Walter Schmiele

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Walter Schmiele (1909–1998), German writer and translator

Walter Schmiele (born April 12, 1909 in Swinoujscie ; † October 21, 1998 in Darmstadt ) was a German freelance writer and translator .

Life

Schmiele grew up in Frankfurt am Main , studied German , philosophy and history there as well as in Heidelberg , Vienna and Rostock , followed by a dissertation on Theodor Storm in Frankfurt am Main . His teachers included Friedrich Gundolf , Karl Jaspers , Paul Tillich , Karl Mannheim and Ernst Kantorowicz . From a very young age he worked as a freelancer for various newspapers and as a permanent employee of the Frankfurter Zeitung until it was banned in 1943. He had lived in Darmstadt since 1940.

After the war, Walter Schmiele worked as a critic and freelance journalist for a number of broadcasters and newspapers, appeared as a poet out (several poetry prizes, represented in several anthologies) as well as narrator (representing, for example, in the Reclam - Anthology German narrator of the presence , edited by Willi Richard Fehse , 1960). Schmiele published numerous large essays and emerged as a translator of poetry and prose from English ; his translation of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey , which he provided with a detailed afterword, has been reprinted many times (for the first time in Parzeller in 1947, in 1962 in Goverts, in DTV 1965, 1982 in Medusa in Vienna and in 2009 in Island).

In the 1950s, Walter Schmiele initiated the series Vom Geist der Zeit for Hessischer Rundfunk , for which he wrote numerous articles himself. 1951 to 1953 he was editor of the New Literary World . From 1956 to 1962 he was Secretary General of the PEN Center Germany and in 1959 organized the international PEN Congress. His monograph on Henry Miller (rororo), published in 1961, has had numerous editions to this day and has been translated into many languages, including French , Japanese and Dutch . In 1990 Schmiele published a collection of “Edschmid texts” in the series Darmstädter Schriften ( Kasimir Edschmid , essay - speech - feature section ), which he provided with an afterword.

Works

  • 1946: Unforgettable face. Five pieces of prose
  • 1949: English poetry in German.
  • 1953: English spirit world
  • 1954: Scandinavian spirit world
  • 1954: Poet on poetry
  • 1961: Stefan George
  • 1961: Henry Miller in personal reports and photo documents . Rowohlt's monographs. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Rerinbek near Hamburg 1961.
  • 1963: The she-wolf's milk
  • 1963: Nietzsche : The good European
  • 1963: About Ernst Jünger
  • 1963: About Karl Jaspers
  • 1963: dandy and provocateur
  • 1963: Two essays on the literary situation
  • 1964: Attempt to define the meaning of modern irrationalism
  • 1966: On the history of utopia
  • 1984: Poetry of the World, North America
  • 1985: Poetry of the World, England
  • 1990: Kasimir Edschmid , essay - speech - features section
  • 2010: With a few lines. Portraits and glosses

Translations

Awards

  • Poetry Prize of the Südverlag in 1949
  • Johann Heinrich Merck Award of the City of Darmstadt 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Walter Schmiele's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ "Twentieth-Century German Verse. Introduced and edited by Patrick Bridgwater", Penguin Books, England, Harmondsworth, 1963. "Deutsche Lyrik der Gegenwart. An Anthology". Edited by Willi Richard Fehse, Reclam (Stuttgart) 1960.
  3. ↑ See Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, ed. by the Historical Association for Hesse on behalf of the City Council of Darmstadt. Editing: Roland Dotzert, Peter Engels, Anke Leonhardt, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Schmiele, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie , Pomerania Province , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1998
Place of death Darmstadt , Hessen , Germany