The Michael Hamburger Archive: Mediating European Literature

迈克尔·汉堡包是现代欧洲文学--主要是德国和奥地利文学--以英语向读者传播的最重要的调解人之一。他出生在一个犹太血统的德国家庭，1933年以难民身份来到英国。他成了诗人、文学评论家，并翻译了许多作家，包括霍尔德林、歌德、里尔克、西兰、布莱希特、恩斯特·詹德尔、汉斯·马格努斯·恩曾斯-伯杰和W·G·塞巴尔德。汉堡包在大英图书馆的档案到目前为止还没有编目，包括94箱翻译、诗歌和散文的草稿；与作家、出版商和朋友的信件；日记和个人反思以及许多其他文件。CDP通过研究、编目和公众参与，提供了一个独特的机会，来阐明在过去四分之三个世纪中英德文化关系的核心过程：文学的翻译，特别是诗歌的翻译；费耶尔顿风格的写作和更多的文学批评；以及对翻译和文化转移的详细反思。该项目将加强目前德国研究中对跨国问题的重视，它表明了学术界和公众对德国和联合王国关系的持久兴趣。同样，这样一个完整档案的存在为翻译研究提供了一个绝佳的机会。除了博士研究之外，与之紧密相关的学生身份将对档案的组织和编目以及图书馆对翻译人员档案的不断发展的方法和理解做出重大贡献。申请者被邀请提出一个博士项目，从以下一个或多个角度接近迈克尔·汉堡档案馆。在这些领域，与档案馆密切、持续的接触将产生其他方面无法发展的研究见解，学术研究将与图书馆的实际工作密切相关。

Michael Hamburger was one of the foremost mediators of modern European - mainly German and Austrian - literature to readers in English. Born into a German family of Jewish descent, he came to the UK as a refugee in 1933. He became a poet, a literary critic, and the translator of a very broad range of writers, including Hölderlin, Goethe, Rilke, Celan, Brecht, Ernst Jandl, Hans Magnus Enzens-berger and W. G. Sebald. Hamburger's archive at the British Library, which thus far is uncatalogued, comprises 94 boxes of drafts of translations, poems and essays; correspondence with writers, publishers and friends; and diaries and personal reflections among many other documents. The CDP offers a unique opportunity, through research, cataloguing, and public engagement, to illuminate processes that have been at the core of Anglo-German cultural relations in the past three-quarters of a century: the translation of literature, and specifically poetry; the writing of feuilleton-style and heavier literary criticism; and reflection at length on translation and cultural transfer. The project will enhance the current emphasis on the transnational in German studies, and it speaks to an enduring academic and public interest in the relationship between Germany and the United Kingdom. Equally, the existence of such a full archive makes this an outstanding opportunity for Translation Studies research.Alongside the PhD research, and integrally connected with it, the studentship will involve a significant contribution to the organisation and cataloguing of the archive, and to the evolving approaches to and understanding of translators' archives in the Library. Applicants are invited to propose a PhD project that approaches the Michael Hamburger Archive from one or more of the following angles. These are areas in which close, sustained engagement with the archive will achieve research insights which cannot be developed otherwise, and where academic research will interconnect closely with practical work for the Library.