Wolfgang Eschker

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Wolfgang Eschker (born June 26, 1941 in Stendal ) is a German Slavist , writer and translator .

Life

Wolfgang Eschker studied Slavic Studies and Folklore at the universities in Göttingen , Vienna , Belgrade and Sarajevo . In 1971 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on a topic on Bosnian literature . He then worked in various functions for the Goethe Institute , including a. as a lecturer in Göttingen and as head of the Goethe Institutes in Nancy and Zagreb . After stays in Bad Harzburg and Göttingen, Eschker now lives in Bovenden in Lower Saxony .

Wolfgang Eschker is the author of short prose , aphorisms and poems . He also works as an editor and translates from Serbo-Croatian , Slovenian , Macedonian , Bulgarian and Russian into German .

Wolfgang Eschker is a member of the German PEN center and since 1989 of Matica srpska in Novi Sad . In addition to various scholarships , he received the Nicolaus Copernicus Prize of the city of Gelsenkirchen in 1973 and the order " Croatian Morning Star with the Face of Marko Marulić " in 2003 .

Works

  • Investigations into improvisation and transmission of the Sevdalinka using the linguistic figures , Munich 1971.
  • Furry Cold Night , Stuttgart 1976.
  • Poison and Antidote , Stuttgart 1977.
  • Dowry with poison , Munich 1995.
  • Death in Trieste , Blieskastel 1999.
  • The headwind lark , Blieskastel 2000.
  • Hours, days, without time , Blieskastel 2003.
  • Pictures from south-southeast , Bergen 2005.
  • Pictures from the Alte Mark , Merzig 2008.
  • Lightning and lightning rods , aphorisms. Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-86660-209-0 .

Editing

  • Jacob Grimm and Vuk Karadžić , Kassel 1988
  • Gustav von Haugk , Zagreb 1996

Translations

  • The chameleons are currently red , Tübingen 1989
  • Croatian folk tales , Düsseldorf [a. a.] 1975 (translated with Vladimir Milak)
  • Desanka Maksimović : I beg your pity , Valjevo 1988, reissued: Leipziger Literaturverlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-86660-191-8
  • Macedonian folk tales , Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1972
  • Kosta Racin : White Twilight , Skopje 1978
  • Serbian fairy tales , Munich 1992
  • The Gypsy in Paradise , Kassel 1985

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personal data
SURNAME Eschker, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal