Karl August Horst

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Karl August Horst (born August 10, 1913 in Darmstadt , † December 30, 1973 in Benediktbeuern ) was a German writer , translator and literary critic .

Life

Karl August Horst was the son of a businessman. He attended a humanistic grammar school in Darmstadt , where he passed the final examination in 1931. He then studied German , Romance languages and philosophy at the universities in Berlin , Munich , Göttingen and Bonn . After the Second World War , in which Horst took part as a radio operator in the Air Force, he worked as an assistant to Ernst Robert Curtius at the University of Bonn until 1948 . In 1947 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on Calderón to the doctorate of philosophy.

In the following years Karl August Horst worked as a literary critic (including for the magazine " Merkur ", for the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " and the " Neue Zürcher Zeitung "). Horst first lived in Munich, later in Benediktbeuern. He published literary studies, but also his own literary works. He was also the editor of the series "Narrators of the World" and translated numerous authors from Spanish (especially Jorge Luis Borges ), French, Italian and English.

Karl August Horst was a member of the German PEN Center from 1963 .

Awards

Works

  • Elegies , Constance a. Lake Constance [u. a.] 1937
  • The metaphor in Calderón's comedias , Bonn 1947
  • Me and grace , Freiburg 1951
  • Zero , Frankfurt a. M. 1951
  • Ina Seidel , Stuttgart 1956
  • The German literature of the present , Munich 1957
  • The spectrum of the modern novel , Munich 1960
  • The scorpion , Munich 1963
  • The Adventure of German Literature in the 20th Century , Munich 1964
  • The reduction of the term reality in recent narrative literature , Mainz 1972
  • Between the Chairs , Mainz 1972
  • The bird script will soon be unsealed , Mainz 1983

Editing

  • Sebastian Hensel : The Mendelssohn family 1729 - 1847 , Freiburg [u. a.] 1959
  • José Ortega y Gasset : Triumph of the moment, splendor of duration , Stuttgart 1960
  • O. Henry : Short Stories , Freiburg im Breisgau 1967
  • Literature and Science , Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1968

Translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Villa Massimo | Scholarships. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Horst, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, translator and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1973
Place of death Benediktbeuern