Rolf-Dietrich Keil

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Rolf-Dietrich Keil, 2018

Rolf-Dietrich Keil (born January 8, 1923 in Berlin ; † December 17, 2018 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German Slavist , translator and author .

Life

From 1945 to 1950, Keil was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union . Back home, he completed a degree in Slavic Studies in Bonn. In 1954, Keil was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1955 he accompanied Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as an interpreter on his trip to Moscow. From 1955 to 1962 he was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg , from 1962 to 1974 he was head of the Eastern teaching department of the Bundeswehr language school . From 1974 to 1988 he was a professor at the University of Bonn .

Keil was co-founder and from 1987 to 2003 chairman of the German Pushkin Society. Until his death he was its honorary chairman.

Translations

Transcriptions from Russian
Yevgeny Onegin. Novel in verse. Slightly revised German text. Munich: Piper 1987. ISBN 3-492-10690-0 , ISBN 3-492-10690-0
Yevgeny Onegin . With a foreword and explanations. Frankfurt a. M .: Insel-Verl. 1999. (Insel Taschenbuch. 2524.) ISBN 3-458-34224-9
In addition to the German text, it contains the “Conversation between the publisher and the poet”.
The Brazen Rider (without Russian text). With illustrations by Alexander Benua . Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1999. ( Insel-Bücherei . 1195.) ISBN 3-458-19195-X
Transfer from English
Transfer from Persian

Fonts

  • The classification of Russian verbs. An old problem and a new solution. Heidelberg: Groos 1979. ISBN 3-87276-204-4
  • Nikolai Gogol. Represented with testimonials and photo documents. Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt 1985. ISBN 3-499-50342-5
  • With Adenauer in Moscow. Memories of an interpreter. Bonn: Bouvier 1997. ISBN 3-416-02671-3
  • Pushkin: A poet's life. Biography . Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1999. ISBN 3-458-16957-1
  • Puškin and Gogolʹ studies. Building blocks for Slavic philology and cultural history. Cologne Weimar Vienna: Böhlau 2011. ISBN 978-3-412-20565-2
Most of the posts in German, three in Russian, one in French.
  • Poetic works. Volume 1. Würzburg: Osthoff 2017. ISBN 978-3-935998-23-9 , ISBN for the complete edition 978-3-935998-25-3

Editorial activities

  • Alexander Pushkin: The Poems. Russian and German. Translated from the Russian by Michael Engelhard. Frankfurt a. M., Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1999. ISBN 3-458-16955-5 .
Same thing without the Russian text. In it: Afterword, Notes, and Editorial Note, pp. 489–593. ISBN 3-458-16956-3
  • Alexander Pushkin: The Brazen Rider - Petersburg Stories . Different translators. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. and Leipzig 2003. (Insel Taschenbuch.) ISBN 3-458-34572-8 .
  • Alexander Pushkin: The captain's daughter . Translated from the Russian by Peter Urban . Hamburg: Dressler 2003. ISBN 3-7915-3602-8
  • Alexander Pushkin: love poems . Different translators. Frankfurt a. M. and Leipzig: Insel Verlag 2003. (Insel Taschenbuch. 2968.) ISBN 3-458-34668-6

Honors

  • 1983 Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
  • 2000 Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences , awarded by the Literature and Language class on June 13, 2000.
  • 2002 Awarded the state Pushkin medal "For a great contribution to the study and preservation of the cultural heritage, to the rapprochement and mutual enrichment of the cultures of the peoples of the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Germany" by Ukaz of the President of the Russian Federation Putin from 3. April 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. Retrieved December 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Keil, Rolf-Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2018
Place of death Bad Nauheim