Julia Marianne Kirchner

Julia Marianne Kirchner (* 1937 in Wiesbaden ) is a German Romance philologist and translator of literary works , mainly from Italian and French.

She is the daughter of the Hölderlin researcher Werner Kirchner and the painter Annemarie von Jakimow-Kruse .

After completing her apprenticeship, she studied Romance languages ​​and was assistant to Siegfried Unseld at Suhrkamp Verlag in 1961/62 . In 1966 she received her doctorate from the University of Marburg .

She lives in Wiesbaden.

Publications

• Investigation of the phenomenon of littérature engagé in Italy (1940–1960). (Dissertation), Verlag Görich & Weierhäuser, Marburg 1966

Translations

• Italo Calvino : Stories. German by Julia M. Kirchner. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1964.
• Italo Calvino: Marcovaldo or a simple man's adventure in the city told according to the calendar. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1967. (co-translator).
• Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette : The Princess of Cleves . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1967. (Afterword by Émile Magne ). 2nd edition 1984
• Dominique Fernandez : Southern Italian trip . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
• The Abbe de Choisy in women's clothes . Memoirs - With an afterword by Georges Mongredien. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
• Bertrand Russell : Autobiography . Volumes I-III. 1. 1872-1914; 2. 1914-1944; 3. 1944-1967. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977.
• Italo Calvino: One afternoon, as Adam . In: Franz Rottensteiner : Fantastic stories . Island 1985.
• Italo Calvino: A Reader's Adventure. Carl Hanser, Munich 1986. (co-translator).
• Italo Calvino: Last comes the raven. dtv, Munich 1989. (co-translator).
• Jean Orieux : The Life of Voltaire . Island, 1996.
• Italo Calvino: Delicate memories. dtv, Munich 2000. (co-translator).
• Italo Calvino: Difficult love affairs . All the stories. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24325-5 (co-translator).

Web links

• Literature by and about Julia Marianne Kirchner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Index entry for Julia Marianne Kirchner in the Deutsche Biographie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Schopf: "So I should be an angel and not an author." Adorno and his Frankfurt publishers. The correspondence with Peter Suhrkamp and Siegfried Unseld , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a.Main 2003 (on Kirchner pp. 236, 244, 245)