Tomislav Bekić

Tomislav Bekić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Томислав Бекић ; * 1935 in Novi Sad ; † January 19, 2008 ibid) was a Yugoslav or Serbian Germanist and translator.

Life

He taught from 1960, first as an assistant, then as a professor of German language and literature, at the University of Novi Sad . In 2002 he retired. He translated numerous books from German into Serbo-Croatian .

Works (selection)

Monographs

• Tomas Man u našoj književnoj kritici ( Thomas Mann in our literary criticism), 1987 ( ISBN 86-363-0022-3 )
• Srpsko građansko pesništo (Serbian bourgeois poetry), 1988
• Germanoslavica: Prilozi proučavanju uzajamnih kulturnih i književnih veza između naše i nemačke kulture (Germanoslavica: Contributions to the study of mutual cultural and literary relationships between our and German culture), 2001

German-language book and magazine articles

• German studies in Serbia. In: German Studies in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-1992 , ed. v. Christoph König , 1995 ( ISBN 3-11-014419-0 ), pp. 222-230
• several articles in: Christoph König (Ed.), with the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .
• Alois Schmaus as a Germanist. In: Germano-Slavic contributions. Festschrift for Peter Rehder on the occasion of his 65th birthday , ed. v. Miloš Okuka , 2004 ( ISBN 3-87690-874-4 )

Translations from German into Serbo-Croatian

• Siegfried Kapper , South Slavic migrations in summer 1850 , 1851 = Krstarenje po jugoslovenskim krajevima , 2005 ( ISBN 86-85869-04-8 )
• Gustav Rasch , From the Black Mountains. Montenegrin sketches, pictures and stories , ca.1875 = Crna Gora u pričama , 2001 ( ISBN 86-495-0202-4 )
• Johann Heinrich Schwicker , Political History of the Serbs in Hungary , 1880 = Politička istorija Srba u Ugarskoj , 1998
• Catharina Sturzenegger , Serbia in the European War 1914/1915 , 1915 = Srbija u evropskom ratu 1914-1915 , 2008 ( ISBN 978-86-86611-15-4 )
• Gerhard Gesemann , Studies on the South Slavic Volksepik , 1926 = Studije o južnoslovenskoj narodnoj epici , 2002 ( ISBN 86-17-09804-X )
• Joseph Roth , Radetzkymarsch , 1932 = Radecki-marš , 1991 ( ISBN 86-19-01906-6 )
• Alfred Adler , The Meaning of Life , 1933 = Smisao života , 1984, 2nd edition 1989 ( ISBN 86-363-0133-5 )
• Thomas Mann , Joseph and his brothers , 1933–1943 = Josif i njegova braća , 1990–
• Albin Lesky , The Greek Tragedy , 1938 = Grčka tragedija , 1995 ( ISBN 86-7047-189-2 )
• Manès Sperber , Like a tear in the ocean , 1949/1961 = Kao suza u okeanu , 1997 ( ISBN 86-363-0438-5 )
• Maximilian Braun , The Serbo-Croatian Hero Song , 1961 = Srpskohrvatska junačka pesma , 2004 ( ISBN 86-17-10566-6 )
• Hans Mayer , Goethe, an attempt at success , 1973 = Gete, ogled o uspehu , 2000 ( ISBN 86-7047-362-4 )
• Katia Mann , My Unwritten Memoirs , 1974 = Moji nepisani memoari , 1976
• Milo Dor , All my brothers , 1978 = Sva moja braća , 1996 ( ISBN 86-363-0306-0 )
• Alice Miller , The Drama of the Gifted Child , 1979 = Drama darovitog deteta , 2001
• Manfred Frank , Conditio moderna , 1993 = Conditio moderna , 1995 ( ISBN 86-7047-219-8 )
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler , Nationalism. History, Forms, Consequences , 2001 = Nacionalizam. istorija, forme, posledice , 2002 ( ISBN 86-7047-410-7 )
• Holm Sundhaussen , History of Serbia. 19th - 21st century , 2007 = Istorija Srbije. Od 19. do 21. veka , 2008 ( ISBN 978-86-7102-320-7 )

literature

• Gabriella Schubert , In memory of Tomislav Bekić. In: Journal for Balkanology , vol. 45.2009, p. 155

Web links

• Literature by and about Tomislav Bekić in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short résumé on traduki.eu (in German)
• Article from the Dnevnik from June 13, 2004 on knjizara.com (Serbo-Croatian)