Richard Dove (lyric poet)

Richard Dove (born August 26, 1954 in Bath , England ) is a German-speaking writer of British origin.

life and work

After leaving school, Richard Dove studied German and Romance languages at Oxford , which he completed with a doctorate on August von Platen . He then worked as a lecturer in Exeter , Regensburg and Wales . In the beginning he wrote English poetry. Since moving to Munich in 1987, he has primarily written poems in German, which have been published in individual titles as well as in anthologies, literary magazines and newspapers.

Dove also writes articles and reviews and translates poems by German-language poets such as Ernst Meister , Friederike Mayröcker and Reiner Kunze into English.

With the anthologies translated into German by numerous well-known authors such as Alfred Andersch , Erich Fried and Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Indivisible. Poems from six decades as well as conversation with the muse of old age , Dove played a decisive role in the wide-ranging reception of Michael Hamburger's poems in the German-speaking world.

Richard Dove is married and has two daughters. He lives in Munich and teaches there as a lecturer at the foreign language institute of the state capital Munich .

Single track

• The two seasons (2016).
• Tram, Hiroshima (2011).
• Syrian Skyline (2009).
• On the River of Fragrances (2008).
• From a previous life . English German. Translated from the English by Ulrike Draesner , Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Gerhard Falkner , Michael Krüger , Reiner Kunze, Friederike Mayröcker, Heinz Piontek , Joachim Sartorius , Ludwig Steinherr , Jürgen Theobaldy , Paul Wühr u. a. (2003).
• Color stain on a Mondrian picture (2002).

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Theo Breuer and Traian Pop (eds.): Matrix 28 . Breathing alphabet for Friederike Mayröcker . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012.
• Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze . German-language poetry of the present. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008–2010.
• Shafiq Naz (Ed.): The German Poetry Calendar 2010 . Alhambra Publishing, Bertem 2009.
• Theo Breuer (Ed.): In Another Blue. Autographs by German poets in memoriam Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling . Artist book. edition bauwagen, Itzehoe 2005.
• Joachim Sartorius (Ed.): News from the poetry . CD. Random House Audio, Munich 2005.
• Literature magazines : Akzente , Das Gedicht , Litfaß , ndl .

Transmission (selection)

• Ludwig Steinherr: Before the Invention of Paradise (2010).
• Reiner Kunze: Rich Catch in the Empty Cree l (2010).
• Friederike Mayröcker: Raving Language (2007).
• Joachim Sartorius: Ice Memory (2006).
• Michael Krüger: At Night, Beneath Trees (1998).
• Ernst Meister: Not Orpheus. Selected Poems (1996).
• Michael Krüger: Diderot's Cat (1993).

Publication (selection)

• Michael Hamburger: Indivisible. Poems from six decades. Translated from English by Cyrus Atabay , Michael Donhauser , Michael Krüger, Adolf Muschg , Peter Waterhouse and others. v. a. (1997).
• Michael Hamburger: Conversation with the muse of old age. Translated from English by Richard Anders , Werner Dürrson , Walter Helmut Fritz , Raoul Schrott , Franz Wurm and others. v. a. (2004).
• Friedrich Rückert : Now at the end of time. Unpublished poems (1988).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Dove: The Individuality of August von Platen. Subjectivity and Solipsism at the End of the Art Period, Frankfurt / M .: Lang 1983.
2. ↑ Poems were u. a. published in the time and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
3. ↑ Articles and reviews were a. published in: Bertelsmann Lexicon German Authors (ed. by Walter Killy), Das Gedicht , German Life and Letters (Oxford), Literaturkritik.de , Modern Language Review ( Cambridge ), Modern Languages ​​in Translation ( London ), Orbis Litterarum ( Odense ) .
4. ↑ Green Integer Review N ° 4 (2006). [1]
5. ↑ Green Integer Review N ° 6 (2006). [2]

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Dove in the catalog of the German National Library
• Richard Dove in the satt.org series Lyrik.Log
• Pearl Divers : From a Past Life