930
• David Garnett : My wife the vixen; The man in the zoo , Hamburg 1952 (translated with Maria von Schweinitz)
• Rudyard Kipling : Balance sheet , Leipzig 1927
• Rudyard Kipling: Stories from India , Wiesbaden 1957
• Rudyard Kipling: Kim , Leipzig 1925
• Rudyard Kipling: Puck vom Buchsberg , Leipzig 1925
• Rudyard Kipling: The most beautiful story in the world , Leipzig 1927
• Rudyard Kipling: How does the dog speak? Leipzig 1931
• V. Kirchon: Rost , Berlin 1930
• Cecil Lewis : Sagittarius on the rise , Berlin 1937
• Maffio Maffii: Cleopatra , Leipzig 1943
• Ella Maillart : Turkestan solo , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1941
• Ella Maillart: Forbidden Journey , Berlin 1938
• George Meredith : The Egoist , Leipzig 1925
• Harold Nicolson : Friedensmacher 1919 , Berlin 1933
• Harold Nicolson: Post-War Diplomacy , Berlin 1934
• Edwin Philip O'Donnell: The Great Delta , Vienna 1937
• Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles : History of the Chevalier des Grieux and the Manon Lescaut , Reinbek 1961
• Frederic Prokosch : Seven on the run , Stuttgart 1939
• Elizabeth Madox Roberts : As long as you can remember , Berlin 1928
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : Night flight , Berlin 1932
• Jean-Paul Sartre : The Wall , Stuttgart 1950 (translated together with Heinrich Wallfisch)
• Carlo Sforza : European dictatorships , Berlin 1932
• Carlo Sforza: The Enemy Brothers , Berlin 1933
• Carlo Sforza: Shaping and shaping today's Europe , Berlin 1931
• Clare Sheridan : I, my children and the great powers of the world , Leipzig 1928
• Robert C. Sherriff : The Other Side , Munich 1929 (drama)
• RC Sherriff: The Other Side , Munich 1930 (novel)
• RC Sherriff: Bathing trip in September , Berlin 1933
• RC Sherriff: Green Garden Doors , Berlin 1936
• Helen Zenna Smith: Mrs. Biest whistles , Berlin 1930
• Freya Stark : The southern gates of Arabia , Hamburg 1948
• Lytton Strachey : Elisabeth and Essex , Berlin 1929
• Lytton Strachey: Spirit and Adventure , Berlin 1932
• Lytton Strachey: Power and Piety , Berlin 1937 (translated together with Wolfgang von Einsiedel)
• Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria , Berlin 1925
• Giuseppe Valle: My thirty years of flying , Leipzig 1941
• HG Wells : Secret Chambers of the Heart , Munich 1923
• Walt Whitman : Democratic Outlook , Berlin 1948
• Walt Whitman: Singing from the open country road , Lauenburg 1922
• Walt Whitman: Blades of Grass , Berlin 1919
• Walt Whitman: Diary 1862–1864, 1876–1882 , Berlin 1946
• Walt Whitman: Werk , Berlin, 2 volumes, 1922 a. ö.

literature

• Hans Reisiger . Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1944
• Ulrike Leuschner:  Reisiger, Walter Ernst Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 391 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Reisiger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1968 of October 21, 1968, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Reisiger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 1562.
2. ↑ kulturkreis.eu: 1953–1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts  ( 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. (accessed April 1, 2015)