Hans Wollschläger was a German

Germany

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 writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.

Biography

Wollschläger is widely known as the translator of Ulysses

Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...

by James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

. He also translated the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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 (together with Arno Schmidt

Arno Schmidt

Arno Schmidt was a German author and translator.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, son of a police constable, Schmidt moved with his widowed mother to Lauban and attended the secondary school in Görlitz. He then worked as a clerk in a textile company in Greiffenberg...

), and novels by Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...

 and Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett

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. He was vice chairman of the Karl May

Karl May

Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...

 society and was one of the editors of the historical critical edition of this author.

He wrote several books, including a history of the Crusades

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...

 which has a polemical aspect (at the close of the book he suggests the Catholic Church be declared a criminal organisation) but also contains excerpts from several Arabic sources never previously translated into German.

Originally Hans Wollschläger had studied music. He wrote three symphonies which have never been performed in public. He also worked on a performing edition of the draft of Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...

's unfinished Tenth Symphony

Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)

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, which he never completed. However, under the influence of Erwin Ratz

Erwin Ratz

Erwin Ratz was an Austrian musicologist and music theorist. He studied musicology with Guido Adler and composition with Arnold Schoenberg and was active in the Schoenberg circle. In the 1920s he worked at the Bauhaus. After World War II he was a professor of musical form and analysis in Vienna...

, Wollschläger came to the conclusion that an unfinished masterwork should not be touched, and publicly withdrew his edition in 1962.

Selected works

• Karl May (1965, 1976, 2004)
• Die bewaffneten Wallfahrten gen Jerusalem (1970, 1973)
• Nacht-Stücke (1974)
• Die Gegenwart einer Illusion (1978)
• Herzgewächse oder Der Fall Adams (1982)
• Von Sternen und Schnuppen (1984)
• In diesen geistfernen Zeiten (1986)
• «Tiere sehen dich an» oder das Potential Mengelehttp://www.tierversuchsgegner.org/texte/tiere/ (1987).
• Bannkreis der Besseren Heimat (1990)
• Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh: Wie dies stirbt, so stirbt er auch (2001)
• Moments musicaux. (2005)