Hölderlin’s Poltergeists
A Drama for Voices
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Biographical Chronologies
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)
- Stephan Hermlin (1915–1997)
- Translator’s Introduction
- Hölderlin’s Poltergeists
- Hölderlin 1944
- ‘Spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower’
- Glossary of Names
- Series Index
Illustrations
Frontispiece: (»Pallaksch. Pallaksch.«) (2018) by Diana Brauchle
Figure 1.1 Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1842), Luise Keller, pencil sketch
Figure 1.2 Stephan Hermlin (n.d.), photographer unknown
Figure 1.4 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (c.1760), steel engraving, artist unknown
Figure 1.5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (c.1753), pastel on paper, Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Figure 1.6 Nathanael Köstlin (n.d.), portrait drawing, artist unknown
Figure 1.7 Johanna Christiana Gok, née Heyn (1767), oil on canvas, artist unknown
Figure 1.9 Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1801), chalk drawing, Friedrich Bury
Figure 2.1 Susette Gontard, née Borkenstein (n.d.), miniature portrait, Elisabeth Sömmering
Figure 2.2 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (c.1800), oil on canvas, Christian Friedrich Tieck
←xiii | xiv→Figure 2.6 Gustav Benjamin Schwab (1850/8), lithograph, Christian Sigmund Pfann
Figure 2.7 Eduard Friedrich Mörike (n.d.), photographer unknown (Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg)
Figure 2.8 Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger (n.d.), pen and ink self-portrait
Figure 2.9 Stefan Anton George (1910), photograph, Jacob Hilsdorf
Figure 3.0 Friedrich Norbert Theodor von Hellingrath (1914), photographer unknown
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Dan Farrelly, Laurel Plapp, Rüdiger Görner, Isabel Wagner, Monique Gilbert and Anne Rosenbusch.
Frontispiece redesigned and reproduced with the generous permission and cooperation of Diana Brauchle at botanicmind.com.
Lead epigraph adapted from Roland Barthes, ‘Le grain de la voix’, originally published in Musique en jeu 9 (November 1972), 57–63, our translation. (All subsequent English translations ours unless noted.)
Joy Division, ‘Transmission’. Words and music by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris © 1979 Universal Music Publishing Ltd. Reproduced with the permission of Hal Leonard Europe Ltd.
Stephan Hermlin, Scardanelli © 1970, 1985 and 1993 Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin. English translation permitted by agreement.
Details
- Pages
- XXX, 148
- Publication Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781789977073
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781789977080
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781789977097
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781789977066
- DOI
- 10.3726/b17266
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (March)
- Keywords
- German Romanticism audio/radio drama translation
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2020. XXX, 148 pp., 1 fig. col., 20 fig. b/w.
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