Judith Klein (author)

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Judith Klein (full name: Judith Natalia Klein; * 1946 ) is an author and translator living in Germany and France.

Life

She began as a literary and social scientist (Dr. phil. Habil.) And taught at German and French universities until 1991. She stayed in France , Israel and Portugal for research purposes . Her literary work revolves around the theory and practice of the literary representation of history, especially the Holocaust . Since 1991 she has worked as a freelance journalist for radio and press, as a translator and as an author of fictional texts in which she visualizes people on the edge of nowhere. She wrote radio and newspaper essays about Elias Canetti , Isabelle Eberhardt , Romain Gary , Primo Levi , Miguel Torga , Simone Weil and others. a.

Works (selection)

  • German Zionism and the Arabs of Palestine. An examination of the German-Zionist publications 1917-1938 , Frankfurt 1982
  • Literature and Genocide . Representations of the National Socialist mass extermination in French literature , Cologne / Vienna / Weimar 1992 ISBN 3-205-05536-5
  • The fine sand of memory. Jewish-Maghreb literature of the present , Hamburg 1998 ISBN 3-43452008-2
  • The translators or: because there are no llamas in Germany , Oldenburg 2002 ISBN 3-89621-152-8
  • Return to Lindeira. Past future and present past in Portugal , Münster 2007 ISBN 3-920591-87-9
  • Voices in the experimental laboratory of understanding , in: Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstandings an der Moskwa, Reinbek 1996
  • Diction comme contradiction. Allemagne et langue allemande dans la vie et l'oeuvre de Primo Levi , in: Les Temps Modernes, 606, 1999
  • Schoscha , in: Man seeks meaning. Five experiences with the world religions, Hamburg 2008

Translations and co-translations

She has transmitted works by Simone de Beauvoir , Jean-Paul Sartre , Claude Chabrol , Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Michel Winock, François Cheng , Brina Svit , Denise Affonço and Anne Wiazemsky , among others .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Baier, Between Kasbah and Exile. Judith Klein's pioneering work on Jewish Maghreb literature, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25./26. July 1998
  2. ↑ Heidi Aschenberg, Return to Lindeira ..., in: lusorama, 69-70, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Judith N .; Klein, Judith Natalia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1946