Niki Eideneier-Anastassiadi

Niki Eideneier (also: Eideneier-Anastassiadi ) Νίκη Αΐντεναιερ-Αναστασιάδη (born October 28, 1940 in Kilkis , Greece ) is a German-Greek neo -Graecist , literary translator and publisher . She is the wife of the Byzantinist and Neo-Graecist Hans Eideneier and ran Romiosini Verlag in Cologne from 1982 to 2014 . From 1985 to 1993 she was a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council as a foreigner representative .

Eideneier-Anastassiadi had studied Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the 1960s , then byzantine studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Because Eideneier had been working for the Greek program of Bayerischer Rundfunk , which was active against the military junta in Greece , since 1964 , she was deprived of her Greek citizenship. Since the end of the 1970s she has been a lecturer in modern Greek language and literature at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Out of this activity grew both the language course Modern Greek is not that difficult, which she developed together with her husband, as well as the foundation of the publishing house.

In addition to various neo-Greek and journalistic works, Niki Eideneier has translated Greek writers such as Giannis Ritsos , Vassilis Alexakis , Manolis Anagnostakis , Jorgos Chimonas , Alekos Fassianos into German and German authors such as Peter Handke , Günter Grass , Ingeborg Bachmann , Daniel Call , Liane Dirks into Modern Greek, moreover, even scientific literature as the history of Byzantine folk literature and the farewell of Byzantium by Hans-Georg Beck .

From 2008 to 2012 she was chair of the Πολιτιστική Ομάδα Πρωτοβουλίας - Initiativgruppe Greek Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, founded in 1983 . V.

Romiosini Verlag has ceased its work in German-Greek literature transfer since June 2014. The Center for Modern Greece partly took over the titles of the Romiosini publishing house and has set itself the goal of maintaining Greek and Greece-related literature (fiction, non-fiction and specialist literature) in German.

Awards

• In 1998 she received the Turkish-Greek Abdi İpekçi Prize for Peace and International Understanding together with Arzu Toker , with whom she had published the trilingual Kalimerhaba reader .
• In 2007 she was awarded the Ring of Honor of the German-Greek Societies .
• In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): The sunflowers of the Jews. The Jews in Modern Greek Literature. An anthology. Cologne: Romiosini 2006, ISBN 3-929889-77-3 .
• (Ed., With Arzu Toker ): Kalimerhaba. Greek-German-Turkish reader (trilingual). Cologne: Romiosini 1992, ISBN 9783923728534 .
• (Ed., With Hans Eideneier): Thessaloniki. Pictures of a city . Cologne 1992.
• Hans and Niki Eideneier: Modern Greek is not that difficult :
  • Part 1. A course with many songs, illustrations, photos and caricatures by Kostas Mitropulos. 5th, improved edition, Wiesbaden: L. Reichert 1993, ISBN 3-88226-595-7 (answer key, speech and music cassette are available).
  • Part 2. A course with many songs, illustrations, photos and caricatures by Kostas Mitropulos. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert 1991, ISBN 978-3-88226-510-1 (answer key, speech and music cassette are available).
  • Part 3: 100 texts from easy to difficult . Wiesbaden: L. Reichert 1998, ISBN 978-3-89500-080-5 .
  • Key vocabulary. Basic grammar . Wiesbaden: L. Reichert 1986, ISBN 978-3-88226-284-1 .
• Niki Eideneier, Dieter Motzkus and Kurt Roeske : Ακούτε. An introduction to modern Greek based on ancient Greek (booklet accompanying the Compact-Cassette). Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg 1996, ISBN 3-425-06864-4 .

literature

• Ministry for Generations, Family, Women and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia : Working successfully with two cultures. Immigrants and their companies , 2007, pp. 16-17: Niki Eideneier, Romiosini Verlag, "Literature can help understanding" (download service)

Web links

• Literature by and about Niki Eideneier in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications on the website of the European Society for Neo-Greek Studies
• Interview by Niki Eideneier with Kyro Ponte
• Society of Greek Authors in Germany: Biobibliography with Photography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See homepage Πολιτιστική Ομάδα Πρωτοβουλίας ( memento of the original from February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 2010. 
2. ↑ Τιμητική εκδήλωση για την Νίκη Eideneier- Αναστασιάδη από το ΑΠΘ - Life Events . In: Life Events . May 10, 2018 ( life-events.gr [accessed May 14, 2018]).