Kai Molvig
Kai Molvig ( pseudonym for: Johannes Jakobus Molvig , born May 3, 1911 in Riga , Russian Empire , † April 2, 1996 in Moosburg an der Isar , Germany ) was a Norwegian dancer , pianist and literary translator .
Life
Kai Molvig was the son of a Norwegian businessman and his Dutch wife. After graduating from high school , Molvig completed training in classical and modern dance (with Victor Gsovsky in Berlin, among others ). Engagements as a solo dancer on various German theaters followed: from 1935 to 1938 in Mainz , from 1938 to 1941 in Düsseldorf and from 1941 in Essen . From 1942 Kai Molvig, who had previously had a relationship with the actor Charles Regnier , lived with Regnier and his wife Pamela Wedekind in a shared apartment in Munich-Schwabing . Molvig worked at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and also worked as a pianist and composer as an artistic assistant to Pamela Wedekind. Furthermore, Molvig worked as a pianist in the film The Great Rotation - Friedrich Hollaender Revue .
In the sixties and seventies Kai Molvig worked as a translator , who in addition to Norwegian and German also spoke English , Dutch , Russian and Latvian . He translated numerous, predominantly contemporary American authors into German, a. a. Philip Roth and Hubert Selby .
Increasing hearing loss forced Molvig to give up his translation work in the 1980s . His last years were marked by a serious injury that he sustained in a fall. Molvig last lived in a nursing home in Eching near Munich and died in the hospital in Moosburg an der Isar from the consequences of a stroke .
From 1981 to 1983 Kai Molvig was a holder of the Hieronymusring donated by the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ , a traveling award that he passed on to Inge von Weidenbaum .
Translations
- James Baldwin : Blues for Mister Charlie , Berlin 1969
- Margaret Craven : I heard the owl, she called my name , Reinbek 1976
- Gerald Durrell : Nothing but Animals in Your Head , Reinbek 1975
- Gerald Durrell: Birds, Critters and Relatives , Reinbek 1971
- Paul Gallico : Julian and the soap bubbles , Reinbek 1975
- Paul Gallico: Mrs. Harris flies to Moscow , Reinbek 1976
- Erica Jong : Fear of Flying , Frankfurt am Main 1976
- Michael Korda : And always only the finest , Munich [u. a.] 1981
- Toon Kortooms : Clear the way for Theodor , Munich 1962
- Toon Kortooms: Beekman and Beekman , Munich 1963
- Toon Kortooms: My children eat peat , Munich 1961
- Marginalia on Hubert Selby "Last Exit Brooklyn" , Reinbek 1968
- Elizabeth McNeill : Nine Weeks and Three Days , Reinbek 1979
- Yukio Mishima : Madame de Sade , Reinbek 1978
- Jan Morris : Spain , Munich [u. a.] 1966
- Richard Price : Scharfe Zeiten , Reinbek 1976
- James Purdy : The Award , Reinbek 1970
- John Rechy : Night in the City , Munich [u. a.] 1965
- Philip Roth : The breast , Munich [u. a.] 1979
- Philip Roth: Portnoy's complaints , Reinbek 1970
- Hubert Selby : The Demon , Reinbek 1980
- Hubert Selby: Last exit Brooklyn , Reinbek 1968
- Hubert Selby: Mauern , Reinbek 1972
- Hubert Selby: Requiem for a dream , Reinbek 1981
- Terry Southern : Candy or Die sexte der Welten , Reinbek 1967
- Terry Southern: Der Superporno , Reinbek 1971
- Steven Turner : The Thirteenth Summer , Reinbek 1971
- John Updike : Under the astronaut moon , Reinbek 1973
- Eudora Welty : The Optimist's Daughter , Reinbek 1973
- John Weston : Jolly , Munich 1968
- Tennessee Williams : Memoirs , Frankfurt am Main 1977
literature
- Dieter Allers: People in the house. Biographical miniatures from Schwabing . Allitera, Munich 2013
Web links
- Kai Molvig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Kai Molvig in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ For biographical details, this article is based on the entry on Kai Molvig in: Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (Ed.): Mann für Mann, Berlin, Vol. 1 (2010), pp. 839–840
- ↑ Kai Molvig as a pianist in The Great Turn - Friedrich Hollaender Revue . Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Molvig, Kai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Molvig, Johannes Jakobus (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian-German dancer, pianist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1996 |
| Place of death | Moosburg an der Isar , Germany |