Rainer Maria Rilke Diskussionforum

The more I read Rilke the more I wonder about Rilke and plants. After 13 years in Germany I don't stop enjoying the line, "Jetzt reifen schon die roten Berberitzen": yet I've not managed to find the plants in the wild here in central Europe. Who has written on Rilke and plants, and on Rilk...

I'd like to inform readers about my ongoing publication of translations of various poems from 'New Poems', which I'm currently publishing on my blog at regular intervals. Online publication must be considered alongside print and ebook translation if The Academy wants to obtain an accurate picture of...

Foremost for the non-German speakers, but also for all those engaging with/studying Rilke's international reception: I've now published online a comparison between what could be seen as a definitive translation by William Gass ~ published as it is in Michael Hofmann's canon forming 'The Faber Book o...

Foremost for the non-German speakers, but also for all those engaging with/studying Rilke's international reception: I've now published online a comparison between what could be seen as a definitive translation by William Gass ~ published as it is in Michael Hofmann's canon forming 'The Faber Book o...

Foreremost for the non-German speakers, but also for all those engaging with/studying Rilke's international reception: I've now published online a comparison between what could be seen as a definitive translation by William Gass ~ published as it is in Michael Hofmann's canon forming 'The Faber Book...

Foremost for the non-German speakers, but also for all those engaging with/studying Rilke's international reception: I've now published online a comparison between what could be seen as a definitive translation by William Gass ~ published as it is in Michael Hofmann's canon forming 'The Faber Book o...

Liebes Forum, dear Forum users, in all this discussion of phonetic aspects of "Blaue Hortensie" - Blue Hydrangea, it's surely worth considering how the poem works phonetically in translation. My experience of translating Blaue Hortensie into English this August (2013) -- a translation whic...