Willy Dähnhardt

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Willy Dähnhardt

Willy Dähnhardt , (* December 15, 1939 - October 18, 2010 ), was a Danish graduate librarian at the Royal Library in Copenhagen , reading room chief, translator and impresario.

Life

Dähnhardt studied at the Free University in Berlin (1964–65) and at the Munich University (1975–76). He worked as a senior researcher at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and was a qualified librarian and subject librarian at the Department of Germanic Philology and English, also at the Royal Library.

He translated operas as well as specialist literature and fiction . The text Masquerade by Carl Nielsen is one of his numerous translations of libretti . Since 2008 Dähnhardt was the main person behind a series of monthly in Reading Room West held causeries : I dialog med forfatteren (In dialogue with the author), which are held by researchers of the research reading room. The music was very close to him, in 2010 he became an honorary member of the Danish Sangselskab .

Together with the editor Birgit S. Nielsen, Dähnhardt wrote the book Exil in Denmark and thus made a significant contribution to understanding the horror and consequences of National Socialism for a number of cultural personalities who have shaped Danish cultural history and identity.

Publications

  • Willy Dähnhardt and Birgit S. Nielsen: På flugt fra nazismen , Reitzels Forlag, 1986
  • Willy Dähnhardt and Birgit S. Nielsen: Exile in Denmark , Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, 1987
  • Willy Dähnhardt and Birgit S. Nielsen: Fled under the Danish thatched roof , Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, 1988

Translations

  • Slawomir Mrozek, Ambassadøren , by Janina Katz and Willy Dähnhardt, 1982
  • Tadeusz Konwicki: Den lille apokalypse , by Janina Katz and Willy Dähnhardt, Brøndums Forlag, 1984
  • Chère Madame, 6 letters to Brno, Jean Genet , ed. by Friedrich Flemming, translation into German and notes: Willy Dähnhardt, Gifkendorf, Merlin, 1988
  • Carl Nielsen: Saul and David , opera in four acts, text by Einar Christiansen, translated into German. by Willy Dähnhardt, Salzburg Festival, 2000

swell

  • P. 623, Willy Dähnhardt and Birgit S. Nielsen: På flugt fra nazismen , Reitzels Forlag, 1986
  • P. 9, Thomas Bredsdorff and Mette Winge: Portræt: Den grå guldgrube , Politiken, December 14, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice ( Danish ) Berlingske Tidende . October 22, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Dähnhardt, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1939
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2010