Wolfgang Kasack (russian: Вольфганг Германович Казак, ''Volfgang Germanovich Kazak'';
Potsdam
Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...
, 20 January 1927 –
Much, 10 January 2003) was a German
Slavic studies
Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...
scholar and translator.
After his death, his academic estate was donated to the University of Mainz.
Institute of Slavic Studies inaugurates archive
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He was son of the German writer Hermann Kasack
Hermann Robert Richard Eugen Kasack (24 July 1896 – 10 January 1966) was a German writer. He is best known for his novel '' Die Stadt hinter dem Strom'' (''The city beyond the river''). Kasack was a pioneer of using the medium broadcast for l ...
.
Honors
* 1981 Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung
The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation (german: Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung) is awarded yearly by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.
* 1997 Aleksandr Men Prize
Selected works
* ''Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917'', Stuttgart, Kröner, 1976
* ''Russische Weihnachten: ein literarisches Lesebuch'', Freiburg im Breisgau; Basel; Wien, Herder, 2000
* ''Christus in der russischen Literatur: ein Gang durch ihre Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts'', Stuttgart, Verl. Urachhaus, 2000
* ''Der Tod in der russischen Literatur: Aufsätze und Materialien aus dem Nachlass'' (Hg. Frank Göbler), München, Sagner, 2005
References
External links
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1927 births
2003 deaths
People from Potsdam
Slavists
20th-century German translators
20th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers
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