Welcome to the Website of the Bavarian American Academy
Fifth International Summer Academy
American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective:
Critical Regionalism in Politics and Culture
May 20 - June 3, 2013 in Munich and Nuremberg
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© Isolde Ohlbaum/laif
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We congratulate the author and translator
Eva Hesse to the Leipzig Book Prize 2013
for the best translation.
Eva Hesse, born in Berlin in 1925, makes a name for herself after the war as a translator of Anglo-American poets such as TS Eliot, e.e. Cummings and Robert Frost. Most of her life's work she devotes to the outlawed poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972). In 1993 she obtained as second woman in the history an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. In September 2012 her translation of all "Cantos" was published in a bilingual edition at Arche Verlag.
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In our Eva-Hesse-Archive we offer young translators the possibility to work on their projects.
For an FAZ interview in August 2012 with Eva Hesse click here.
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The Bavarian American Academy (BAA) seeks to support research on or related to the USA and to enhance the interaction between the sciences and culture, society and economy.
Although the primary focus of the Academy's activities is the USA, in the context of interdisciplinary and interregional studies it also supports research on Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The BAA provides a network of cooperation for Bavarian scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences who are specializing in these areas. It aims at coordinating and focusing their respective competencies and resources. The BAA acts as an innovative, comprehensive, inter-university platform for academic and intelectual exchange.
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