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Elizabeth Wolff Mayer (1884– 14 March 1970)[1] was a German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians. After emigrating to the United States in the 1940s she used her homes in Long Island and New York City as salons for visiting artists.

Biography

Elizabeth Mayer was born in Germany and spent her early life in Munich. Her father had been chaplain to the Grand Duke of Mecklenberg; she studied music and was a skilled pianist.

She was married to the psychiatrist, William Mayer, and the couple moved to the United States in 1936 in order to flee Nazi persecution.[2][3] Her homes in Long Island and New York City were used as a salon for artists.[4] Between 1939 and 1940, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears stayed at her Long Island Home.[5][6] Britten described her as "one of those grand people who have been essential through the ages for the production of art; really sympathetic and enthusiastic, with instinctive good taste".[7]

She died on March 14, 1970.[2]

Work

In collaboration with Marianne Moore she translated Adalbert Stifter's Bergkristall (Rock Crystal 1945). The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that their translation "reflects the classic perfection of the original."[8]

In collaboration with Louise Bogan she translated Ernst Jünger's The Glass Bees (1961), Goethe's Elective Affinities (1963) and The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella (both in 1 vol., 1971). A New York Times reviewer wrote that the work on Elective Affinities was an "excellent translation--the only readable one I have come across."[9]

With W. H. Auden, she translated Goethe's Italian Journey (1962).[10] Douglas Pringle wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that this was a "very lively translation."[11] She also translated Hans Graf von Lehndorff's Token of a Covenant: Diary of an East Prussian Surgeon, 1945-47 (1965).

She was the dedicatee and recipient of Auden's poem New Year Letter[12][13] and the book that included it, The Double Man (1941). In New Year Letter, Auden described her "learned peacefulness";[12] he regarded her the emotional equivalent of a mother, and was close to her for many years. Near the end of her life he wrote about her (without naming her) in his poem Old People's Home, and in Lines for Elizabeth Mayer, in About the House.[12]

Elizabeth Mayer is the dedicatee of the sixth section, titled "Interlude," of Britten's "Les Illuminations," Op. 18, settings of Rimbaud for high voice and string orchestra.

She was a friend and admirer of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

References

1. ^{{cite news |title=Obituary - Elizabeth Wolff Mayer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/464447019/?terms=%22Elizabeth%2BMayer%22%2Btranslator |accessdate=29 March 2019 |work=Daily News |date=16 March 1970 |location=New York, New York |page=60}}
2. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/15/archives/elizabeth-wolff-mayer-85-germanenglish-translator.html|title=Elizabeth Wolff Mayer, 85, German‐English Translator|date=1970-03-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/47709|title=What W. H. Auden Can Do for You|last=McCall Smith|first=Alexander|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2013|isbn=9781400847976|location=|pages=1|chapter=Love Illuminates Again...|chapter-url=http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10062.pdf|via=Project MUSE and Princeton University Press}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyrb.com/collections/elizabeth-mayer|title=Elizabeth Mayer|website=New York Review Books|language=en|access-date=2019-03-31}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/06/10/auden-britten/|title=When Auden Met Britten|last=Auden|first=W. H.|date=2015-06-10|website=The New York Review of Books|language=en|access-date=2019-03-31}}
6. ^{{cite journal |last1=Bond |first1=Timothy |title=Britten’s music for organ: some new discoveries |journal=The Musical Times |date=2004 |volume=145 |issue=1887 |page=51 |doi=10.2307/4149146 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=13517592&site=ehost-live |accessdate=1 April 2019}}
7. ^{{cite news |last1=Britten |first1=Benjamin |title=Benjamin Britten's Letters, Part Two |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/258017920/?terms=%22Elizabeth%2BMayer%22%2BGerman |accessdate=1 April 2019 |work=The Observer Review |date=9 July 1991 |pages=49-50 |quote=Extracts from 'Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten 1923-45'. To Enid Slater, from Amityville, Long Island, N.Y., 7 November 1939}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30124499/|title=An Exquisite Christmas Tale|last=|first=|date=2 December 1945|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=31 March 2019|via=Newspapers.com}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/18/archives/speaking-of-books.html|title=Speaking of Books|date=1964-10-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
10. ^{{cite news |last1=Nicolson |first1=Harold |title=Goethe's grand tour |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/258832730/?terms=%22Elizabeth%2BMayer%22%2Btranslator |accessdate=29 March 2019 |work=The Observer Weekend Review |date=18 November 1962 |page=26}}
11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30124126/|title=Rediscover Goethe While He 'Finds Himself' in Italy|last=Pringle|first=John Douglas|date=5 March 1983|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=31 March 2019|via=Newspapers.com}}
12. ^1 2 {{cite journal |last1=Waldson |first1=H. M. |title=Auden and German Literature |journal=Modern Language Review |date=April 1975 |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=347-365 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=17408032&site=ehost-live |accessdate=29 March 2019 |issn=0026-7937}}
13. ^{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Alexander McCall |title=What W. H. Auden Can Do for You |date=2013 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400847976 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_ziYMVkQHWsC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22Elizabeth+Mayer%22+German+translator&source=bl&ots=CGPIK3Jw2_&sig=ACfU3U2LB-uMwjUp5XKgPWRCz4CIa0Y7cQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigxamNyKfhAhUMcCsKHcziCiE4ChDoATAQegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22Elizabeth%20Mayer%22%20German%20translator&f=false |accessdate=1 April 2019}}

External links

  • [https://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=1826&recCount=50&recPointer=4&bibId=4309652 Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer papers in Yale University Library (concerning translation and editorial work, circa 1933-1977)]
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