Herbert Kuhner
Herbert ("Harry") Kuhner (born March 29, 1935 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer and translator .
Life
Kuhner emigrated with his parents to the United States of America in 1939 , where he graduated from Columbia University . In 1963 he returned to Vienna, where he still works as a writer and translator today and has also participated in the Austrian Literature Forum.
The Austrian Federal President has given him the professional title of Professor .
With his translations, Herbert Kuhner particularly acted as an “ambassador” for the literatures of the Austrian ethnic groups and made them accessible to the English-speaking audience. He has also presented an anthology of Austrian poetry after 1945 for the US publisher Schocken Books.
Awards
literature
- Konstantin Kaiser: Kuhner, Herbert. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 314f.
Works
In English
- Mermaid . Funk & Wagnalls, NY 1968
- Broadsides and Pratfalls: Selected Poems, Stories and Translations . The Menard Press, London 1976.
- as publisher: Austrian Poetry Today . Schocken, NY 1985, ISBN 0805239030 .
In German language
- The exclusion. Memoirs of a Thirty-Nine Man . Wiener Verlag, Himberg 1988, ISBN 3900915008 .
- Love for austria . Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85450-079-3 .
- Minki the Nazi cat and the human side . Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-901602-04-6 .
Bilingual: English / German
- Smoke and Fire , poetry / Rauch und Feuer , Lyrik. Afterword Konstantin Kaiser . Theodor Kramer Society, PROverbis | bilingual, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902838-18-6 .
- Jazz poems , lyric / jazz poems , poetry. Theodor Kramer Society, PROverbis | bilingual, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902838-20-9 .
- as editor and translator, together with Ilse Zelenka: Walls ... Austrian Jewish poets , poetry / Walls ... Austrian Jewish Poets , poetry. Theodor Kramer Society, PROverbis | bilingual, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902838-193 .
Web links
- Web presence of Herbert Kuhner
- Harry´s Blog: Our Man in Vienna - English blog by Herbert Kuhner
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhner, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuhner, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |