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Ruth Klüger

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Ruth Klüger

別名: Ruth Klueger / Ruth Angress
ペンネーム: Ruth AngressUsed as a pen name for some publications

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1931-10-30 (Vienna, Austria)
死没
2020-10-05 (Irvine, California, United States) 88歳
国籍
Austria, United States
言語
German, English
宗教
Judaism
居住地歴
Vienna, Austria → Straubing, Bavaria, Germany → Göttingen, Germany → Irvine, California, United States → United States (worked in several locations as a professor)

経歴

職業
Professor, Author
活動期間
1952年〜2020年
所属
Cleveland (teaching position), Kansas (teaching position), Virginia (teaching position), Princeton University, University of California, Irvine (Professor, later Professor Emerita)
影響を受けた人物
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Heinrich von Kleist

学歴

Philosophisch-theologische Hochschule, Regensburg
Philosophy and History
期間: 1945-1947
国: Germany
Studied in Germany shortly after World War II
Hunter College
School of Arts and Sciences / English Literature
学位: M.A.
期間: 1947-1952
卒業年: 1952
国: United States
Studied English literature after emigrating to the United States; earned an M.A.
University of California, Berkeley
German Literature
学位: Ph.D.
期間: 1950s–1967
卒業年: 1967
国: United States
Received a Ph.D. in German literature

受賞歴

Rauris Literature Prize
1993
主催: Rauris (Austria)
結果: 受賞
Grimmelshausen Prize
1993
主催: Grimmelshausen Prize committee (Germany)
結果: 受賞
Lower Saxony State Prize
1993
主催: State of Lower Saxony
結果: 受賞
Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
1995
主催: Literary organizations (Germany)
結果: 受賞
Andreas Gryphius Prize (honorary prize)
1996
主催: Andreas Gryphius Prize committee (Germany)
結果: 名誉賞受賞
Heinrich Heine Medal
1997
主催: Heinrich Heine organizations
結果: 受賞
Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism
1998
主催: Austrian government / cultural institutions
結果: 受賞
Prix de la Shoah
1998
主催: Prix de la Shoah (France)
結果: 受賞
Thomas Mann Prize
1999
主催: Thomas Mann Prize committee (Germany)
結果: 受賞
Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie
1999
主催: Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie (Germany)
結果: 受賞
Goethe Medal
2005
主催: Goethe-Institut
結果: 受賞
Roswitha Prize
2006
主催: Roswitha Prize committee (Germany)
結果: 受賞
Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
2007
主催: Free State of Saxony
結果: 受賞
Hermann Cohen Medal
2008
主催: Hermann Cohen organizations (Germany)
結果: 受賞
Ehrenmedaille of the City of Göttingen
2010
主催: City of Göttingen
結果: 受賞
Austrian Danubius Donauland Nonfiction Book Prize (for lifetime achievement)
2010
対象作品: Lifetime achievement
主催: Donauland / Austrian cultural organizations
結果: 受賞
Theodor Kramer Prize
2011
主催: Theodor Kramer Prize committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Weiter leben: Eine Jugend (Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered)

1992年 Memoir / Autobiography

A memoir recounting Klüger's childhood in Vienna and her experiences in Nazi concentration camps. It addresses memory, survival, and a critical view of Holocaust memorial culture.

HolocaustMemorySurvivalIdentityChildhood
翻訳
  • English translation by the author: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001)

Katastrophen: Über die deutsche Literatur

1993年 Literary criticism

A collection of essays and criticism on German literature, examining literary works against historical and social backdrops.

German literatureLiterary criticismHistory

Von hoher und niederer Literatur

1995年 Literary essays

Essays discussing the distinction and valuation of highbrow and popular literature.

Literary theoryEvaluation

Knigge's Umgang mit Menschen – "Eine Vorlesung"

1996年 Lecture / Essay

An essay based on a lecture about social conduct and interpersonal relations.

Social conductEthicsObservation of human behavior

Frauen lesen anders

1996年 Essays / Criticism

A collection of writings on how women read differently and the distinctive perspectives they bring.

GenderReading practices

Unterwegs verloren: Erinnerungen

2008年 Memoir

A later collection of memories and essays addressing themes of memory, displacement, and loss.

MemoryLossDisplacement

Zerreißproben. Kommentierte Gedichte

2013年 Poetry (annotated)

An annotated collection of poems including experimental approaches to form and language.

PoetryLanguage experiment

Gegenwind. Gedichte und Interpretationen

2018年 Poetry and interpretations

A volume of poems and their interpretations, marked by a critical perspective.

PoetryCriticismInterpretation

全著作

  • Weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992)
  • Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001)
  • Katastrophen: Über die deutsche Literatur (1993)
  • Von hoher und niederer Literatur (1995)
  • Knigges Umgang mit Menschen (1996)
  • Frauen lesen anders (1996)
  • Unterwegs verloren: Erinnerungen (2008)
  • Zerreißproben. Kommentierte Gedichte (2013)
  • Gegenwind. Gedichte und Interpretationen (2018)
  • Various other essays, criticisms and translations

作家による翻訳

  • English translation of Weiter leben by the author: Still Alive (2001)

作品の翻訳

  • Weiter leben translated into English as Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001)
  • Also translated into other languages including editions in the UK and France (titles vary by edition)

作風・主題

文体
Frank and critical toneEssayistic and analytical prose
頻出モチーフ
Memory and forgettingSurvival and traumaCritical engagement with historical memory

評価・遺産

Ruth Klüger was both a Holocaust survivor and an authority on German literature; her memoir Weiter leben is widely read as a study of memory and a critique of memorial culture. She received numerous literary prizes and influenced discourse in both German- and English-speaking contexts.

関連学会

  • Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Literature)

大衆文化への影響

  • Her memoir is frequently referenced in Holocaust education and memory studies

引用

  • My memoir is critical of the museum culture surrounding the Holocaust.
    出典: Still Alive / Weiter leben (2001年)

豆知識

  • Deported to Theresienstadt at age 10 and later transferred to Auschwitz and the Christianstadt subcamp of Gross-Rosen.
  • Emigrated to the United States in 1947.
  • Published some works under the name Ruth Angress.
  • Professor Emerita of German Studies at University of California, Irvine.