Herbert Greiner-May

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Herbert Greiner-Mai (born August 4, 1927 in Lauscha ; † November 11, 1989 in Weimar ) was a German specialist in German studies and a publisher's editor.

Life

The high school student Herbert Greiner-Mai, son of a Lauscha glassblower, was founded in 1943 as an Air Force auxiliary used and then made up to 1945 as a soldier military service . Until 1948 in Soviet captivity , he attended the Antifa school in Alapayevsk .

From 1948 to 1949 Herbert Greiner-Mai completed his Abitur at the Jena preparatory college , then studied English and German at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and graduated in 1953 with a diploma in philology . Then he was an editor at Volksverlag Weimar and from 1959 head editor. From 1964, Herbert Greiner-Mai was the editor in charge of the German heritage editing department at Aufbau-Verlag in Berlin and Weimar.

Awards

Work (selection)

  • Glass, snow and a gang of rascals. Illustrations by Engelbert Schoner . Knabes youth library. Knabe, Weimar 1955
  • together with Wally Eichhorn-Nelson : Picture book from the high Thuringian Forest. Illustrations by Engelbert Schoner . Volksverlag, Weimar 1956
  • Weimar. Pictures of a traditional city. Photos by Klaus G. Beyer . Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 1979 (reprint: Simon, Munich-Pullach 1989 ISBN 978-3-351-01327-1 )
  • Poets, places, episodes (collaborators: Wolfgang Schneider and Horst H. Müller). Tourist-Verlag Berlin 1985 (reprint of Klett-Verlag for knowledge and education, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 978-3-12-895120-1 )

editor

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : works. Vol. 1., Poetry and Truth. Volksverlag, Weimar 1956
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The new Melusine. A selection. Illustrations by Bernhard Nast . Children's book publisher Berlin 1961
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Poems. Goethe. Selected by Herbert Greiner-Mai and Hans-Joachim Kruse. Volksverlag (Library of German Classics), Weimar 1963
  • Friedrich Hölderlin : Works. 2 vols. Selected and introduced by Herbert Greiner-Mai. Volksverlag (Library of German Classics), Weimar 1963
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: works. Vol. 8, From my life. Poetry and truth. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1966
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: works. Vol. 10, Italian travel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1966
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Letters. Vol. 1. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1967
  • Ancient poetry in classical adaptations. Edited by Herbert Greiner-Mai and Manfred Wolter . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1968
  • Homer s frog and mouse war. German by Christian Graf zu Stolberg . Illustrations by Renate Totzke-Israel . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1970
  • The wonderful history of the horned Siegfried. Retold from the popular book of 1726. Herbert Greiner-May. Illustrations by Hans Wiegandt . Knabes youth library. Knabe, Weimar 1971
  • Heinrich Heine : Life journey. One hundred and fifty poems. Selected by Herbert Greiner-Mai and Gotthard Erler . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1972
  • A fisherman sat in the boat. The most beautiful German ballads of the 19th century. Selected by Herbert Greiner-Mai and Wulf Kirsten . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1974
  • Weimar in the judgment of the world. Voices from three centuries. Edited by Herbert Greiner-Mai in collaboration with Gerhard Hendel . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1977
  • Happiness without rest. German love poems from a hundred years. Selected by Herbert Greiner-Mai and Wulf Kirsten. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1978
  • Small dictionary of world literature . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1983
  • Diccionario Akal de literatura general y comparada. Small dictionary of world literature (Spanish) Tres Cantos, Madrid 2006, ISBN 978-84-460-1863-6
  • Love is not love alone. Ancient Greek love poems. Selected by Herbert Greiner-Mai. Translated from the Greek by Dietrich Ebener . The verses of Sophocles were translated by Rudolf Schottlaender . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984
  • Rudolf Baumbach : The fiddle bow of the Neck. Fairy tales and stories. Edited and edited by Herbert Greiner-Mai . Postreiter-Verlag, Halle 1986
  • Cyclops in love. Ancient humor and satire. Illustrations by Harry Juergens. Eulenspiegel-Verlag Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-359-00353-3
  • Johann Karl August Musäus : The robbed veil and other fairy tales and legends. Selected and edited for children by Herbert Greiner-Mai. Illustrations by Gerhard Lahr . Postreiter-Verlag Halle 1989, ISBN 978-3-7421-0239-3

literature

  • Entry on p. 242 in: Gabriele Baumgartner (Hrsg.), Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ, DDR. Vol. 1., Abendroth - Lyr. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2

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personal data
SURNAME Greiner-Mai, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES HG Reiner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauscha
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1989
Place of death Weimar