Holger Lohse

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Holger Lohse (* 1948 in Lübeck ) is a German translator , engineer , painter and citizen scientist .

Career

Holger Lohse completed vocational training and then started studying to become a surveyor . He later studied at the Muthesius School in Kiel in the fields of graphic design and painting. Lohse was fascinated by printing , which led him to take up an apprenticeship as a printer and later to work as a typographer and printer . Towards the end of the 1990s, he began doing literary translations alongside his professional activity . In recent years Lohse has re- translated the 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare , the publication of which he is currently preparing (2019).

Lohse lives in Worpswede .

Secret authorship behind Shakespeare

The Citizen Scientist (Citizen Scientists) Holger Lohse assumes that the duo William Stanley and Edward Dyer as secret authorship behind Shakespeare was. In his opinion, “the deep artistic quality and the virtuoso formal quality as well as the refinement of the language” exceeded “the abilities of someone who has never attended school and was illiterate all his life.” As evidence, he sees the list of actors in the first complete edition of the dramas, the first folio. In 2014 Lohse published his book "Shakespeare were others: solving the authorship question".

“After the discovery, it was clear to me that Shakespeare was two: Stanley and Dyer. Other authors, such as Bertolt Brecht , have assumed that there were several Shakespeare . The fact that there is now proof of this fascinated me so much that I said to myself that it had to be known, that's why I wrote my book. "

- Holger Lohse : taz , August 13, 2018

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. In: portal.dnb.de. 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Ralf Lorenzen: "Shakespeare were different". For over ten years, Holger Lohse has been working as a kind of citizen scientist on the new translation of all 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare. In doing so, he made a discovery that could revolutionize Shakespeare research. In: The daily newspaper . August 13, 2018, accessed December 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Peter Intelmann: Who was Shakespeare - and if so, how many? William Shakespeare died 400 years ago. But did the Stratford man actually write the work attributed to him? Not only Mark Twain had his doubts. A translator from Lübeck assumes that the well-known author didn't even exist. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . January 7, 2016, accessed December 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lohse, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator, engineer, painter and citizen scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck