Reinhard Mayer
Visiting Associate Professor of German
Office: Meneely 116
Office Hours: M.W.F 10:30-11:30
Phone: 508 286 3633
Email: mayer_reinhard@wheatoncollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D, Northwestern University
MA, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen (Tufts Program)
BA, Tufts University
Main Interests
Age of Goethe
Thomas Mann
Theater Studies and Opera
Translation Theory and Practice
Poetry
Music and Literature
Images of the Holocaust in literature, theater, film, & visual art
Contemporary Film
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Other Interests
Acredited Translator of German by American Translators Association
Assessment of Proficiency in German:
OPI (Oral Proficiency Interviewer) certified by ACTFL
Reader for Advanced Placement Exams
ZDfB and PWD Tester
Teaching Business German
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
BOOKS
Fremdlinge im Eigenen Haus: Clemens Brentano als Vorbild für Adrian
Leverkühn und Clemens der Ire in den Romanen Doktor Faustus und Der
Erwählte von Thomas Mann Vol. 8 of the Series: Literature and the Sciences of Man. (Bern and New York: Peter Lang) 1996
(in preparation) Editor of Thomas Mann and Music: from Adorno to Wagner
for University of Rochester Press
(in preparation) Translation of Peter Schneider's "Und wenn wir nur eine Stunde gewinnen: Wie ein jüdischer Musiker die Nazi-Jahre überlebe" ("And even if we gain just a another hour: How a Jewish Musician survived the Nazi Years")
ARTICLES (art.) and TRANSLATIONS (trs.)
2002 art. Bio-Bibliographical articles on Henry Hatfield, Jack Stein, Meno Spann and Erich Heller. In: Internationales Germanisten Lexikon 1800-1950 (Deutsches Literatur Archiv Marbach, Germany) Walter de Gruyter Verlag
2001 trs. Essay by Peter Schneider, "Paradoxes and Responsibility: Adriano Sofri and the Italian Left" In: Southern Humanities Review
2000 art. "Evaluating Competing Translations: Sincere Roguery and Deceitful Truth in the Analects of Confucius" In: Translation Perspectives, Binghampton University Press
1999 trs. Poems by Karin Kiwus, Rolf Haufs and Ernesto Cardinale, In: Beacons (Literary Journal of the ATA)
1998 art. "The Theoretical Character of Brecht's Kalendergeschichten" In: Communications (Journal of the International Brecht Society)
1993 trs. "Ethics of Risk Counseling" by Hans Krämer: Risiko und Wagnis
1991 art. "Gedanken und Bedenken nach der ersten Live-Rundfunk-Sendung aus dem Keller des Brecht Hauses" GDR Bulletin Spring (vol 17 no.1)
art. "Gerade im Widersinnigen läßt sich manches Begreifen" GDR Bulletin Spring
(vol 17 no. 1)
1990 art. "Diskussionsbeiträge über Wolokolamsker Chaussee von Heiner Müller und
Heiner Goebbels" In: Brecht 90 ed. Inge Gellert (Peter Lang Verlag)
1989 trs. "Towards a New Aesthetic: Remarks on a Theory of Film" by Robert Musil, In:
Motion Picture Winter (vol III)
1987 trs. "Fairy Tale without a Moon" by Gudrun Brug In: Formations Winter (vol 3, no 3)
1986 trs. Poems of Peter Schneider and Karin Kiwus In: New York-Berlin (vol. 1)
1984 trs. "Welcome Song for Til" by Wolf Biermann In: 8 1/2 by 11 Winter
trs "Rondo" by Jürg Amann In: Formations (vol 1 no 2)
1983 trs. "Poor Yorick" by Ulf Abraham In: 8 1/2 by 11 Fall
trs. "Encounter with Musil" by Ignatio Silone In: Salmagundi Fall
1981 trs. "The Beastliness of the Time" and "If we discipline our conscience, it will torment us with kisses" from Lernprozesse mit tödlichem Ausgang by Alexander Kluge In:
Semiotexte