Walter Maria Guggenheimer

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Walter Maria Guggenheimer (born January 8, 1903 in Munich , † June 16, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German journalist , literary critic and translator . He also gained greater fame as a radio commentator .

Life

Guggenheimer studied German and economics at the universities of Berlin and Munich, which he completed with a doctorate, and was a working student . Persecuted during the Third Reich , a German industrial company spelled the rescue of Tehran for Guggenheimers . From 1941 he was with the Forces Francaises Libres de Gaulles in the fight against his home country in France, Italy, North Africa and the Middle East . Back in Germany, he worked as a publishing editor and theater critic, for magazines such as Der Ruf .

Theater critic

Guggenheimer saw theater criticism as part of literary criticism and as a task that, taken seriously, could improve contemporary theater; however, he also perceived their limits realistically: “(...) should I go to the performance or not? Yes, how should the critic the know (...)? It's hard enough to judge a performance; But now every possible visitor? ”Guggenheimer gained particular fame through his work as an editor for the Frankfurter Hefte and his numerous comments in the cultural programs of radio and television .

translator

Guggenheimer also worked as a translator from French. His translations of the works of Christiane Rochefort , especially Children of Our Time , and his numerous " Marguerite Duras " translations , achieved particular fame . He also translated plays by foreign-language authors for S. Fischer-Verlag.

Varia

In 1955, Arno Schmidt erected a small literary memorial to the radio commentator in a seascape with Pocahontas :

“Then 'Comment of the Week', Doctor Walter Maria Guggenheimer, and I nodded approvingly: clear head! And a real refreshment for all the other Jesuit students. "

- Schmidt : Seascape with Pocahontas

Publications

  • All theater. Selected reviews 1947-1965. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • More free time, more money - more freedom. In: Marianne Feuersenger (Ed.): Is there still a proletariat? Documentation of a series of broadcasts by Bayerischer Rundfunk . Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1962, pp. 55–66.

Translations (selection)

  • Marguerite Duras: The little horse from Tarquinia. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • Marguerite Duras: The Vice-Consul. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1962.
  • Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima mon amour. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arno Schmidt: Seascape with Pocahontas . Stuttgart 1988 (Cotta's Library of Modernity 75), p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Guggenheimer, Walter Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, literary critic and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1967
Place of death Frankfurt am Main