Heinrich Heine – författare

Sångernas bok, Heines mest spridda diktverk, uppvisar lyriken i ett förändringsskede; här bryts en romantisk poesi med ironiska drag mot en modern ton på fri vers. Ingen tyskspråkig författare har tonsatts så ofta som Heinrich Heine - närmare sjutusen tonsättningar har listats. I denna volym finns originalet som parallelltext. Martin Tegen har tidigare tolkat bl.a. R. M. Rilkes Sonetterna till Orfeus (2009), J. W. Goethes Väst-östlig divan (2004) och W. Shakespeares Sonetter och versberättelser; för vilken Tegen erhöll Samfundet De Nios översättarpris i december 2007.

Heinrich Heine (17971856) var en gigant i sin samtid, hyllad för sin lyrik och fruktad för sin polemik. Hans kärlekssånger sjöngs i salongerna, hans kampsånger kunde man sättas i fängelse för. Genom sin mångfacetterade produktion har Heine mer än andra 1800-talspoeter också behållit sin aktualitet. Den siste romantikern, som han själv kallade sig, var samtidigt ett slags prototyp för den moderna människan, sliten mellan idealism och materialism, poesi och politik, tradition och uppror, religion och nihilism, fjäderlätt ironi och hjärtskärande allvar. Som sekulariserad jude såg han tydligt faran i den växande antisemitismen, som europeisk kosmopolit kämpade han för åsiktsfrihet och mot alla former av nationalistisk inskränkthet. Urvalet i denna volym visar poetens alla sidor, en Heine i helfigur. Många av dikterna är aldrig tidigare översatta trots att de hör till Heines allra främsta. I Malte Persson har de funnit en mästerlig uttolkare. På levande svenska möter oss både vemodig kärlekslyrik och giftig satir, sensuell livsglädje och dikter präglade av de sista årens svåra sjukdom. Dikterna åtföljs av kommentarer samt ett utförligt efterord, i vilket översättaren introducerar Heines liv och verk i deras historiska sammanhang. * Malte Persson (f. 1976) är författare, litteraturkritiker och översättare. Han har tidigare författat ett flertal prisbelönta böcker, däribland sonettsamlingen Underjorden (2011) och den historiska romanen Edelcrantz förbindelser (2008). Som översättare har han bland annat tolkat Thomas Kling och Francis Ponge. Han medverkar regelbundet som skribent i Expressen och tidskriften Fokus. Sedan 2011 är han bosatt i Berlin.

'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in fact born in 1797. He was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelgänger poems show, a man divided against himself. This selection, with the German originals accompanied by English prose translations, provides the perfect introduction to Heine. He can be magnificent as an acute, irreverent commentator on politics and current events, though his genius most often strikes home in the poems filled with despair, or sensuality, or sweetness, or self-mockery, in which he draws out the whole gamut of emotions provoked by love and immanent death.

One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but when his conversion failed to yield the hoped-for job opportunities, he devoted himself to writing instead. This volume presents a new translation of Hebrew Melodies, the third cycle of poems in Heine’s late masterwork, Romanzero, which many critics have interpreted as Heine’s return to his Jewish roots.As Elisheva Carlebach explains in her foreword, Heine’s “return to God” in his final years was motivated not by faith but by a deep admiration of the Jewish people—a sentiment that is clearly reflected in the poems that make up Hebrew Melodies. This edition presents the original German alongside new English translations by Stephen Mitchell, widely known for his ability to make old classics thrillingly new, and Jack Prelutsky, the author of more than fifty poetry collections for children and adults. Mark Podwal’s illustrations beautifully portray the joyous, playful elements of Jewish tradition and hint at what Carlebach calls the “menacing edges of history’s nightmares,” echoing Heine’s position as a poet “caught between worlds.”

This volume presents a colourful and entertaining overview of German intellectual history by a central figure in its development. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), famous poet, journalist, and political exile, studied with Hegel and was personally acquainted with the leading figures of the most important generation of German writers and philosophers. In his groundbreaking History he discusses the history of religion, philosophy, and literature in Germany up to his time, seen through his own highly opinionated, politically aware, philosophically astute, and always ironic perspective. This work, and other writings focussing especially on Heine's rethinking of Hegel's philosophy, are presented here in a new translation by Howard Pollack-Milgate. The volume also includes an introduction by Terry Pinkard which examines Heine both in relation to Hegel and Nietzsche and as a thinker in his own right.

A translation of Heinrich Heine's love poems. This bilingual edition includes an introduction by Heine scholar Jeffrey L. Sammons. The author aims to capture the meaning of the original, but preserve the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods.

Gathers lyric poems, satire, and essays about the German countryside and literature, by the nineteenth-century romantic poet.

The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection of poetic and intellectual achievements in new as well as great classic translations. Convenient and accessible in format, the volumes of The German Library will form the core of any growing library of European literature for years to come.

During the last 25 years of his life, Heinrich Heine lived in Paris for the most part, and there he contributed to the Revue de Deux Mondes a series of prose articles on the religious and political history of Germany, a subject in which he had a deep and lasting interest. Those articles, collected here, cover the period from the Middle Ages to Hegel.