Percy Eckstein

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Percy Eckstein (born February 21, 1899 in Baden near Vienna , † March 19, 1962 in Rome ) was an Austrian writer, journalist and translator from Italian.

Life

Birthplace of Percy Eckstein, Villa Aichelburg , Baden near Vienna

Percy Eckstein's father Friedrich Eckstein was a wealthy private scholar , esthete and friend of Sigmund Freud . Mother Bertha Eckstein-Diener left the family in 1904 and went her own way as a writer under the name of Sir Galahad . Eckstein emigrated to Switzerland in 1939 and lived in Rome from 1940.

Eckstein has translated some important works by Alberto Moravia . His translation of the pedagogical standard work by Maria Montessori Children are different ( Il segreto dell'infanzia , 1952) achieved a repeated and high edition .

Eckstein has also written for Die Zeit and Weltwoche . He has published two works of his own.

Fonts

  • Ferdinand von Lesseps - Triumph and Tragedy of an Optimist . Luckmann-Verlag, Vienna 1947.
  • Ferdinand von Lesseps, the man who linked the seas . Gutenberg Book Guild, Vienna 1951.
  • Brutus in Paris. Novel . Diana-Verlag, Vienna 1952.

Translations

  • Maria Montessori: Children are different , Translator: Percy Eckstein u. Ulrich Weber. Arranged: Helene Helming. Klett, Stuttgart 1952
  • Dino Buzzati : The Fortress . Biederstein, Munich 1954
  • Dino Buzzati: The Tatar Desert ( Il deserto dei Tartari )
  • Dino Buzzati: The red thread of fate . Tauchnitz, Stuttgart 1955
  • Dino Buzzati: The old hotel . Reclam, Stuttgart 1958
  • Bruce Marshall : Girls in May . Hegner, Cologne 1959
  • Luigi Pirandello : Master Tales . Diogenes Zurich 1987
  • Bonaventura Tecchi : The Egoists . Classen, Zurich 1960
  • Paolo Levi : The tape of Commissioner Santi , radio play on Radio Bremen 1961, by Heinz Schimmelpfennig with Helmut Peine
  • Pier Maria Pasinetti: Venetian red . Biederstein Verlag, Munich 1961
  • Uberto Paolo Quintavalle: The girl Giuggi . Herbig (Kahnert), Berlin-Grunewald 1962
  • Ugo Moretti: happiness at night , novel. 1962
  • Nino Modica: Italian Passion . Blanvalet, Berlin 1960
  • Isa Mari: Hell in the city . Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1959
  • Luigi Pirandello : In a foreign country . Sauerländer, Aarau 1958
  • Paolo Levi : The way is dark . Desch, Munich 1957
  • Carlo Bernari : Vesuvius no longer smokes . Biederstein, Munich 1956
  • Alba De Céspedes , The Forbidden Diary . Schaffrath, Cologne 1955
  • Alba De Céspedes, Alone in this house . Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1976
  • Alba De Céspedes: The Forbidden Diary . Schaffrath, Cologne 1955
  • Giuseppe Patroni Griffi : You still die of love ( D'amore si muore ). Play in 3 acts. Desch, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1960

Alberto Moravia

  • The conformist (Il conformista ). Desch, Vienna 1960
  • Cesira / And yet they live . Desch, Vienna 1958 ( La ciociara ). Film: And yet they live
  • A trip to Russia ( Un mese nell'URSS ). Desch, Munich 1959
  • La noia , Munich: Desch, 1961
  • Beatrice Cenci : Play in 3 acts with aftermath. Desch, Munich 1962
  • The girls from the Tiber: stories from Rome . Desch, Munich 1957

literature

  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt, Volume 29, ZDB -ID 504305-0 . Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Percy Eckstein was born in St.-Genois-Schlössl (today: Villa Aichelburg ), Helenenstraße 19-21. In the villa, which was rented shortly before 1900, Eckstein's parents ran a salon in which u. a. Peter Altenberg , Arthur Schnitzler , Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos frequented. Schnitzler subsequently used the Ecksteinvilla and Percy Eckstein as templates for his drama Das weite Land . See Villa Aichelburg .
personal data
SURNAME Eckstein, Percy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1962
Place of death Rome