Wolfgang Kubin

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Wolfgang Kubin (2010)

Wolfgang Kubin (Chinese: 顾 彬; pinyin: Gù Bīn; born December 17, 1945 in Celle ) is a German poet , essayist , sinologist , university professor and literary translator. He is one of the most respected sinologists in Europe.

Studies and teaching

Wolfgang Kubin passed his Abitur at the Dionysianum high school in Rheine in 1966 . His studies included Protestant theology ( Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from 1966 to 1968), Japanese Studies and Chinese ( University of Vienna 1968) as well as Sinology , Philosophy , German and again Japanese Studies ( Ruhr University Bochum from 1969 to 1973).

With the work " The lyrical work of Tu Mu (803–852), attempt at an interpretation ", Kubin was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He conducted his first foreign studies in the high-level Chinese language from 1974 to 1975 at what was then the language institute in Beijing . In 1976 he became the father of a daughter, the future actress Anna Kubin .

Kubin received his first assistant position in 1977 at the East Asian Seminar of the Free University of Berlin . There he taught Chinese literature and art in the 20th century and in 1981 submitted his habilitation thesis on the development of the view of nature in classical Chinese literature.

From 1985 Kubin represented the subject Chinese at the seminar for oriental languages ​​at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; since 1995 he has been a professor of sinology there, and has now retired.

He achieved fame beyond the borders of Sinology as a translator of modern Chinese prose and poetry. His best-known work is probably the six-volume translation of the stories and essays Lu Xun . His history of Chinese literature in the 20th century is considered a standard work. He also publishes in China under his Chinese name 顧 彬 (gu bìn).

Kubin has been working as Senior Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing) since 2011 and at Shantou University (Shantou, Guangdong) since 2019.

Wolfgang Kubin mainly teaches Chinese and German intellectual history as a sinologist, Germanist and philosopher in the Chinese language.

Fonts

  • List of publications by Wolfgang Kubin顾彬成 果 目录(1975–2015) . Edited by Nicola Dischert, Martin Hanke and Li Xuetao. minima sinica 27.2 (2015). Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag and Beijing: Waiyan she, 2016. xli + 145 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-31-4 , News from the Capital of the Sun: Modern Chinese Poetry 1919–1984 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-11322-4 .
  • The new song about the old despair . Weidle, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-931135-44-6 .
  • Tower of Fools: Poems . Weidle, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-931135-62-4 .
  • Shadow dancers: poems . Weidle, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-931135-83-7 .
  • Halfway in love: a story . With an afterword by Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Edition Milo Volume 4. Lehner, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901749-55-1 .
  • Everything is treacherous: poems . Weidle, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938803-16-5 .
  • Under the pagoda tree . Weidle, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938803-15-8 .
  • Wolfgang Kubin (Ed.): History of Chinese Literature.
  • At Dao : The Book of Defeats - Poems. translated and provided with a comment. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23283-9 .
  • Marc Hermann, Wolfgang Kubin, Thomas Zimmer, Zhang Jie, Lena Henningsen, Shelley W. Chan, Anne Xu-Cobb: Chinese contemporary literature: between plagiarism and the market? edition global 2009, ISBN 3-922667-12-0 .
  • Leung Ping-kwan : On politics and the fruits of the field , translated and with an afterword. DAAD Berlin Artists Program , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89357-059-4 .
  • Foreword to Leung Ping-kwan together with Heinz Stahlhut: The Diagonal Mirror: Space and Time in Photographing Hong Kong , Kehrer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939583-88-2 .
  • Leung Ping-kwan: From Jade and Wood: Poems , translated and with a comment. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-85435-596-0 .


The village of singing fish: poems [with an afterword by Hans Stumpfeldt]. Ostasien Verlag, 2011. 117 pages. ISBN 978-3-940527-54-7 .

From the beginning of the mountains: poems . Phönixfeder series 19. Gossenberg, Ostasien Verlag, 2012. vi + 119 pages. ISBN 978-3-940527-70-7 .

In distant lands: poems . Phönixfeder 25 series, Gossenberg, Ostasien Verlag, 2014. ii + 107 pages. ISBN 978-3-940527-81-3 .

Avant-garde texts: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong . Orientationen, literature special 1995. Munich: edition global, 1995. iii + 158 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-25-3 .

The voice of the shadow: the art and craft of translation . Munich: edition global, 2007. 151 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-04-8 . [Revised new edition will be published by Ostasien Verlag in 2029]

The trip to the Red Wall: poetry of the Tang period and its interpretation . Munich: edition global, 2007. 234 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-10-9 <.

Liangdi shu: letters from two worlds . Translated from the Chinese by the Working Group for Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Bonn. Edited by Wolfgang Kubin. Munich: edition global, 2009. 2 volumes. iii + 432 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-11-6 .

Contemporary Chinese Literature: Between Plagiarism and the Market? Edited by Marc Hermann and Wolfgang Kubin. Orientationen, special issue 2009. Munich: edition global, 2009. ii + 160 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-12-3

Is a History of Chinese Literature Possible? Towards the Birth of Chinese Literary Criticism . Ed. by Wolfgang Kubin. Orientations, special issue 2011. Munich: edition global, 2013. iii + 212 pages. ISBN 978-3-946114-16-1

News from the capital of the sun. Modern Chinese poetry 1919 to 1984. German and Chinese, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-902735-51-5

The early work. Volume 1. The man in the room. Poems. German and Chinese, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-902735-73-7

The early work. Volume 2. Abyssal Enlightenment. Poems. German and Chinese, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-902735-74-4

The early work. Volume 3. The Balance of Unrest. German and Chinese, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-902735-52-2

The early work. Volume 4. The construction of the monkey. Scattered writings. Poems. German and Chinese, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-902735-75-1

The collected early work in four volumes. Poems. German and Chinese, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-902735-95-9

Half of a love. A story, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-902735-53-9

Lacrimae mundi. Poems, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-902735-54-6

The history of blackness and other stories, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-903071-58-2

What comes, what stays. A poetic mixed sentence, Bacopa, Schiedlberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-903071-50-6

Articles and interviews

Awards

2003 Prize for Literature from the Bonn Reading Society for the volume of poems Narrentürme

2007 State Prize of the PR China for special services to the Chinese book culture (Zhonghua tushu teshu gongxian zhuang 中华 图书 特殊 贡献 奖), awarded at the Beijing Book Fair

2007 Pamir International Poetry Prize for translations of modern and contemporary Chinese poetry (Zhongkun guoji shige jiang 中 坤 国际 诗歌 奖)

2009 Weilun Research Award from Beijing Tsinghua University

2012 Shanghai TV Future Prize on the occasion of the five-year anniversary of its International Channel Shanghai (ICS 5th Anniversary Celebration).

2013 Johann Heinrich Voß Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry for outstanding achievements in the field of translation

2015 “First International Feng Zikai Literature Prize” (Shoujie quanqiu Feng Zikai sanwen jiang 首届 全球 丰子恺 散文 奖) for the essay “Bei'ai zhong de kuaile” 悲哀 中 的 快乐 in the daily Nanfang zhoumo

2016 Sichuan Essay Society Prize (Sichuan Sheng sanwen xuehui 四川省 散文 学会)

2016 State Prize of the PRC for services as a foreign expert on the reform of the country (Zhongguo zhengfu youyi jiang 中国 政府 友谊 奖)

2018 State Prize of the PR China for outstanding foreign personality.

2018 Rou Gang Poetry Prize from Nanking University.

2020 Huilin Prize for Spreading Chinese Culture Abroad 会 林 浆.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A star in China. Portrait in the taz, October 15, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Kubin, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist and professor of sinology at the University of Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle