Margitt Lehbert Bücher

Im Blick auf das enge Saaletal bei Jena mag es schwerfallen zu glauben, dass eine Stadt mit rund 100.000 Einwohnern zwischen den steilen Hängen der Saale Platz finden kann. Jena ist heute weit mehr als die romantischen Überreste des alten Zentrums, von dem aus Luthers Schriften, Schillers Werke und die Mikroskope von Carl Zeiss in die Welt gingen. Dieses Buch lädt dazu ein, mit offenen Augen durch die Geschichte und Gegenwart dieser traditionsreichen und gleichzeitig modernen Stadt zu spazieren, Bekanntes freundlich zu begrüßen und neue Perspektiven zu entdecken. Es ist ein ideales Geschenk für jeden, der anderen seine Heimatstadt näherbringen möchte.

This collection of Trakl's essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, "Gedichte "(Poems', 1913) and "Sebastian im Traum" (Sebastian in a Dream', 1914), together with the later poems published in the magazine "Der Brenner" which might have formed the nucleus of a third collection.His starkly beautiful, musical poems are rightly regarded as being among the early twentieth century's most original poetry. From a life marred by drug addiction and breakdowns, he created work of great depth and power, brought hauntingly to life in Margitt Lehbert's close and sympathetic versions.Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was born in Salzburg, Austria, where he lived apart from spells in Vienna. After qualifying as a pharmacist he spent his year of military service in the Innsbruck garrison hospital pharmacy. In the wake of the Battle of Grodek, he died of a drug overdose in a military hospital in Krakow.Margitt Lehbert was born in Geneva, Switzerland, to German parents in 1957. She grew up in the United States and Germany, studied in Konstanz and Iowa City, and translates into German as well as English. In 2006 she founded Edition Rugerup, which publishes mostly poetry in translation. She lives in south Sweden.