Rolf A. Leemann

neu:

ROLF A. LEEMANN, MA Comparative Literature, U of Illinois, Urbana
rolf.leemann@gmail.com

EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

1978 Preliminary Exam for Doctorate in Comparative Literature, ABD
1977 MA in Comparative Literature, „with flying colours" (Prof. H. Knust).
Studies included German, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan, and (in translation) Persian (Hafiz) and Hindi literature (Kalidasa e.a.) .
Honor Societies:
Phi Delta Phi (French)
Phi Kappa Phi (Interdisciplinary).
1964-1975 University of Zurich, Switzerland
Student worker; Romance Lang. & Literatures, mainly Fr. and It.
Essay on Flaubert accepted as “Thèse excellente" by Georges Poulet.
Prize-winning paper on Alessandro Manzoni:
Paesaggio e struttura in “I Promessi Sposi," with Prof. Reto Bezzola.
1968/69 Université de Caen, France
concentrating on Translation (French/German)
1963 Winterthur Music Conservatory, Switzerland
Theory Diploma (w. Ernst Hess)
1961 Oberseminar Zürich, Switzerland
Elementary School Teaching Diploma

WORK EXPERIENCE

2009 Teacher of English at University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, CH:
1964-1975 / 1981-2005 Teacher of French and Italian at Gymnasiums in Winterthur
1991 Colloquium taught at Zürich University: Contemporary American Poetry:
1992 Raymond Carver, story and poem
1988-2009 Teacher of Spanish at Technikum Winterthur (later U of Applied Sciences)
French and Italian, 1988-2009 (occasionally)
1981 Courses taught at University of Illinois, Urbana, USA:
German 100/200, French 123,134, 215, 217 Italian 100, 400
1975 Volkshochschule Winterthur (Continuing Education Program):
Littérature et Société (un regard sur la littérature qui se fait en France)
1961-1964 Elementary School Teacher in Oberwinterthur (4th through 6th grade)

PUBLICATIONS

Academic:

1980 „Josep Carner: The Elegiac Tendancy“ in: Segon col.loqui d’estudis catalans a Nord America
(Paper given in English at Yale, 1979)

Extracurricular

2009 CD Booklet for Sergio Cárdenas, Composer, Music Director, Mexico City
1996 CD Booklet for Walther Giger, Composer, Zurich, Switzerland
1976- pres.: German, French, Italian, English, Spanish poems passim, among which
- English poems in Matrix I –VIII, Urbana, Plainsong, Bowling Grenn, KY
- Spuren, Fährten, Zeilensptrünge, with Rudolf Deertz, artist (2000, ed. Michael Wissmann, Uster, CH)
- German poems in Winterthur anthologies (1986, 1992, ed. Gerhard Piniel und Beat Schenk)
- Italian poems in Algol (Bologna, 1994), Voci Nostre (Ancona, 1994)

s. also this Site "lyrik online" - http://lyrik.ch/leemann/index.htm - Site hosted by Skepsis Verlag, Zurich

PRESENTATIONS AND TANSLATIONS

2003 Richard Powers; author of the System Novel Gain (talk given at ZHAW)
1990 Isidro Fernández-Blasco, artist (Cáceres, Spain, Frauenfeld, CH, 1995)
1990 Rolf Forster, artist (Frauenfeld)
1991 Elsbeth Pfenninger-Holzhey, writer (Solothurner Literaturtage)
1983 and 1985 Kathy Rose; transl. of performance reviews in French papers
1979 Prof. Carl Dahlhaus, translation of his Millercom Lecture „The Idea of
Absolute Music“ at U of I, Urbana, IL
1973 Philippe Jaccottet, poet, novelist, translator at Lit. Vereinigung, W’thur

Readings: Winterthur (1) Zurich (2), Urbana (2, one of which at U of I Radio)

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS in Port Townsend, WA, USA