Peter Urban (Author)

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Peter Urban (born July 16, 1941 in Berlin ; † December 9, 2013 in Weidmoos ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

At the end of the 1950s, Peter Urban attended school in Schondorf am Ammersee. A teacher, Dr. Georg Reimann , introduced him to the Russian language. Urban studied Slavic , German and history at the universities in Würzburg and Belgrade . From 1966 to 1968 he worked as a publishing editor at Suhrkamp Verlag in Frankfurt . In 1969 he was one of the founders of the publishing house of the authors . From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a dramaturge for the radio play department of the West German Broadcasting Corporation . He then worked as managing director and editor in the publishing house of the authors. From 1989 onwards he was a freelance translator. Until 1989 he lived in Frankfurt am Main; then in Weidmoos, a small village that belongs to the municipality of Grebenhain in the Vogelsbergkreis .

He wrote reviews and essays on authors of the Slavic languages . He also worked as an editor, but above all he was a translator. He translated the complete works of Anton Chekhov ; It was his German versions of Chekhov's dramas that made this central figure in Russian literature accessible to the German-speaking audience. He has also translated a large number of other authors from Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Czech.

Urban received the following awards: 1974 the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , 1980 the Helmut M Braem Prize , 1984 the Hessian Culture Prize , 2000 the recognition prize for the Leipzig Book Prize , 2003 the City of Münster Prize for European poetry , 2003 the Jane Scatcherd Prize from the Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Foundation and in 2008 the Ivan Turgenev Prize from the Boris Yeltsin Foundation. In 1998 the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Regensburg awarded him the title of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy.

Urban was a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts and the German Academy for Language and Poetry . His estate was donated to the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Exhibition about Urban

Works

  • Čechov Chronicle , Zurich 1981
  • Isaak Babel's "Reiterarmee" , Berlin 1995
  • Accuracy and brevity. Views on Russian literature , Eds. Daniel Keel , Winfried Stephan. Nachw. Norbert Wehr . Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-257-06512-1

Editing

  • Raspberries are raspberries, I say , Regensburg 1971
  • Pjotr ​​Kropotkin : Ideals and Reality in Russian Literature , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • Anton Chekhov : The narrative work in ten volumes , Zurich
  • Anton Chekhov: Briefe , Zurich 1979, in 5 volumes: 1877–1889, 1889–1892, 1892–1897, 1897–1901, 1901–1904.
  • Anton Chekhov: All one-act plays . Zurich 1980
  • Anton Chekhov: The seagull . Zurich 1973
  • Anton Chekhov: Thinking with Čechov . Zurich 1983
  • Anton Chekhov: Diaries. Notebooks . Zurich 1983
  • Anton Chekhov: The Čechov Reading Book . Zurich 1985
  • Velimir Khlebnikov : Works . Reinbek 1985
  • Anton Čechov , Zurich 1987
  • About Čechov , Zurich 1988
  • The book from the publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Gustave Flaubert : Correspondence , Berlin 1989 (with Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenjew )
  • Mistake of Death , Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Anton Chekhov: Freedom from violence and lies , Zurich 1992
  • Gogol's Petersburg Years , Berlin 2003
  • Ivan Bunin : Čechov , 2004
  • Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev: Dear Sir! Berlin 2005

Translations

  • Isaak Babel : The Cavalry Army , Berlin 1994
  • Isaak Babel: Diary 1920 , Berlin 1990
  • Matija Bećković : Che , Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • Augusto Boal : With the fist into the open knife , Frankfurt am Main 1981 (translated together with Henry Thorau)
  • Joseph Brodsky : Marmor , Munich 1988
  • Miodrag Bulatović : Godot has come , Munich 1966
  • Daniil Charms : All cases , Zurich 1995
  • Daniil Charms: Letters from Petersburg , Berlin 1988
  • Daniil Charms: First and second , Wuppertal 2006
  • Daniil Charms: Cases , Frankfurt am Main 1970
  • Daniil Charms: Falls , Berlin 2002
  • Daniil Charms: Fallen , Zurich 1992
  • Daniil Charms: The Golden Hearts , Berlin 1996
  • Daniil Charms: Stories from Himmelkumov and other personalities , Berlin 1983
  • Daniil Charms: Art is a closet , Berlin 1992
  • Daniil Charms: Theater! Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Daniil Charms: Archimedes' tub , Vienna 2006
  • Daniil Charms: Zirkus Šardam , Berlin 2002
  • Bora Ćosić : How our pianos were repaired , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Brana Crnčević : State examination , Frankfurt am Main 1966
  • Miloš Crnjanski : Ithaka and Commentaries , Berlin 2011
  • Miloš Crnjanski: Comments on Ithaka , Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • Michail Djomin : The Tattooed , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1975
  • Leonid Dobytschin : Evdokija , Berlin 2008
  • Leonid Dobytschin: Im Gouvernement S. , Berlin 1996
  • Leonid Dobytschin: The City , Berlin 2009
  • Nikolai Gogol : Notes of a Madman , Berlin 2009
  • Nikolai Gogol: The Nose , Berlin 2003
  • Ivan Goncharov : Nymphodora Ivanovna , Berlin 2000
  • Ivan Gontscharow: The severe hardship , Berlin 1991
  • Gennadi Gor : Blockade , Vienna 2007
  • Gennadi Gor: Das Ohr , Berlin 2007
  • Maxim Gorki : The wrong coin , Frankfurt am Main 1971
  • Reed Gračev : Tomatoes , Berlin 2014
  • Alexander Gribojedow : Woe to the mind , Berlin 2004
  • Jelena Guro : Songs of the City , Berlin 2003
  • Josef Jedlička : On the way , Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • Wenedikt Erofejew : Moscow - Petuški , Zurich 2005
  • First, second , Hamburg 1998, 2 volumes: Seals by Russian painters and drawings by Russian poets
  • Vladimir V. Kazakov : The Mistake of the Living , Munich 1973
  • Vladimir V. Kazakov: My encounters with Vladimir Kazakov , Munich 1972
  • Vladimir V. Kazakov: Don't interrupt me, I'm silent! , Munich 1990
  • Danilo Kiš : Die mechanical Löwen , Munich 2007 (translated together with Ilma Rakusa )
  • Danilo Kiš: Shoes , Berlin 1997
  • Mirko Kovač : My sister Elida , Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • Michail Lermontow : A Hero of Our Time , Berlin 2006
  • Juri Ljubimov : Dead Souls , Vienna 1986
  • Osip Ė. Mandelʹštam : Letters from Voronezh , Berlin 1985
  • Mihailo Marković : Dialectics of Practice , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Milan Nápravník : Observations of the standing runner , Frankfurt am Main 1970
  • François Nocher : Čechov Čechova , Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 1986
  • Vladimir Odojewski : Princess Mimi. Princess Zizi, Zurich 2003
  • Vladimir Odojewski: the black glove , stories. Manesse, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7175-2246-1
  • Aleksander Ostrowski : The forest , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Miodrag Pavlović : The Bay of Aphrodite , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Miodrag Pavlović: Cosmologia profanata , Vienna 2003
  • Miodrag Pavlović: Moving into Cremona , Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Miodrag Pavlović: Miodrag Pavlović , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Miodrag Pavlović: Discrepancies, old and new , Leipzig 2011
  • Miodrag Pavlović: Paradiesische Sprüche , Vienna 2007
  • Miodrag Pavlović: The so-called dead , Vienna 2013
  • Miodrag Pavlović: Usurpers of Heaven , Berlin 2001
  • Dmitri Prigow : Poet without personality , Berlin 1991
  • Aleksander Pushkin : The lonely house on Basilius Island , Berlin 1987
  • Aleksander Pushkin: The Stories , Berlin 1999
  • Aleksander Pushkin: The history of the village Gorjuchino , Berlin 1989
  • Aleksander Pushkin: The trip to Arzrum during the campaign in 1829 , Berlin 1998
  • Aleksander Pushkin: The Novels , Berlin 1999
  • Dušan Radović : How the whale became a pet , Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • Russian painting 1890–1917 , Munich 1977 (translated together with Thomas von Dellingshausen)
  • Tomaž Šalamun : But these are exceptions , Vienna 2004
  • Tomaž Šalamun: A stalk of parsley in a tuxedo , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Tomaž Šalamun: Four questions of melancholy , Vienna 2003
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin : I'm afraid ... , Berlin 2011
  • Leonid Šejka : Alchemie , Hamburg 1997
  • Wladimir Sorokin : Dysmorphomania , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Wladimir Sorokin: One month in Dachau , Zurich 1992
  • Wladimir Sorokin: The Snake , Zurich 1990
  • Lev Tolstoy : Speech against the war , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Anton Chekhov : On the Grosse Strasse , Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Anton Chekhov: Fear , Berlin 1996
  • Anton Chekhov: From the memories of an idealist , Zurich 2001
  • Anton Chekhov: The Drama on the Hunt , Zurich 1985
  • Anton Chekhov: Three Little Novels , Berlin 1997
  • Anton Chekhov: Three Sisters , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Anton Chekhov: In Moscow , Berlin 1995
  • Anton Chekhov: Ivanov , Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • Anton Chekhov: Kashtanka and other children's stories , Zurich 2004
  • Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard , Zurich 1973
  • Anton Chekhov: Life in questions and exclamations , Zurich 2001
  • Anton Chekhov: Die Möve , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanja , Frankfurt am Main 1970
  • Anton Chekhov: Platonov , Zurich 1974
  • Anton Chekhov: About Theater , Frankfurt am Main 2004
  • Anton Chekhov: An Unnecessary Victory , Zurich 2000 (translated together with Beate Rausch)
  • Anton Chekhov: Der Waldschrat , Frankfurt am Main 1971
  • Anton Chekhov: How should one live? Zurich 1997
  • Ivan Turgenew: Notes of a Hunter , Zurich 2004
  • Ivan Turgenew: Gnadenbrot , Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Ivan Turgenew: Hamlet and Don Quixote , Berlin 1991
  • Ivan Turgenew: Last Love , Berlin 2001
  • Ivan Turgenew: A month in the country , Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Ivan Turgenew: Puzzle Games , Berlin 2001
  • Predrag Vranicki : Man and History , Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • Konstantin Waginow : The Star of Bethlehem , Berlin 1992
  • Richard Weiner : Der Bader , Berlin 1991
  • Richard Weiner: The Empty Chair , Berlin 1990
  • Ivan Wernisch : Selected writings , Berlin 1994
  • Alexander Wwedenski : A certain number of conversations or The completely revised book of hours and two poems , Berlin 1987
  • Alexander Wwedenski: Kuprijanov and Nataša , Berlin 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach: Estate of Peter Urban obtained from boersenblatt.net , January 24, 2017, accessed on January 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2013
Place of death Weidmoos