Rolf Klemmt

Rolf Michael Klemmt (* 1938 in Leipzig ) is a German Germanist, author and literary translator from Finnish. He has lived in Finland since 1964 and is a professor emeritus at Jyväskylä University, where he was most recently director of the German Institute.

biography

Rolf Klemmt was born in Leipzig in 1938, where he graduated from high school in 1956. After he had worked as a construction assistant for a year, he moved to the FRG, had to catch up on the 'West Abitur' in Frankfurt (Main) before studying German , philosophy and art history in Freiburg and Heidelberg with a doctorate in 1964. Klemmt emigrated soon afterwards Finland , which became his adopted home. Initially he was employed “as a lecturer for German language and culture at the University of Jyväskylä”. After an interlude from 1969–74 as head of the Jyväskylä branch of the Goethe Institute in Munich, he returned to the Jyväskylä University and remained there until his retirement , most recently as director of the German Institute. After retiring, Klemmt has been working as a freelance translator since 2002.

Works (selection)

author

• Suomi-saksa-suomi , Jyväskylä 2012
• Saksan peruskielioppi , Jyväskyla 2009
• Suomi-saksa-suomi-sanakirja , Jyväskylä 2008
• Suomi-saksa-suomi-taskusanakirja , Jyväskylä 1993
• A Middle High German gospel synopsis of the Passion of Christ , Heidelberg 1964 (dissertation, 1994 as microfiches)

translator

• Olavi Paavolainen : Guest in the Third Reich 1936: Rhapsodie , Hamburg 2016
• Anssi Halmesvirta (ed.): Land under the Northern Lights: a cultural history of Finland , Darmstadt 2013
• Pekka Kivikäs: Prehistoric rock painting in Finland , Jyväskyla 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Klemmt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Rolf Klemmt in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Author presentation at Acabus-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ acabus-verlag.de/autoren: Klemmt, Rolf