Wolfgang Held (writer, 1933)
Wolfgang Held (born August 15, 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † December 11, 2016 in London ) was a German writer and translator.
Life
Wolfgang Held did his doctorate in 1960 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a thesis on Georg Trakl as a doctor of philosophy . Held, who has lived as a freelance writer, translator and pianist in London since 1973 , has published his own literary works since 1965. In 1983 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .
Wolfgang Held was the author of novels , short stories , essays and biographies ; he also translated from English .
In 1983 Wolfgang Held received the literary prize of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry and in 1994 the Berganza Prize of the Bamberg Art Association for Hoffmann's burning , Held's only play.
Works
- Mönch and Narcissus , Freiburg im Breisgau 1960
- The one in the glass house , Munich 1965
- 79, a letter from the younger Pliny , Frankfurt am Main 1979
- The beautiful gardener , Frankfurt am Main 1979
- Rabenkind , Essen 1985
- History of the cut hand , Hamburg 1994
- Much is lost in the night , novel about Clara and Robert Schumann, Hamburg 1998
- Dream of the Hunger Tower , Basel / Weil am Rhein 2007
- Hoffmann's Burning , drama, premiered in Bamberg in 2015
Editing
- Julius Eduard Hitzig : ETA Hoffmanns life and estate . Frankfurt am Main 1986
- Thomas S. Eliot : About Poetry and Poets . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988
Translations
- John Donne : Enlighten, lady, our darkness. Songs, sonnets, elegies . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2009 (IB 1203)
- James Knowlson : Samuel Beckett. A biography . Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2003
- Samuel Beckett : Long to Chamfort . Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2003 ( Insel-Bücherei 1246)
- Samuel Beckett: Dream of more to less beautiful women . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1996
- Emily Brontë : The storm around the house . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1998 (IB 1187)
- William Golding : With a double tongue . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1998
- Robert Graves : Poems . Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1990
- Robert Graves: The Scream . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998
- Wyndham Lewis : Tarr . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990
- Eoin O'Brien : The Beckett Country . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997
Web links
- http://www.wolfgang-held.com/
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Held in the catalog of the German National Library
- https://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/news/wolfgang-helds-papers-come-to-queen-mary.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary on buchmarkt.de, January 9, 2017, accessed on January 10, 2017
- ↑ Wolfgang Held. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 389.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hero, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 2016 |
| Place of death | London |