Ursula Keller (author)

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Ursula Keller (* 1964 in Lübeck ) is a German author and translator .

Live and act

Ursula Keller grew up in Stuttgart . Numerous research stays took her to Russia. Until 2002 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Slavic Philology at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin and now lives as a freelance author and translator in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

In recent years she has translated and edited various works on Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja and Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy , especially together with the Kiev- born author and director Natalja Sharandak , who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1992.

reception

In particular, A Marriage in Letters (2010) was received positively by literary criticism, as one could make a literary discovery here in the person of Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja . With Sofja Andreevna Tolstaya. A life by Tolstoy's side , the reviewer emphasized that both authors also knew how to fully use the eight volumes of Tolstaja's memoirs Mein Leben , which were only published in excerpts even in Russia, through their insight into the Yasnaya Polyana archive .

Her translation of Song Without Words was also praised by the critics. Der Spiegel took song without words in its series "The most important books of the week".

In 2015 her translation of the novel Eine Strasse in Moskau by Michail Ossorgin was published , which Martin Mosebach praised in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a “literary event of this autumn”.

plant

translation
as an author / editor / translator
  • Ilma Rakusa , Ursula Keller: Europe writes . Essays from 33 European countries, Edition Körber Foundation , Hamburg 2003.
  • Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak: Evenings out of this world. St. Petersburg salon ladies and artists of the Silver Age. Grambin, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-932338-18-9 .
  • Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak: Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja. A life by Tolstoy's side . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-17408-0
  • A marriage in letters . Lev Tolstoy . Sofja Tolstaya. Edited and translated from Russian by Ursula Keller and Natalja Sharandak. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-17480-6 .
  • Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak: Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja. A life by Tolstoy's side . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-35345-4 .
  • Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak: Lev Tolstoj . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-50717-5 .
  • Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak: Madame Blavatsky. A biography. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-17572-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/autoren/23232/Natalja_Sharandak.html
  2. ↑ Karla Hielscher : A life at Tolstoy's side. A biography about Sofja Andreevna Tolstaya. In: Deutschlandfunk . August 6, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ To the content in detail: Thomas Hummitzsch : Tolstojs Frau. The biography “Sofja Andreevna Tolstaya. A life by Tolstoy's side “ In: berlinerliteraturkritik.de. November 19, 2010.
  4. ↑ Katharina Teutsch : I am a nanny, a piece of furniture, a woman. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 23, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
  5. ↑ The Most Important Books of the Week, May 12, 2010 . In: Der Spiegel , May 12, 2010.
  6. ↑ Martin Mosebach: The revolutionary struggle as an incomprehensible force of nature. Tolstoy's “War and Peace” sends its regards: Michail Ossorgin's rediscovered novel “A Street in Moscow” is a literary sensation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 28, 2015, p. L2.
  7. ↑ Review on literaturkritik.de
  8. ↑ Collective review . In: Perlentaucher.de .
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck