Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
French writer and translator (born 1928)
About Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
Born 1928. Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt is a French and German writer, translator, literary critic and teacher.
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 2 May 1928) is a French writer and translator of German origin.
Biography Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born in Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism.
His father was an adviser to the Hamburg Court of Appeal until 1933. He was then deported to Theresienstadt where he served as Protestant pastor of "Protestant Jews" deported because of their origin.
Georges-Arthur fled Germany in 1938. He took refuge in Italy with his brother, then in France, in a boarding school in Megève. From 1943 to September 1944, he was hidden in Haute-Savoie among farmers, particularly François and Olga Allard, who were honoured on August 6, 2012, as Righteous Among the Nations.
Goldschmidt obtained French nationality in 1949. He was a professor ("agrégé d’allemand") until 1992. He taught at Lycée Paul Eluard for 19 years.
A writer and essayist, Goldschmidt chose French as a language of expression and writing, without abandoning German. He is a translator, among others, of Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka and Peter Handke.
Prizes and distinctions 1991: Preis der SWR-Bestenliste 1991: 1991: Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (for Die Absonderung) 1993: Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen 1996: 1997: Doctor honoris causa of the University of Osnabrück 1999: Ludwig-Börne-Preis 2001: Nelly Sachs Prize of the city of Dortmund 2002: Goethe-Medaille 2004: Prix France Culture (for Le Poing dans la bouche) 2005: Joseph-Breitbach-Preis. 2007: Erlanger Literaturpreis für Poesie als Übersetzung 2007: The programme for young literary translators of the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO) and the Frankfurt Book Fair is named after him "Goldschmidt Programme " 2013: 2015: Sigmund-Freud-Kulturpreis
Works 2015: Les Collines de Belleville. Actes Sud. 2013: Heidegger et la langue allemande, series "Classiques des sciences sociales", UQAC. 2013: La Joie du passeur, CNRS 2011: L'Esprit de retour, Éditions du Seuil 2009: A l'insu de Babel, CNRS Éditions 2009: Une langue pour abri, Créaphis/Facim 2008: Un enfant aux cheveux gris, CNRS Éditions 2007: Celui qu’on cherche habite juste à côté, 2005: Le Recours, Verdier 2004: Le Poing dans la bouche, Verdier 2001: En présence du Dieu absent, Bayard 1988: Quand Freud voit la mer, 1999: La Traversée des fleuves, Seuil 1997: Molière ou La liberté mise à nu, Éditions Circé 1997: La Matière de l’écriture, Circé 1996: Quand Freud attend le verbe, Buchet/Chastel 1991: La Forêt interrompue, Seuil 1988: Peter Handke, Seuil 1986: Un Jardin en Allemagne, Seuil 1978: Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou L'esprit de solitude, Éditions Phébus 1973: Molière ou La liberté mise à nu, Éditions Julliard 1971: Le Fidibus, Julliard 1971: Un corps dérisoire, Julliard 1967: Marcel Béalu : un cas de flagrant délit, Le Terrain Vague
Translations Walter Benjamin Allemands, , 2012.
Georg Büchner Lenz, Éditions Vagabonde.
Franz Kafka Le Procès, Press Pocket, 1974. Le Château, Press Pocket, 1976.
Peter Handke Bienvenue au conseil d'administration La courte lettre pour un long adieu Après midi d'un écrivain, Éditions Gallimard, 1987. L'heure de la sensation vraie (adapted to cinema in 1988 by Didier Goldschmidt under the title ) La femme gauchère Le poids du monde Les gens déraisonnables sont en voie de disparition Par les villages Encore une fois pour Thucydide, Bourgois, 1996. Essai sur la fatigue, Gallimard, 1998. Histoire d'enfant, Gallimard, 2001. Par une nuit obscure je sortis de ma maison tranquille, Gallimard, 2001. Lucie dans la forêt avec les truc-machins, Gallimard, 2001.
Nietzsche Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra, LGF, 1983.
Adalbert Stifter L'Homme sans postérité, Phébus, Libretto, 1978
Studies Life, work, individual aspects Heinz Ludwig Arnold, Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt Roger-Yves Roche, Photofictions - Perec, Modiano, Duras, Goldschmidt, Barthes Wolfgang Asholt (Hrsg.): Studien zum Werk von Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. Osnabrück 1999. Klaus Bonn: Zur Topik von Haus, Garten und Wald, Meer. Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. Bielefeld 2003. Michaela Holdenried: Das Ende der Aufrichtigkeit? Zum Wandel autobiographischer Dispositive am Beispiel von Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 149. Jg. (1997), Bd. 234, H. 1, pp. 1–19. Wohnen zwischen den Sprachen: Der deutsch-französische Autor Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. Einführung in Leben und Werk. In: Französische Gegenwartsliteratur (= Begegnungen mit dem Nachbarn. Band 3). Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2004, , pp. 127–137 (Kurzfassung online; PDF-Datei, 39 KB). Tim Trzaskalik: Gegensprachen. Das Gedächtnis der Texte. Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. Frankfurt 2007. Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (= Text+Kritik. H. 181). edition text + kritik, München 2009. Renate Göllner: Masochismus und Befreiung: Georges-Arthur Goldschmit.In: Gerhard Scheit, Manfred Dahlmann (Hrsg.): sans phrase Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik. Heft 8, Frühjahr 2016. ça ira, Freiburg/Wien, 2016, pp. 180–191
Interviews Gero von Boehm: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. 6. Juni 2002. Interview in: Begegnungen. Menschenbilder aus drei Jahrzehnten. Collection Rolf Heyne, München 2012, , pp. 298–306.
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