Chapter 38 Translator's Notes on "Haina and Revolution" [1]

Translator's Notes on "Haina and Revolution" [1] This article was published in a German-language daily on February 21 in 1931, the seventy-fifth anniversary of Heiner’s death, and was later written by Gao Chongyang.[2] The Japanese translation was included in "Study on Haina", and it is retranslated here based on it today.From such a short text, it is naturally not enough to know the poet's life, but I think I can at least understand (1) Heiner, who has always been regarded as a poet of love by us, has a revolutionary side; (2) Germany's oppression of literature , has never been relaxed, Kurtz [3] and Hitler [4] are just people who have intensified at the end of the period; (3) but Heiner still exists forever and is more brilliant, while the official group of "authors at that time "But even the name is "forgotten before it is remembered." [5] This may be of some significance to readers.On September 10, 1933, the translation was completed and recorded.

※ ※ ※ [1] This article together with German O.The translation of Biha's "Hina and Revolution" was originally published in the first issue of the fourth volume of the "Modern" monthly magazine in November 1933. Heine (H. Heine, 1797-1856), translator of Heine, German poet and political commentator. He is the author of a political treatise "On the History of German Religion and Philosophy" and a long poem "Germany—A Winter's Fairy Tale" and so on. 〔2〕Gao Chongyang, a Japanese art theorist.Author of "Marx and Engels Art Theory", "Historical Prospect of European Literature and Art" and so on.

〔3〕Kulz (W. Kulz, 1875-1948), a member of the German Social Democratic Party of Congress from the 1920s to the 1930s, once served as the Minister of the Interior. 〔4〕Hitler (A. Hitler, 1889-1945) interpreted Hitler, the leader of the German Nazi Party, and one of the culprits of the Second World War.After becoming prime minister in 1933, fascist rule was implemented and progressive books were burned, and Heine's works were banned. [5] The words quoted here are from the second section of the article "Heiner and the Revolution".