Harry´s Blog

Jozo Boskovski the Macedonian poet left this planet on April 2nd of 2008. I will never forget him. Here are three poems in my translation.
I was so moved by the sprouting of this year’s set of crocuses that I wanted to write a poem about this wonderful flower. But I don’t have to. My dear […]

 
Jüdisches Theater Austria
Inge Maux
Stephanie Fürstenberg
Florentin Groll
Regie: Warren Rosenzweig
Alter Brody
Wehklagen
Vier Einakter
Übersetzt von Ilse Zelenka

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A-1020 Wien, Robertgasse 2
14. November 2010
19 Uhr

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Hier ist zum ersten Mal der Jude selbst - nicht eine durch von Konflikten bewölkten, die dem wirklichen Juden fremd sind, nostalgischen Verstand gesehene sentimental dargestellte Interpretation von ihm; nicht novelized Essays […]

 
Einladung
 Lyrikabend mit Gedichten aus der einzigartigen Sammlung von Herbert Kuhner (Lyriker, Dramatiker, Übersetzer, Poet)
Mit ausgewählten Gedichten bedeutender jüdischer LyrikerInnen (Alter Brody, Else Keren, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Tamar Radzyner, Stella Rotenberg, Thomas Sessler, Herbert Kuhner)
Es interpretieren: Rita Dummer, Karsten Rühl, Herbert Kuhner
Republikanischer Club, Rockhgasse 1- 1010 Wien
25.Feb 2010 19Uhr
Rita DUMMER & Karsten RÜHL
This brilliant acting duo will […]

 ”Herr Strudl”:  “Anders als viele ihrer politischen korrekten Kollegen ham Österreichs UNO-Delegierten während der Rede vom Ahmedi-Nejad net den Saal verlassen. Recht hams. Weil diesmal war fast olles, was er gsagt hat, völlig richtig” .
- Kronen-Zeitung, 25. September 2009
The Austrian “Kronen-Zeitung” and Ahmadinejad
Here’s “Herr Strudl”, who gives streetwise comments in the largest-selling Austrian tabloid:
“Unlike their […]

PEN American Center - Forum
E-mail Forum
Subject: What are we missing?
From: PEN America
To: PEN members
What great books have never been translated into English?
Harry Kuhner: I would like to recommend the work of Leonid Andreyev, the great neglected Russian author who, in my view, was Kafka’s precursor. He is occasionally represented in anthologies, but not much […]

Thomas Bernard left this planet two decades ago, but his literary work is very much alive. I translated poetry and prose by Bernhard. Here are two selections:
Herbert Kuhner: Thomas Bernhard
ORF „5 vor 12″ April 28 1999
Being an author and a translator are not two separate activities for me, but rather one.
Sometimes I consider translating to […]

Gratitude is due to Nimrod
for making all this possible.
I consider my translation activities as an extension of my own poetic output.
There are occasions when I identify with the poems I translate so closely
that I feel that the poets speak for me.
Ilse Aichinger
Zugehörig
Meine schwarzen Pferde,
die ich weiden sehe,
die für mich davonweiden
ins Holz, in die Algen,
meine […]