Soror Mariana Alcoforado

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Soror Mariana Alcoforado (born April 22, 1640 in Beja , Alentejo ; † July 28, 1723 there ) was a Portuguese nun and writer .

Mariana Alcoforado, drawing by Modigliani

The five most beautiful love letters in the world are attributed to Alcoforado, the Portuguese letters . Karl Larsen's Danish version was translated into German by Mathilde Mann (Leipzig, 1905). Rainer Maria Rilke's translation was published in Leipzig in 1913, and the love letters were also translated by Georg Hecht in the same year. Another translation was done by Walter Widmer (Basel, 1945).

The letters are said to have been addressed to the French officer Marquis Noël Bouton de Chamilly (1636–1715, 1703 Marshal of France ). Since there is no Portuguese version of these letters, it is assumed that the letters originated from the alleged translator into French, Gabriel de Guilleragues . They first appeared in 1669 as Lettres portugaises.

The film Love Letters from a Portuguese Nun (1977) was based on the literary model . The Franco-Portuguese cinema production La Religieuse Portuguaise (2009) is also inspired by the story of the Portuguese nun.

expenditure

  • Lettres portugaises et Suites. Introduction, établissement des textes et notes par Anne-Marie Clin-Lalande. Librairie Générale Française, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-253-06318-5 .
  • Portuguese letters. The letters of Marianna Alcoforado. Transferred by Rainer Maria Rilke. 15th edition. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-458-8074-0 .
  • The five Portuguese letters from the nun Mariana Alcoforado. Translated in its entirety into German and edited by Georg Hecht. Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig, 1913

literature

  • Charlotte Frei: Translation as Fiction. The reception of the 'Lettres Portugaises' by Rainer Maria Rilke. Peter Lang, Bern a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-03910-110-2 .
  • Ursula Geitner: Allography. Authorship and paratext - in the case of the Portuguese letters. In: Paratexts in literature, film, television. Edited by Klaus Kreimeier , Georg Stanitzek . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-003762-8 , pp. 55–99.

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personal data
SURNAME Alcoforado, Soror Mariana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese nun and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Beja , Alentejo
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1723
Place of death Beja , Alentejo