TonThis man who will work hard to bring a green transformation to the German coal industry in the next four years has faced another daunting challenge in his previous, less publicized career: bringing the most controversial in British modern history. His poems are translated from English into German.
As Germany’s next Deputy Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Climate, Robert Habeck, the co-leader of the Green Party, will not only become one of Germany’s most influential politicians, Europe, To oversee a new super sector, which will cover general economic policy, renewable energy and the expansion of the national grid, with a proposed budget of more than 10 billion euros.
The final list was announced in Scholz’s cabinet on Monday. The cabinet will achieve gender balance and have the country’s first female interior minister, the Social Democrats Nancy Faeser and Annalena Baerbock, the first female foreign minister, and Habeck will join the green The co-leader of the party. It also includes the first German minister of Turkish descent, the new Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir (Cem Özdemir).
However, 25 years ago, Habaek and his wife Andrea Paluch were both literary graduates, and they are still working on translations specializing in contemporary English poetry.
In 1997, they won the prestigious translation award for translating the works of Merseyside poet Roger McGough into German. A year later, the couple was commissioned to translate Ted Hughes (Ted Hughes) The newly published “Birthday Letter”: The collection of British poets at the time was the first to break the silence, talking about his turbulent relationship with his ex-wife and poet Sylvia Plath. He and Together she led the British literati group in the 1950s.
Hughes had basically withdrawn from public life at this time, because the published books and articles largely held him responsible for Plath’s suicide 35 years ago. In an article written for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2005, Habeck and Paluch recalled how they communicated with Hughes’ agents via multiple option pages for difficult-to-translate paragraphs that were faxed to them.
They wrote: “He only needs to tick the right solution. We didn’t expect him to be in a more miserable state of loneliness.”
Instead, Hughes sent a series of long letters to Habeck and Paluch, which not only expanded the linguistic nuances, but also expanded the British landscape he wrote (the Outer Hebrides are “very suitable for cycling”), and he believes there is The “mountain population” East Anglia’s lions, some of which are black”, and his psychic board, which not only helped him write some of his verses, but also almost won him a “about” in football betting. 2 million pounds”.
In the letter, Habaek shared with the Guardian After an interview in 2019Hughes apologized that some of his poetic references to other esoteric practices (such as telepathic communication and extrasensory perception) might be beyond the minds of his translators: “I’m not sure that my detailed description is even for English readers. Very clear,” he wrote.
After Hughes died of a heart attack on October 28, 1998, shortly after Plath’s 66th birthday, his second wife, Carol, sent a note to Harbeck and Paruk, thanking them for their Work, calling the British poet “feel you on the same wavelength”.
Four years later, Habaek will join the Green Party and will eventually serve as Minister of Energy, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Regions in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein in 2012, assuming his first high-level political position.
After his Green Party, Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Liberal Democratic Party (FDP) support a joint agreement, he will be sworn in as his first national ministerial post on Thursday.
