Marija Kon

Marija Kon , née Bergmann (born January 15, 1894 in Hadžići near Sarajevo, † August 9, 1987 in Sarajevo ) was a Yugoslav German scholar.

Life

Marija Kon, who grew up bilingual German and Serbo-Croatian , studied German and Slavic studies at the University of Vienna from 1912 . There she received her doctorate in 1916 with a thesis on The German Poems of Petar Preradović ; This made her the first woman to receive a doctorate from Bosnia-Herzegovina. She then worked as a teacher for German and Serbo-Croatian at high schools in Mostar , Cetinje and Sarajevo until she was deported to an Italian internment camp in 1941. After her liberation in 1943, she became the headmistress of the Glina grammar school . She was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia .

In 1950 she was a co-founder of the German Department of the University of Sarajevo ; there she was a lecturer, from 1957 extraordinary professor for German literature .

She translated several books from German into Serbo-Croatian, including:

• Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen : The adventurous Simplicissimus
• Heinrich von Kleist : The Marquise of O ....
• Thomas Mann : Tonio Kröger and Mario and the Magician , published as Izbor (selection)
• Georg Lukács : Goethe and his time
• Anna Seghers : The dead stay young

literature

• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .
• German Studies in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-1992 , ed. v. Christoph König, 1995 ( ISBN 3-11-014419-0 ), p. 73f
• Savremeni književni prevodioci Jugoslavije , ed. v. Slobodan A. Jovanović, 1970