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MARCELO BACKES is an author, translator, editor and essayist. He was born in 1973 in Campina das Missões, Brazil. Backes studied Journalism and Brazilian Literature, then in 2004 completed a doctorate in German and French Studies at Freiburg University. He has publisdhed numerous essays and reviews. His first publication, Bertolt Brecht, appeared in 1998 as a special number of the Porto & Virgula series produced by the Cultural Department of the city of Porto Alegre. In 2004, together with Rolf G. Renner, he published an anthology of 20th century German short stories, Escombros e caprichos: o melhor do conto alemão no século 20 (Porto Alegre, L&PM, 2004); for this anthology he not only translated fifty four stories but also provided detailed commentaries on them. In addition he has published works by some twenty classic and contemporary representatives of Brazilian and world literature, and translated the works of more than fifteen German and Austrian authors — largely in the context of annotated editions — including Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka, Arthur Schnitzler, Bertolt Brecht, Ingo Schulze, Juli Zeh and Thomas Brussig. Several of these editions have won prizes.
A arte do combate. Lazarus über sich selbst. Heinrich Heine als Essayist in Versen Estilhaços: minigâncias-digressões-e-batocaços. maisquememória
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