Translation als Mythos: die deutsche Rezeptionsgeschichte Hans Christian Andersens und die Konstruktion seines autobiographischen Mythos in Deutschland
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Akkad Alhussein [1]
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[1] Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Kreisfreie Stadt Mainz, Alemania
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- Localización: Lebende Sprachen, ISSN 0023-9909, Vol. 65, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 237-256
- Idioma: alemán
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- Translation as Myth: the German reception history of Hans Christian Andersen and the construction of his autobiographical myth in Germany
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Resumen
This paper investigates the reception history of the Danish Poet and fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen in 19th-century Germany and its influence on his (auto)biographical depiction. Like many Scandinavian poets, Andersen discovered Germany’s literary potential and took advantage of it to further his career. In most cases, he was pictured as a genius who suffered systematic underestimation in Denmark. This narrative which determined his reception plays a central role in his German autobiography Märchen meines Lebens (Fairy Tale of my Life). Analyzing Andersen’s autobiographical discourse, I will reconstruct the process of the construction of Andersen’s (auto)biographical myth, emphasizing translation’s role in shaping autobiographical narratives.
