Helmut Flume

Helmut Flume (born October 30, 1905 in Lünen , † June 25, 1999 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Dortmund, Flume studied German, Greek and Latin at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Bonn from mid-1924 . He completed his legal traineeship at the Dortmund grammar school from 1929 to 1931 and remained there from 1931 to 1934 as a study assessor . In 1934 he went to Peine as a teacher and in 1935 moved to the grammar school in Braunschweig , where he stayed until 1940.

In 1940 Flume was appointed head of the German Academy in Volos , Greece. He and his family saw the German troops march in in 1941. Flume stayed until 1943, but when living conditions got worse and the students of the German Academy switched to the partisans, he was transferred to the German Academy in Bucharest. There he witnessed the surrender of Romania and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in August 1944. His wife and two children were able to flee with the withdrawing German troops.

After returning to Germany, he received his doctorate in 1949 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn on the subject of the unity of Lucan's artistic personality with “magna cum laude” and was active in the North Rhine-Westphalian school service until 1956. In 1956 he was appointed principal of the German School in Athens and was involved in building the school. After his time in Athens, he worked at the school college in Düsseldorf until 1968 . After retiring, he began translating modern Greek literature. The Society of Literary Translators of Greece made him an honorary member.

Works

• The unity of the artistic personality Lucas, dissertation, University of Bonn, 1950
• Ēlias Benezēs: Peace in Attic Bay, Wegener, Hamburg, 1963, translation by Helmut Flume
• M. Karagatsis: The Great Chimera, Blanvalet, Berlin, 1968, translation by Helmut Flume
• Tassos Athanassiadis, Der Thronsaal, Walter, Olten and Freiburg, 1981, translation by Helmut Flume

• Alexandros Papadiamantis, Dream by the Sea, Atlantis magazine, issue 4, 1958, Zurich, translation by Helmut Flume
• Gerasimos Grigoris, The wolves stray, Hellenica magazine, issue 3, April 1965, translation by Helmut Flume
• St. G. Spanakis, From the Markus-Löwen to the Turkish Crescent , Merian, Kreta Heft 4/31
• Epidaurus 59, The Ancient Dramas in the Spirit of New Greece, The World, 1959
• A precious Goethe treasure in Greece, Goethe's "Iphigenie" in modern Greek poetry, 1993
• The literary creation of New Greece - Lecture in the Bremer Rundfunk, 1960s.