Jerome Rothenberg

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Jerome Rothenberg (born December 11, 1931 in New York City ) is an American author , translator , poet and ethno poet .

life and work

Jerome Rothenberg was born to Morris Rothenberg and Estelle Lichtenstien Rothenberg and grew up in New York City. He is the father of Matthew Rothenberg. He studied at the City College of New York until 1952 and received a Masters in Literature from the University of Michigan in 1953 . From 1953 to 1955 he did military service in the United States Army in Mainz . He then took up studies at Columbia University , which he finished in 1959. He founded Hawk's Well Press , New York, and was there from 1959 to 1964 publisher and editor.

“Ethnopoetics” is a word that Jerome Rothenberg coined and which refers to the interface between poetry , linguistics , anthropology and ethnology . "Alcheringa", the first magazine for ethnopoetry, which appeared from 1970 to 1980, was founded by him. Rothenberg worked with anthropologists Dennis Tedlock and Dell Hymes and the poets Gary Snyder and Nathaniel Tarn.

In the late 1950s he published the first English translations of poems by Paul Celan , Günter Grass and Ingeborg Bachmann . In his book Writing Through he translates poems by Celan, Lorca , Nezval , Schwitters , Picasso and Gomringer .

Since 1960 Jerome Rothenberg has been visiting professor at numerous American universities, the Mannes College of Music , Binghamton University , the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee , The New School , San Diego State University , the University of Southern California , the University of California, Riverside and the University at Albany, The State University of New York . As a professor of fine arts and literature, he worked at San Diego State University until his retirement . He lived in New York City until 1972, then moved to the Allegany Reservation in Cattaraugus County , New York, and later to San Diego .

At the documenta 8 Rothenberg took the Dada sound (with Bertram Turetzky , 62 min, 1986) and the radio play of the beaver (with Charles Morrow 36 min, 1984) part, both from the West German Radio in Cologne were produced. The radio play of the beaver pays homage to his artistic forerunners Hugo Ball (1886–1927), Francis Picabia (1879–1953), Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) and Tristan Tzara (1896–1963). The radio play consists of Jerome Rothenberg's poems to these four Dada artists, linked by his own biography, his voice, Dada quotes, horse songs of the Seneca Indians (he was a member of the beaver clan himself), literary quotations from his onomatopoeic works and the Yiddish songs of his ancestors.

Awards (selection)

Guggenheim Fellowship , National Endowment for the Arts ; 1994 and 1996 PEN Oakland / Josephine Miles Literary Award; two PEN Center USA awards for translation; 2007 San Diego Public Library's Local Author Lifetime Achievement Award and 2011 Medalla al Mérito Literario

literature

  • Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics , Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg, University of California Press, 1983 ISBN 978-0-52004-5-316
  • Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry , Vol. 1–4, Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris University of California Press 1998 ISBN 978-0-52020-8-643
  • Writing Through: Translations and Variations , Jerome Rothenberg, Wesleyan Poetry Series 2004, ISBN 978-0-81956-5-884
  • Triptych: Poland / 1931, Khurbn, The Burning Babe, Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein New Directions, 2007 ISBN 978-0-81121-6-920

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Academie of American Poets poet Jerome Rothenberg accessed on August 15, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ Wesleyan University Press Writing Through, Translations and Variations, Jerome Rothenberg, accessed on August 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Poetry Foundation Jerome Rothenberg, born 1931, accessed on August 15, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ Department of visual arts UCSD Jerome Rothenberg ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 15, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visarts.ucsd.edu
  5. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 339; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
  6. ↑ Jerome Rothenberg Contemporary American Poet , accessed on August 15, 2015.
  7. ↑ Wesleyan University Press Writing Through: Translations and Variations, Jerome Rothenberg accessed on August 15, 2015 (English)
  8. ↑ The Fiend The Shaman of Subversion: Jerome Rothenberg's Radical Deconstructions - Mark Wilson accessed on August 15, 2015 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Rothenberg, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, translator, poet and ethno poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City