Welta Ehlert

Welta Ehlert (born August 20, 1929 in Apriķi, Latvia ) is a Latvian-German translator .

Life

Welta Ehlert fled to Germany in the autumn of 1944 when Latvia was occupied by the Red Army . From 1945 to 1949 she attended secondary school in Grevesmühlen , from 1949 to 1954 she studied Slavic Studies in Rostock and Berlin . She then worked as a publishing editor at the Volk und Welt publishing house in Berlin until 1978 . Since 1978 she has worked as a freelance literary translator from Latvian and Russian and as an editor of Latvian literature.

Welta Ehlert lived in Hammer ad Uecker in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until 2006 .

Translations (selection)

• The dragon castle , fairy tale, 1962
• Visvaldis Lams: What Remains of Life , Roman, 1978
• Arkadi and Boris Strugazki : Billions of Years Before the End of the World , Novel, 1980 (from Russian)
• Regīna Ezera : The fountain , novel. Construction Publishing House , Berlin 1986

Editions (selection)

• Under the wing of a bird. Latvian stories from 9 centuries . Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1978.
• Got five chests full of songs. Latvian Dainas . Rütten & Loening , Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-352-00058-1

literature

• Support group literature Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Hrsg.): Writers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . Federchen Verlag , Neubrandenburg 1994, ISBN 3-910170-19-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Welta Ehlert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Welta Ehlert in the state bibliography MV

Footnotes

1. ↑ completely incomplete, the vast majority of her works are not assigned to her