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Frank Beck
@diehoren.bsky.social
I am a writer and translator. My most recent project is 'Anneliese's House' by Lou Andreas-Salomé, which I translated with Raleigh Whitinger. The profile image is from the wallpaper in William Morris's drawing room. My website is www.diehoren.com.
More about the film here:
www.diehoren.com/2018/04/lou-...
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
In her 2016 film, 'Lou Andreas-Salome: The Audacity to Be Free', Cordula Kablitz-Post imagined what the photo session was like. (The first 30 seconds are from rehearsal; Alexander Scheer, who played Nietzsche, added the background music when he posted this.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uB3...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you haven't liked the Proust you've seen in English so far, you might try Charlotte Mandel's translation of 'In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom' (Oxford World Classics) -- the second volume of 'In Search of Lost Time'. No English writer has captured Proust's tone and diction so well.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is the latest version of the text, edited by Christoph Koenig and published by Wallstein in 2023. As can see, it's available in electronic form:
wallstein-verlag.e-bookshelf.de/duineser-ele...
Duineser Elegien - ISBN: 9783835385344 - (ebook) - von Rainer Maria Rilke, Christoph König, Verlag: Wallstein - Details - Wallstein Verlag eBooks
Duineser Elegien - ISBN: 9783835385344 - (ebook) - von Rainer Maria Rilke, Christoph König, Verlag: Wallstein
wallstein-verlag.e-bookshelf.de
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I hope you'll take the opportunity to hear Rilke in his own language, with which his voice is so thoroughly caught up. Here's are a few lines from the First Duino Elegy, read by Irene Laett, with my translation.
www.diehoren.com/2016/05/the-...
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's Dwight Garner's review in the NY Times. I've gifted the article, so there's no paywall:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM