Stefan Weidner

This article deals with the journalist and translator Stefan Weidner. For the bass player of the band Böhse Onkelz see Stephan Weidner .

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Stefan Weidner (* 1967 in Cologne ) is a German scholar of Islam , writer and translator .

Life

Stefan Weidner traveled to North Africa as a schoolboy and made his first experiences with Islam there. He later studied Islamic studies, German literature and philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen , Damascus , Berkeley and Bonn . He works as an author , translator , literary critic . From 2001 until the last issue in 2016 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Fikrun wa Fann , which was published by the Goethe-Institut and wanted to contribute to the dialogue between Western and Islamic cultures. He has translated numerous poets from Arabic, including Adonis and Mahmud Darwish . Weidner has been a founding member of the Academy of the Arts in Cologne since October 2012 .

Weidner is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the writers' association PEN Center Germany . He is an author on Qantara.de and Zeit Online .

His 400-page non-fiction book 1001 Book: The Literatures of the Orient , published in 2019 by Edition Converso, was described as an expert “walk through the centuries of the literatures of the Orient”.

Stefan Weidner lives and works in Cologne.

Fonts

author

• Exquisite Orient. A guide through the literatures of the Islamic world. Edition Elene, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85266-239-7 (literary reviews ).
• Mohammedan temptations. A narrated essay. Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 9783250600749 , 237 pages
• "... and we long for a new God ..." Poetry and religion in the work of Adonis. Verlag Schiler, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89930-116-1 .
• Allah means God. A journey through Islam. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 2006 ISBN 3-596-85212-9 (non-fiction book for young people)
• Fes. Seven circles . Amann Verlag, Zurich 2006 ISBN 3-250-60095-4 .
• Manual for the clash of civilizations. Why Islam is a challenge. An attempt . Verlag der Welteligionen, Frankfurt 2008 ISBN 978-3-458-71012-7
• Mohammedan temptations. A narrated essay . New edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-45982-9
• Departure into reason. Islam debates and the Islamic world between 9/11 and the Arab revolutions . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2011 ISBN 978-3-8012-0417-4
• The Orient of Feeling needs a new objectivity . Essay, FAZ , January 14, 2013, p. 30
• Anti-Pegida: A Polemic . Create Space Independent Publishing, 2015 ISBN 9781507883037
• Escape helper poetry. Friedrich Rückert and the Orient . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1986-8
• Beyond the West: For a new cosmopolitan way of thinking. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3446258495 .
• 1001 book: Die Literaturen des Orients , Verlag Edition Converso, Bad Herrenalb 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819-7633-5 .

editor

• The color of the distance. Modern Arabic poetry. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 9783406458606 , 296 pages
• Coffee smell and burning smell. Beirut tells. A reader. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 9783518398661 , 314 pages
• Adonis : word song. From poetry to revolution. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012 ISBN 978-3-10-000630-1 ,

translator

• Ibn Arabi : The Translator of Desires. Love poems from the Arab Middle Ages. Jung and Jung, Munich 2016 ISBN 978-3-99027-082-0

Awards

• 2006 Clemens Brentano Prize from the City of Heidelberg
• 2007 Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation
• 2008 HC Artmann scholarship
• 2011 Thomas Kling Poetics Lecturer at the University of Bonn
• 2014 Paul Scheerbart Prize for the Adonis translation
• 2017 member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
• 2018 First prize of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding for his translations of Ibn Arabis "Translator of Desires"

See also

• Koran translation , with Weidner's version of Sura 97

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Weidner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Stefan Weidner at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Stefan Weidner at perlentaucher.de
• On the award of the Scheerbart Prize, laudation by Hans-Jürgen Balmes, in the report by Sabine Baumann Awarding of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize to St. W., Paul Berf and Bettina Abarbanell , Frankfurt, October 10, 2014; zu Weidner, the chapters: As if enclosed by a crystal and e-book as architecture made of glass. In Translate , 1, 2015, pp. 5f.
• Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse from January 20, 2019: Liberalism. Our freedom seen from the outside
• Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse on July 7, 2019: New anti-Semitism - findings, analysis, understanding (4/6): Arab anti-Semitism in the global field of tension
• WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) May 1, 2020: Stefan Weidner: Arabic translator and different thinker

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kulturradio: Beyond the West - The conversation with Stefan Weidner. March 25, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 . 
2. ^ Stefan Weidner - Authors - Hanser Literaturverlage. Retrieved April 30, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Homepage Academy of the Arts of the World Cologne ( memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on December 30, 2012
4. ↑ Stefan Weidner`s article on Qantara.de
5. ↑ Search . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on April 30, 2018]).
6. ^ Book of the week: Stefan Weidner - 1001 book. The Literatures of the Orient , SWR2 from November 19, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019
7. ↑ Lewis Gropp: Meandering Reflections . Qantara.de 2006 (review)
8. ^ Stefan Weidner: Beyond the West. Hanser Literaturverlage, accessed on April 26, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Kunststiftung NRW sets up Thomas Kling poetics lectureship at the University of Bonn. Kunststiftung NRW, accessed on April 4, 2015 . 
10. ^ Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding. Retrieved December 24, 2018 .