Wilhelm Droste (Author)
Wilhelm Droste (born March 20, 1953 in Allendorf (Sundern) ) is a German author who works in Budapest .
Life
Droste studied German, history and political science in Marburg and, after repeated visits to Hungary in the 1970s, went to Budapest with the DAAD in 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall . Since then he has been working as a German lecturer at Loránd Eötvös University . Droste is editor of the German-Hungarian magazine Három Holló / Drei Raben . He researches the literature of the fin de siècle and has translated poems by Endre Ady into German. He was the initiator of the "Café Dürer" on the university campus and of the "Café Eckermann" in the house of the Budapest Goethe Institute .
Droste writes for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Neue Pester Lloyd , he has a monthly feature on WDR . He is married to the filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi .
Fonts
- " Poetic Change of Location with Rilke and Ady ", Budapest 2014
- Endre Ady: Give me your eyes: Poems , Wuppertal: Arco, 2011 ISBN 978-3-938375-46-4
- Pécs , Wuppertal: Arco, 2010
- Gábor T. Szántó: Entangled in Guilt: Diary of a Hungarian Rabbi , From the Hungarian. by Wilhelm Droste. With an afterward by Michael Wolffsohn , Berlin: edition q, 1999 ISBN 3861245124
- Budapest. A literary portrait , Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, 1998
- Hungary , Hamburg: Ellert u. Richter, 1989
- Budapest , Hamburg: Ellert u. Richter, 1987
literature
- Viktoria Tubóly; Gyuláné Tuboly: The three ravens and the Café Eckermann: a Hungarian-minded German, Wilhelm Droste, who popularized Hungarian literature with his work abroad , Saarbrücken: VDM, 2009.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Droste in the catalog of the German National Library
- "The country intoxicated me" Interview in the TAZ, March 24, 2007
- "Literally - Wilhelm Droste" , Radio Orange 94.0 , July 17, 2017
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SURNAME | Droste, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Allendorf (Sundern) |