Svetlana Geier [SEP] place of death
Svetlana Geier
Svetlana Geier, née Swetlana Michailovna Ivanova, (26 April 1923 in Kiev, USSR – 7 November 2010 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a literary translator who translated from her native Russian into German. She lived in Germany from 1943 until her death in 2010.
Biography.
Svetlana Geier was born in Kiev in 1923, the daughter of Russian parents. Her father was a scientist, his specialty was plant breeding. Her mother came from a family of Tsarist officers. Her father was arrested in
which she could realise her dream of studying languages. Together with her mother, she moved to Guenterstal in Freiburg, and started her studies in Literature and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Freiburg in 1944. After her marriage she took her husband’s name, Geier. She had two children and lived in Guenterstal until her death in 2010.
In 1960 Svetlana started teaching Russian at the University of Karlsruhe. From 1964 onwards she had a contract to teach for eight hours a week. She took the train to Karlsruhe one