Julia Schiff
Julia Schiff (* 1940 in Deta , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German writer and translator .
Life
In 1951 Julia Schiff and her family were deported to the Baragan Steppe for five years . She fictionalized this traumatic experience in her first novel Steppensalz, published in 2000.
After her first studies at the teacher training college in Timisoara (1956-58) she worked as a primary school teacher. From 1969 to 1974 she studied Romance Philology at the Philological Faculty of the University of the West Timișoara and then worked as a teacher at a grammar school.
In 1981 she moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1983 until her retirement, Julia Schiff worked as a chair secretary at the Institute for Romance Philology in Munich.
Julia Schiff writes poetry, prose, reviews, essays, cultural reports and cultural-historical articles that have been published in newspapers, magazines and on the radio. She also translates from Hungarian into Romanian and German (among others - with Robert Schiff - works by Márton Kalász ).
Among other things, she received the Poetry Prize from Edition L (Loßburg) in 1989 , the Danube Swabian Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg in 2001 and a translation grant from the Magyar Fordítók Foundation in Budapest .
Julia Schiff is married to the painter and writer Robert Schiff and lives in Munich .
Single track
- Steppe salt. Novel. Verlag Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 2000; New edition: Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86356-033-1 .
- Moth time. Poems. Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-940756-18-3 .
- Heron dance. Novel. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86356-014-0 .
- Shifts . Novel. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86356-075-1 .
- Fool's gold. Roman, Verlag danube books, Ulm 2016, ISBN 978-3-946046-05-9 .
Translation (selection)
- Márton Kalász: Decimation Note. With Robert Schiff. New Newspaper Books, Volume 3, Budapest 2002.
- Márton Kalász: Dark wound. Holderlin poems. With Robert Schiff. Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2003.
- Ákos Győrffy: Motionless . Poems. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-86356-048-5 .
- Side lights. Fénycsóvák. Anthology of Hungarian Poems. Bilingual edition Hungarian / German. Afterwords by Orsolya Kalász and Árpárd Hudy. Edition Lyrik Kabinett, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-93877-647-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Julia Schiff in the catalog of the German National Library
- cet-literatur.de , biography Julia Schiff and selection of poems
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julia Schiff: Katzengold. In: danube-books.eu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ship, Julia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deta , Kingdom of Romania |