Ventseslav Konstantinov

Wenzeslaw Konstantinov (also written Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian Венцеслав Константинов; born September 14, 1940 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian writer of aphorisms and translators of German literature.

Life

Konstantinov was born as the son of a music professor in Sofia. He graduated in Germanic studies and philosophy and wrote a thesis on effects of the German literary expressionism on the Bulgarian poetry of the interwar period. Since 1987 he has been teaching translation of German poetry at the University of Sofia.

1991-1992 remained Konstantinov in Berlin during the Berlin Künstlerprogramm on. He lectures and participation in conferences in Berlin, Leipzig, Marburg, Vienna, Prague, Bern, Zurich and Lausanne. 1993-1994 Konstantinov spent in Geneseo, Livingston County ( New York), at the local State University of New York.

He has published poems, essays and radio contributions to the German, Austrian, Swiss and Bulgarian literature and publications about Hans Sachs, Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, ETA Hoffmann, Nikolaus Lenau, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, Stefan Zweig, Odon von Horvath, Elias Canetti, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Heinrich Böll, Alfred Andersch, Martin Walser, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and, Christoph Meckel.

His book translations amount to 70 volumes.

Konstantinov lives in Sofia and the village Solischta in the Rhodope mountain as a freelance writer and translator.

Awards

Works (selection)

The secret life of the rain. aphorisms

The invisible certain things. poetry

  • 2007: writer about the artwork. Sofia, LiK, 276 pp.
  • 2010: The Flute of the dream. Literary Studies. Sofia, Ciela, 288 pp.
  • 2011: tapestry, embroidered with devil tails. Essays. Sofia, Ciela, 148 pp.
  • 2012: The Secret Life of the rain. Aphorisms. Sofia, Ciela, 278 pp.
  • 2013: The invisible certain things. Poems. Sofia, Ab, 32 pp.

Anthologies

  • Austrian narrator. An Anthology. Sofia, Narodna kultura, 1981, 344 pp.
  • At the tree line. 10 German -language narrator of the 20th century, BZNS, 1983, 490 pp.
  • Gently berühr I your hand. Poets from all over the world through the mother. 1989
  • WORLD LIGHT anthology of German poetry from the beginnings to the present. Preface, compilation and Bulgarian adaptations of Wenzeslav Konstantinov. 2004-2008
  • FLUTE DREAM Anthology German narrator of the 20th century. Preface, compilation and translation into Bulgarian of Wenzeslav Konstantinov. 2006-2009
  • German essays and studies from the 20th century. Compilation and translation into Bulgarian of Wenzeslav Konstantinov. 2009
  • "I dream of you so quiet ". German love poetry from the beginnings to the present. Compilation and Bulgarian adaptations of Wenzeslav Konstantinov. 2004-2008

Essays ( in German )

  • Jura Soyfer and Elias Canetti. Two poets fates in Vienna during the interwar period, " Jura Soyfer. Journal of Jura Soyfer Society ", Vienna, 2, 1992
  • Paradoxical sur le Traducteur. The machine as interpreters? The Art of Translation in tension with the computer - mediation, " Literary Colloquium Berlin", 1992
  • The poet and his executioner. Censorship deletions in Dürrenmatt's novel "The Terror", University of Zurich, 1992
  • In search of the lost identity. Bulgarian Literature in Transition, University of Bern, 1992
  • The battle between the dead. Orthodox and Islamic religion in Communist Bulgaria, " European Review", Vienna, 3, 1992
  • Elias Canetti - An Austrian writer? Transformations between Rustchuk and Vienna, " TRANS", Internet Journal for Cultural Studies, Vienna, No. 7, September 1999

Publisher

  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poetry. 1979
  • Max Frisch, diaries. 2 vols 1979
  • Odon von Horvath, The Eternal Philistine. Selected prose. 1983
  • Ilse Aichinger, mirror story. Selected prose. 1984
  • Stefan Zweig, The European idea. Selected essays. 1985
  • Thomas Mann, Briefe. 2 vols 1988-1989

Editor and translator

  • Bodo Uhse, marching out in September. Selected stories. 1967
  • Erich Kästner, if the Existentialism curable? Selected stories. 1968
  • Lion Feuchtwanger, The House on the Green Route. Selected stories. 1981
  • Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. Selected stories. 1982
  • Martin Walser, Runaway Horse. Selected stories. 1982
  • Bertolt Brecht, The trophies of Lucullus. Selected stories. 1983
  • Christoph Meckel, hotel for sleepwalkers. Selected poems. 1984
  • Hermann Hesse, The Stolen suitcase. Selected stories. 1986
  • Kurt Tucholsky, interview with myself. Poems and stories. 1986
  • Heinrich Böll, The Dwarf and the doll. Selected stories. 1987
  • Alfred Andersch, Diana with the flute player. Selected stories. 1988
  • Erich Kästner, Realistic Romance. Poetry and prose. 2009
  • Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony. Selected stories. 2010
  • Heinrich Böll, Selected stories. 2012

Book translations

  • Bertolt Brecht, The Life of Galileo. Spectacle. 1964
  • Bertolt Brecht, calendars stories. Poems and stories. 1975
  • Bertolt Brecht, Little Organon for the Theater. Essay. 1985
  • Bertolt Brecht, The Trial of Lucullus. Radio play. 1985
  • Max Frisch, Stiller. Novel. 1978, 1982, 2011
  • Max Frisch, Homo Faber. Novel. 1973, 1981, 1995, 2012
  • Max Frisch, The Man in the Holocene. Narrative. 1984
  • Max Frisch, Don Juan, or the love of geometry. Comedy. 1979
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The suspicion. Novel. 1972, 1984, 1989
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Tunnel. Narrative. 1981
  • Elias Canetti, wedding. Drama. 1980
  • Stefan Zweig, Schachnovelle. 1973, 1987, 2013
  • Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Essay. 1989
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The sinking of the Titanic. A comedy. 1990
  • Erich Maria Remarque, Heaven knows no favorites. Novel. 1972, 1985, 2009
  • Katja Mann, My unwritten memoirs. 1989
  • Frederick Christian Delius, Mogadishu window seat. Novel. 1992
  • Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder. Drama. 1979
  • Peter Hacks, Peace. A piece. 1985
  • Peter Hacks, the beautiful Helene. A piece. 1986

Translated authors

Alphabetical list of data transferred from Wenzeslaw Konstantinov German-speaking authors:

German Academic Exchange Service Livingston County (New York) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe E. T. A. Hoffmann Rhodope Mountains Integrated Authority File
800615
de