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Tania Stern (born Constanze Kurella in 1904 in Breslau ; died April 17, 1995 in Wiltshire ) was a German-British translator.

Life

Constanze Kurella was a daughter of the psychiatrist Hans Kurella (1858-1916), one brother was the writer Alfred Kurella (1895-1975), she had two other brothers and two sisters. Kurella grew up in Dresden and lived as a young, attractive woman - Christopher Isherwood admired her beauty - in Berlin in the twenties . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, she fled to Paris, where she met the writer James Stern , they married in London in 1935 , Ernst Ludwig Freud was a best man , a friend since Constanze's youth. In Paris in 1937 they met WH Auden , with whom they were very close friends during their time in New York. In 1944 he dedicated the long poem The Sea and the Mirror "for James and Tania Stern". Aude's partner, Chester Kallman , was less valued by them. Auden stayed with Sonja Orwell for a long time at Stern's house in England in 1972 and gave them the poem Thank You, Fog , which was posthumously printed in 1974 in a volume of poetry of the same name. Both Sterns were founding members of the Auden Society.

Tania and James Stern fled Europe to the USA in 1939. In New York City she worked as a physiotherapist and ran a gymnastics school. In 1955 they returned to England. Together with James Stern, she translated from German into English writers such as Thomas Mann , Franz Kafka , Erich Maria Remarque , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Bertolt Brecht , and letters from Franz Kafka. The translation of Sigmund Freud's letters is of greater importance .

Translations (selection)

  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Selected prose . Translation Mary Hottinger, Tania Stern, James Stern. Introduction Hermann Broch . New York: Pantheon Books, 1952
  • Franz Kafka: Letters to Milena . Editor Willy Haas . Translation: Tania Stern, James Stern. New York: Shock, 1953
  • Sigmund Freund: Letters: 1873-1939 . Editor Ernst Ludwig Freud . Translation: Tania Stern, James Stern. London: Hogarth Press, 1961
  • Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle . Translation: Tania Stern, James Stern, WH Auden. London: Methuen, 1961

literature

  • Nicholas Jenkins: [Biographical Notes on James and Tania Stern], in: Auden Studies 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas Jenkins corrected his statement Berlin in Wroclaw in 1996. The first name Constanze is in James Stern's obituary.


personal data
SURNAME Stern, Tania
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurella, Constanze (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1995
Place of death Wiltshire