Paul Kárpáti

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Paul Kárpáti at his reading on January 26, 2012 at the Central and State Library in Berlin

Paul (Pál) Andreas Kárpáti (born March 20, 1933 in Györköny / Jerking; † February 5, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German Hungarologist , linguist for the Finno-Ugric branch , translator and editor.

Life

Burial place on St. Andreas

After being expelled from Hungary in 1947, Kárpáti came to Saxony with his family. He first studied Slavic Studies in Leipzig, before switching to Finno-Ugric Studies in Berlin after two semesters . From 1961 to 1998 Kárpáti was a research associate at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was a translator and editor of Hungarian poetry and prose (fiction) as well as co-author of a Hungarian course and a dictionary. He was friends with Hans Skirecki , Franz Fühmann , Gábor Hajnal , Márton Kalász , Sándor Kányádi and Paul Alfred Kleinert .

Kárpáti was married to the nurse Lilian Kárpáti and had a daughter and two sons.

Kárpáti's grave is in the St. Andreas Cemetery in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen.

Works, transmissions and editions (selection)

  • with Hans Skirecki: We are learning to speak Hungarian. Leipzig 1964.
  • with Hans Skirecki: German-Hungarian conversation book. Leipzig 1968.
  • Gábor Hajnal: Walpurgis Night. Poems. Reclam, Leipzig 1978. (with an afterword by Franz Fühmann; same, modified and expanded, 1986)
  • Modern poetry from Hungary. Reclam, Leipzig 1982.
  • Gábor Garai: The end of summer. People and World, Berlin 1983.
  • Árpád Tóth: Evening halo. Corvina, Budapest 1987, ISBN 963-13-2316-1 .
  • Hungarian poetry of the 20th century. Structure, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-351-00512-1 .
  • Márton Kalász: Winter lamb. Novel. Styria Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-222-12120-6 .
  • Másnap / The next day: new Hungarian poetry. Gutke, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-928872-24-9 .
  • András Mezei: Speech fragments or silent dialogue with Adorno. City Budapest and Oberbaum Berlin 1999, ISBN 963-9114-11-1 .
  • Gyula Illyés: Quiet afternoon: Poems in prose. ed. by Werner Schweikert in the Schweikert archive. Flein near Heilbronn 2003, ISBN 3-933696-05-4 .
  • Márton Kalász: The rose painter. Poems. bilingual ed. by Paul Alfred Kleinert . Verlag der Nessing'schen Buchdruckerei, Berlin 2004. (with revisions by Franz Fühmann and Paul Kárpáti)
  • Sándor Kányády: Going home. Vincze, Szentendre 2004.
  • Letters from the writer's workshop: 1961–1984 - Műfordítói műhelylevelek / Franz Fühmann. Communicated by the addressee Paul Kárpáti. Argumentum Budapest / Pernobilis Edition in Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86703-385-5 .
  • From Gyula Illyés to Sándor Tatár in transmissions by Paul Kárpáti. ed. by Paul Alfred Kleinert. International Franz Fühmann Circle of Friends, Berlin 2018.

Translations in interlinear versions (selection)

  • Milan Füst: Autumn gloom. Poems. Reclam, Leipzig 1974. (Adaptation by Franz Fühmann)
  • Endre Ady: The lost rider. Volk & Welt, Berlin 1977.
  • Mihály Vörösmarty: When the night is exhausted. Poems. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1982. (Adaptation by Franz Fühmann)
  • with Gábor Hajnal: Mihály Babits: Question in the evening. Poems. Corvina, Budapest 1983, ISBN 963-13-1692-0 . (Adaptations by Annemarie Bostroem , Günther Deicke , Franz Fühmann and others)
  • Márton Kalász: Measured comfort. Reclam, Leipzig 1984. (Adaptations by Günther Deicke, Franz Fühmann, Heinz Kahlau Heinz Kahlau , Günter Kunert , Kito Lorenc and others)
  • Mihály Vörösmarty: Csongor and Tünde. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1985. (Adaptation by Franz Fühmann)
  • Ágnes Nemes Nagy: Look anyway. Insel, Leipzig 1986. (Adaptation by Franz Fühmann)

Awards

Various work and residency grants since the 1950s, u. a. grammatical language assurance for the Karelians and Komi .

Annual memory

On the occasion of his 85th birthday, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Berlin and the international Franz Fühmann Circle of Friends organized a commemorative event in honor of Paul Kárpáti on March 20, 2018 with the title “Language creation in post-creation”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Kárpáti ( memento of October 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on lyrikwelt.de, accessed on March 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kárpáti, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kárpáti, Paul Andreas; Kárpáti, Pál
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hungarian scientist, linguist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Györköny (Jerking)
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2017
Place of death Berlin