Hans stiletto

Hans Stilett ( pseudonym for Hans Adolf Stiehl ; born April 20, 1922 in Witzenhausen ; † January 18, 2015 in Bonn ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Hans Stilett passed his matriculation examination in Zeulenroda in 1941 . From 1953 to 1983 he was a senior editor at the Federal Press Office in Bonn . After his retirement, he began a study of comparative literature , German literature and philosophy at the University of Bonn , which he in 1989 with the promotion for Doctor graduated in philosophy; The subject of his doctoral thesis was Michel de Montaigne's travel diary . After Stilett had published poetry since the 1950s , he published a number of volumes of poetry in the 1970s and 1980s. His complete new translation of Montaigne's essais , published in 1998, attracted particular attention . Hans Stilett last lived in Bonn.

Hans Stilett was a member of the Association of German Writers , the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , the Paris "Société Internationale des Amis de Montaigne" and the "Montaigne Studies Association" at the University of Chicago . In 2003 he received the Lausanne Prix lémanique de la traduction for his translation work .

His extensive estate is in the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf.

Dark green poems. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1974 ISBN 3-87561-276-0
Signal red poems. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1975
Light green poemes. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1976
Cross-border traffic. GHM-Verlag Edition Parnaß, Bonn 1982
The message of the facades. Poems from the face. Kaufmann, Bonn 1983 ISBN 3-920577-20-5
Night blue poemes. GHM, Bonn 1983 ISBN 3-88586-029-5
Revenant from the green heart. Kaufmann, Bonn 1983 ISBN 3-920577-21-3
with Edeltraud Stiehl: Das Zwischenweltenkind. (= Die kleine Graphikum-Reihe , 11) Kaufmann, Bonn 1983 ISBN 3-920577-24-8
Country pictures. Imagological case study on Montaigne. Dissertation , University of Bonn . CMZ, Merzbach 1990 ISBN 3-922584-86-1
Of the desire to live on this earth. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008 ISBN 978-3-8218-5842-5
Owl Rod. Biographical mosaic. Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-88897-862-3

Complete edition of the essays

Essays. Frankfurt 1998
Justitia's power and powerlessness. Frankfurt 2000
Montaigne for teachers. Frankfurt 2004
Montaigne for medical professionals and their victims. Frankfurt 1999
Diary of the trip to Italy via Switzerland and Germany from 1580 to 1581. Frankfurt 2002
About the art of loving life. Frankfurt 2005

Karin Hempel-Soos: Walks through Montaigne's worlds. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , April 20, 2007 (on Stilett's 85th birthday.)
Helmut Mayer: On long hikes with Montaigne. On the death of the author and translator Hans Stilett. FAZ, January 23, 2015, p. 10

^ Helmut Mayer: On long hikes with Montaigne. On the death of the author and translator Hans Stilett. FAZ , January 23, 2015, p. 10; on Bonn: Heine Institute Düsseldorf, obituary
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personal data
SURNAME	Stiletto, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stiehl, Hans Adolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Witzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 2015
Place of death	Bonn