Heinrich Mann Prize
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Edition 81 (2001) Winner
Walter Boehlich
ヴァルター・ベーリッヒ
Varutā Bērithi
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1921-09-16 （Breslau (now Wrocław)）
- Died
- 2006-04-06 （Hamburg） age 84
- Nationality
- German
- Languages
- German, French, Spanish, Danish
- Residence History
- Breslau → Bonn → Hamburg
Career
- Occupations
- journalist, literary critic, literary editor, translator
- Active Years
- 1945-2006
- Affiliations
- Suhrkamp Verlag, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Memberships
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Bonn | — | philology | — | — | Germany |
University of Bonn
philology
Country:
Germany
assistant of Prof. Ernst Robert Curtius
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Johann Heinrich Merck Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1997 | Jane Scatcherd Translator Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2001 | Heinrich Mann Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Wilhelm-Merton-Preis für Europäische Übersetzungen | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Johann Heinrich Merck Prize
1990
Result:
受賞
Jane Scatcherd Translator Prize
1997
Result:
受賞
Heinrich Mann Prize
2001
Result:
受賞
Wilhelm-Merton-Preis für Europäische Übersetzungen
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Autodafé
1968 pamphletPamphlet on literature and its socio-historical background
Death of criticismBourgeois literature
1848
1973 essaysBibliography
- 1848 (1973)
Translations by Author
- Herman Bang: A History of Luck (1993)
- Herman Bang: Summer Friends (1993)
- Herman Bang: The White House. The Grey House (1958)
- Giambattista Basile: The Fairy Tale of all Fairy Tales
- Steen Steensen Blicher: Fragments from the Diary of a Village Sexton (1993)
- Karen Blixen: On Modern Marriage and Other Observations (1987)
- Gabriel Dagan: The Appointment (1986)
- Régis Debray: The Chilean Revolution (1972)
- Marguerite Duras: The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas (1963)
- Marguerite Duras: Destroy, She Said (1970)
- Jean Giraudoux: Simon (1961)
- Víctor Jara: Víctor Jara (1976)
- Søren Kierkegaard: Journals (1955)
- Vizconde de Lascano Tegui: Of the Grace in Sleep (1995)
- Amedeo Modigliani: Modigliani (1961)
- The East Indian Traveler (1970)
- Peter Ronild: The Heads (1971)
- Monique Saint-Hélier: The Ways of the Morning Land (1958)
- Ramón José Sender: Requiem for a Spanish Statesman (1964)
- Ramón José Sender: The Missing (1961)
- Hjalmar Söderberg: Evening Star (1980)
- Hjalmar Söderberg: Gertrud (1980)
- Lope de Vega Carpio: The Stray of Valencia (1967)
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- sharp criticismintellectual analysis
- Recurring Motifs
- critique of bourgeois literaturepost-war literature
Legacy
The essence of Suhrkamp Verlag, modern literature and corresponding theory, was owed to him. One of the last great intellectuals of the old Federal Republic.
In Popular Culture
- Autodafé became a standard item of wall decoration in students' living communities
Quotes
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Criticism is dead. Which one? The bourgeois kind that prevailed. It killed itself, died with the bourgeois world to which it belonged, died with the bourgeois literature that it slapped on the back, died with the bourgeois aesthetics on which it had set its foundations, died with the bourgeois god that had blessed it...
Source: Autodafé (Kursbuch nr.15) (1968)
Trivia
- Discriminated at school due to Jewish background during Nazi regime
- Son of writer Ernst Boehlich
- Once won an argument against Marcel Reich-Ranicki