Meisterhaftes Übersetzen

In the "Blättern für die Kunst" published by Stefan George, he states: When translating, one should only bring "what has become one's own property through the manner of transmission [...]". But how does one translate in such a way that the foreign work becomes one's own property? Stefan George - the strict master in the circle of his disciples - is in many respects a masterful translator, who makes the foreign sonnets his own and uses them for his work politics. The study analyzes how George, with the help of the extremely form-conscious translation of the sonnets, places himself in a traditional context with Shakespeare and how he thereby also always works on his own work. First, the Shakespeare translation is placed in George's oeuvre and the significance of Shakespeare for George is presented. In many comparative detailed analyses, George's Shakespeare translation is for the first time examined from the point of view of Shakespeare.