Hubert Witt

Hubert Witt (born June 20, 1935 in Breslau ; † October 11, 2016 in Leipzig ) was a German re-poet and editor .

Life

As a ten-year-old, who had already attended school in Glatz in Silesia for three years , Hubert Witt came to Jeber-Bergfrieden , today Saxony-Anhalt, after the end of World War II . He obtained his Abitur in Roßlau . From 1953 to 1957 he completed a course in German at the University of Leipzig , accompanied by internships in the Berliner Ensemble . The literary scholar Hans Mayer was one of his most important teachers.

In 1959 Hubert Witt became a lecturer at Reclam Verlag in Leipzig . In 1986 he began teaching at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature , which he held until 1993.

Services

In the 1990s, Witt initiated the Leipzig literary autumn , was temporarily a member of the "Saxon Cultural Senate" and a member of the board of trustees of the German Literature Fund .

He has written numerous translations of poetry, mainly from Middle High German and Yiddish , published literary articles and wrote for radio. He did extensive editorial work and was a member of the PEN Center Germany . Hubert Witt is the father of the artist Ines Eck .

Honors

• In 1979 he received the F. C. Weiskopf Prize and in 1985 the GDR National Prize, 1st class for art and literature (both within a collective of the Philipp Reclam jr. Publishing house).

obituary

• Stephan Stach: His piece of partisan work was a masterpiece - it brought a breath of fresh air to the state-controlled GDR publishing industry: On the death of the Leipzig lecturer Hubert Witt.

Publications

Translations

• The fiddler from the ghetto. Yiddish poetry from Poland . From d. Yiddish transferred and selected by Hubert Witt. Introduction "Poetry of a Murdered People" by Berl Mark (Director of the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw) ). (= Reclams Universal Library . Volume 195). Leipzig 1966.
• Oswald von Wolkenstein : for these worlds pleasure. Leipzig 1968.
• My Jewish eyes. Yiddish poetry from Poland . With illustrations by Hermann Naumann . Leipzig 1969.
• Mendele Mojcher Sforim : Fischke the lame. Beggar novel . Leipzig 1978.
• Walther von der Vogelweide : Frau Welt, I drank from you . Berlin 1979.
• Walther von der Vogelweide. (= Poetry album . No. 159). Berlin 1980.
• Rajzel Zychlinski : Bird bread. Poems from five decades . (= Insel-Bücherei . Volume 1044). Leipzig 1981.
• Itzik Manger . (= Poetry album. No. 205). Berlin 1984.
• Scholem Alejchem : Stempenu. Novel. Afterword also Hubert Witt. With 28 lithographs by Anatoli Kaplan . Publisher Philipp Reclam jr. , Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-379-00380-8 .
• Johannes von Saaz : The tiller and death. Afterword also Hubert Witt. With 7 stone prints in asphalt scraping technique by Rolf Münzner . Leipzig Bibliophile Evenings V., Leipzig 2000.
• Rajzel Zychlinski: di lider. The poems . Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-86150-448-0 .
• Lajser Ajchenrand : I call from below . Lider and Ssonetn. Poems in Yiddish and German. Transferred from Hubert Witt, Ammann, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-250-10501-5 .
• Abraham Sutzkever : Songs from the Sea of ​​Death. Poems . Afterword also Hubert Witt. Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-250-10531-2 .
• Abraham Sutzkever: Wilner Ghetto 1941–1944 . Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-250-10530-5 .
• Johannes von Saaz : The tiller and death. Improved edition of the translation from the Early New High German by Hubert Witt. With a reprint of the original edition from 1462 and 33 lithographs by Rolf Münzner . Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-86660-199-4 .

Editorships

• Memories of Brecht . Sketches and essays . (= Reclams Universal Library. Volume 117). Leipzig 1964.
• Günter Kunert : Notes in chalk. Poems. (= Reclams Universal Library. Volume 369). Leipzig 1970.
• Bertolt Brecht: About the friendliness of the world . (= Insel-Bücherei. Volume 907). Leipzig 1971.
• Brecht. As They Knew Him. Seven Seas Publishers , Berlin 1974.
• Thinking it over. 30 Stories from the German Democratic Republic. Seven Seas Publishers, Berlin 1977.
• Bertolt Brecht: The town planner . (= Insel-Bücherei. Volume 992). Leipzig 1978.
• Joseph Roth : The Rebellion . (= Insel-Bücherei. Volume 1028). Leipzig 1979.
• Arno Schmidt : From the life of a faun. Short novels. (= Reclams Universal Library. Volume 794). Leipzig 1981.
• Stephan Hermlin : Texts. Materials. Pictures . Publishing house Philipp Reclam jr., Leipzig 1985.
• The not extinguished words. West German poetry since 1945. Poetry from the FRG. Poetry from West Berlin . Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1985.
• Wolf Biermann : Lovers in a political landscape. Poems and songs. (= Reclams Universal Library. Volume 18068). Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-018068-6 .
• Jürgen Teller (philosopher) : Hope and danger. Essays, articles, letters 1954–1999. With contributions by Ernst Bloch , Volker Braun and Friedrich Dieckmann . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001.
• Günter Kunert: The message of the hotel room to the guest. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-446-20460-1 .
• Jürgen Teller: Letters to Friends 1942–1999. Edited with Johanna Teller. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-17344-1 .
• Günter Kunert: Information for emergencies . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-20991-6 .
• Günter Kunert: Comforting catastrophes. Records 1999-2011. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24129-9 .
• Günter Kunert: Continued Legacy. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24129-9 .
• with Heinz Zander : Historia by D. Johann Fausten , the far-reaching magician and black artist (1587). Leipzig 1988.

Radio plays

• Mountain of my sorrow. A collage based on texts by and about Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Saarländischer Rundfunk 1995.

literature

• Information from a book maker - Hubert Witt . Interview with Christa Grimm. In: instigated. Information sheet of the Saxon Literature Council e. V., Leipzig. Issue 3/2005.
• Christoph Left:  Witt, Hubert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubert Witt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Hilbig Society: Obituary Hubert Witt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 26, 2016.