Michael Engelhard

This article is about the diplomat and translator Michael Engelhard. For other people see Michael Engelhardt .

Michael Engelhard (born October 15, 1936 in Hamburg - Barmbek ; † October 2, 2016 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat and literary translator . He served as speechwriter among others for Federal President Walter Scheel (1975–1979) and Richard von Weizsäcker . For this he drafted his speech on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war .

Life

Engelhard's father was a composer and opera singer who became unemployed after the end of World War II . Michael grew up in Osnabrück and attended boarding school in Thuine , the Carolinum in Osnabrück and the grammar school in Bad Iburg . From 1956 he studied law at the University of Hamburg . He spent the summer semester of 1958 at the University of Lausanne . From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the University of Munich , where he passed his first state examination in 1961. Engelhard entered the diplomatic service . He served in South Korea , Algeria , Liberia , as ambassador to Cameroon and was most recently consul general in Milan and Chicago . He belonged to the SPD .

Engelhard particularly valued Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin . He published the first complete translation of Pushkin's poems into German and also translated from Italian, including Giacomo Leopardi and Michelangelo .

Translations (selection)

• Michelangelo Buonarroti: All the poems: Italian and German. Transferred and edited by Michael Engelhard, Insel, Frankfurt / Leipzig 1992.
• Giacomo Leopardi: Canti. Chants. Italian / German, retouched by Michael Engelhard, Berlin 1990. Reprint Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7466-6039-4 .
• Alexander Pushkin: The Poems. Translated from the Russian by Michael Engelhard. Published by Rolf-Dietrich Keil, Insel, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2003, ISBN 978-3-458-17173-7 .
• Michelangelo Buonarotti: love poems, Italian and German. From the Italian by Michael Engelhard, selected and provided with an afterword by Boris von Brauchitsch , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2007, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-458-34944-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernstein Verlag. Accessed December 1, 2018 . 
2. ↑ The last polymath. In: Cicero.de. Accessed December 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Personnel file at the Foreign Office, PA AA, P14, Bd. 64325.
4. ↑ NN: The speech writer - Michael Engelhard: Formulation artist for Genscher, Scheel and Weizsäcker. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, June 24, 2010, accessed on December 3, 2018
5. ↑ "Then the head begins to weigh" . In: Der Spiegel . tape 7 , February 11, 1985 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 1, 2018]).