Wolfgang Kaußen

Wolfgang Kaußen (born October 20, 1953 in Düren ) is a German editor , writer and translator .

Life

Wolfgang Kaußen studied German , history , art history and philosophy at the University of Bonn . In 1980 received his doctorate he there with a thesis on Gottfried Benn for doctor of philosophy. Since then he has worked in the editing departments of the Suhrkamp publishing houses and Deutscher Klassiker Verlag in Frankfurt am Main .

Wolfgang Kaußen has so far published three volumes of his own poems and in addition - often together with his wife, the dramaturge and translator Jutta Kaußen - a number of translations of the works of English-language poets , which he himself calls replicas .

Works

• Divisions . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1981 (= book edition of the dissertation).
• Quadriga . SPQ Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Kunstkammer . SPQ Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Autochrome . SPQ Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001.

Editing

• William Shakespeare : Twenty One Sonnets . Transferred by Paul Celan . With an essay by W. Kaußen. Insel, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2001 ( Insel-Bücherei 899 / B).

Translations

• Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnets . Bilingual edition. SPQ Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• William Shakespeare : Sonnets . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• Ted Hughes : The tiger doesn't kill . Insel, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1998 (translated together with Jutta Kaußen).
• John Donne : Go catch a star that is falling . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2001 (also contains poems by George Herbert and Andrew Marvell ; translated together with Werner Vordtriede ).
• George Herbert : Poems . SPQ Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001.
• Ted Hughes: How Poetry Is Made . Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2001 (translated together with Jutta Kaußen and Claas Kazzer).
• Ted Hughes: Something has to stay . Frankfurt am Main 2002 (translated together with Jutta Kaußen).

Web links

• Review notes on the information portal perlentaucher on translations by Wolfgang Kaußen.