Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany on March 22nd, 1924 and is the Poet. At the age of 83, Michael Hamburger biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Michael Hamburger (1924-2007) was a well-known British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic.
His translations included Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and W. G. Sebald from Germany, as well as his literary criticism.
Paul Hamlyn (1926-2001) was his younger brother.
Life and work
Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin into a Jewish family that immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933 and settled in London. He was educated at Westminster College and Christ Church, Oxford, and served in the British Army from 1943 to 1947 in Italy and Austria. After that, he completed his degree and wrote for a while. In 1951, he was at University College London, and then at the University of Reading in 1955. Many academic positions followed in the United Kingdom and the United States. At Mount Holyoke College (1966–7), the University of Buffalo (1969), Wesleyan University (1972), and the University of California (1973) (1973). In 1978, he returned to England permanently, as the year he became a part-time professor at the University of Essex.
Many of the best German-language writers, especially poets, were translated into Hamburger by the Hamburger. His work was recognized with numerous awards, including the Aristeion Prize in 1990 and the Order of the British Empire in 1992. In W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, Hamburger lived in Middleton, Suffolk, and appeared as a character. The man and his family were visited by artist Tacita Dean, whose touching film Michael Hamburger focuses on the man and his family, as well as the man and his apple orchard bonding.
The Truth of Poetry (1968), a major work of criticism, was included in representative works. His Collected Poems, 1941-1994 (1995), drew on about twenty collections. Hamburger himself expressed skepticism about the habit of reviewing his own poetry with a ritualized "Michael Hamburger," a writer better known as a translator." Possibly ironically, Peter Waterhouse, an Austrian poet and translator, is better known in German translations. He often wrote about literature: the first edition of his autobiography bore the name A Mug's Game, a quote from T. S. Eliot, whom Hamburger adored, and in honor of his sixtieth-birthday biblio-symposium he contributed an eponymous poem of four stanzas that tells its own tale.
Michael Hamburger was honoured with the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis for translation in 1964 and 1992, as well as with the Petrarca-Preis. He died on June 7, 2007 at his Suffolk home.