Burkhart Kroeber

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Burkhart Kroeber with Susanne Höbel (left) and Sibylle Cramer

Burkhart Friedrich Ernst Kroeber (born July 3, 1940 in Potsdam ) is a German translator and occasional author .

life and work

Kroeber studied Egyptology , Romance studies and political science in Tübingen , Heidelberg and Paris , and received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1968 with the work Die Neuägyptizismen vor der Amarnazeit . Since 1971 he has been translating literary and other books mainly from Italian, namely the works of Umberto Eco (since The Name of the Rose ) and Italo Calvino (since When a Traveler on a Winter Night ). From 1977 to 1982 he was an editor at the Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich . Since the 1990s he has also been working on new translations of various classics, from Alessandro Manzoni's historical novel The Brides to Charles Dickens ' last - unfinished - crime novel The Secret of Edwin Drood and John Steinbeck's travel book The Journey with Charley: In Search of America to Giacomo Leopardis Opuscula moralia and Tomasi di Lampedusas Il Gattopardo .

In addition, he has repeatedly been involved in professional and cultural policy: 1991 to 1997 as chairman of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works (VdÜ), a section of the Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di , 1997 to 2006 on the board of the German Translators' Fund and 2003–2009 as chairman (speaker) of the German Literature Conference . Kroeber is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards and honors

In 1985, Kroeber received the literary prize of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI , in 2001 the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation , in 2006 the Translator Prize of the City of Munich and in 2011 the Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Prize and the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .

In the 2008/2009 winter semester he held the August Wilhelm von Schlegel visiting professorship for the poetics of translation at the Free University of Berlin . In May 2013 he received the German-Italian Translation Prize for his life's work.

Translations since 1982

Umberto Eco

  • The name of the rose . Novel. Hanser, Munich 1982
  • Postscript to the 'Name of the Rose'. Hanser 1984.
  • About God and the world. Essays and glosses. Hanser 1985.
  • About mirrors and other phenomena. Essays. Hanser 1988.
  • The Foucault pendulum . Novel. Hanser 1989
  • Plato in the striptease bar. Parodies and travesties. Hanser 1990.
  • How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Useful Advice (pp. 59–190 only). Hanser 1993.
  • The search for the perfect language. CH Beck , Munich 1994 ("Building Europe" series, edited by Jacques Le Goff )
  • In the forest of fictions. Six forays into literature. Harvard Lectures (Norton Lectures 1992-93). Hanser 1994
  • The island of the previous day . Novel. Hanser 1995
  • Four moral writings. Hanser 1998.
  • Together with Carlo Maria Martini : What does who believe in who does not believe? (translated together with Karl Pichler). Zsolnay , Vienna 1998
  • Lies and irony. Four readings between classic and comic. Hanser 1999.
  • Derrick or the passion for mediocrity. Match letters 1990–2000. Hanser 2000.
  • Baudolino . Novel. Hanser 2001
  • The Books and Paradise: On Literature. Hanser 2003.
  • The mysterious flame of Queen Loana . Illustrated novel . Hanser 2005
  • Quasi the same in other words: About translating. Hanser 2006.
  • Shots with receipt. New match letters. Hanser 2006 *
  • Advancing in the crab. Hot wars and media populism. Hanser 2007.
  • The art of loving books. Hanser 2009.
  • The cemetery in Prague . Novel. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23736-0 .
  • Confessions of a Young Writer. Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature , Hanser 2011
  • The Fabrication of the Enemy and Other Occasional Papers. Hanser 2014
  • Zero number . Novel. Hanser 2015
  • Pape Satan. Chronicles of a Liquid Society or The Art of Understanding the World . Hanser 2017
  • On the shoulders of giants. The beautiful, the lie and the secret (translated together with Martina Kempter). Hanser 2019 *
  • Eternal fascism . With a foreword by Roberto Saviano . Hanser 2020 *
    • [All titles except for those with * also published as paperback by dtv]

Italo Calvino

  • When a traveler on a winter night . Novel. Hanser 1983
  • Mr. Palomar. Hanser 1985.
  • Under the jaguar sun. Three stories. Hanser 1987.
  • Cosmicomics. Hanser 1989; expanded edition All Cosmicomics . Fischer paperback, Frankfurt a. M. 2015.
  • Six suggestions for the next millennium. Harvard lectures. Hanser 1991
  • The Bride Who Lived on Air and other Italian fairy tales, collected and retold by Italo Calvino. Hanser 1993.
  • The garbage can and other stories. Hanser 1994 (under the title The Way to San Giovanni and Other Stories as Fischer Taschenbuch 2016).
  • Collected sand. Essays. Hanser 1995.
  • Hermit in Paris. Autobiographical sheets (translated together with Ina Martens). Hanser 1997.
  • A general in the library and other stories. Hanser 2004.
  • Ludovico Ariost's ›Rasender Roland‹ , retold by Italo Calvino. With selected passages from the original translated into German by Johann Diederich Gries . Eichborn , Frankfurt am Main 2004 ( The Other Library , Volume 232)
  • The invisible cities . Hanser 2007
  • Difficult love affairs. Collected stories. Hanser 2013 (56 stories from the 1940s to 1950s, 12 of which were translated into German for the first time)
    • [All titles except Gesammelter Sand also published by dtv; since 2012 almost all of them in the Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag]

Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini

  • The Palio of the Dead Riders. Novel. Piper , Munich 1986
  • (& Charles Dickens ): The Truth About the D. Roman Case (includes: an integral new translation of the last - unfinished - novel by Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood ). Piper, Munich 1991
  • The color of fate. Narrative. Piper 1991.
  • The secret of the pineta. Novel. Piper 1993.
  • Small holiday brevier. Piper 1994.

Andrea De Carlo

  • Birds in cages and aviaries. Novel. Diogenes , Zurich 1984
  • Cream train. Novel. Diogenes 1985.

Roberto Cotroneo

  • When a kid on a summer morning. Letter to my son about love for books. Marion von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1996. Extended new edition of the 3rd edition: Insel , Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • The lost score. Novel. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1997 (since 1999 also Suhrkamp paperback)
  • Otranto. Novel. Island 1998.

Other authors

Translations before 1982

Ferruccio Rossi-Landi

  • Language as work and as a market. Hanser, RH 105 (only the 2nd, revised edition), Munich 1974.
  • Semiotics, aesthetics and ideology. Hanser, RH 223, 1976.

Henri Lefebvre

  • Critique of Everyday Life , Vol. 2–3. Hanser, RH 143-44, 1975.
  • Metaphilosophy. Prolegomena. Suhrkamp, ​​es 734, 1975.
  • Together with Catherine Régulier: The revolution is no longer what it used to be. Hanser 1979.

Rossana Rossanda

  • About the dialectic of continuity and break. Suhrkamp, ​​es 687, 1975.
  • The long march through the crisis (also edited and incorporated). Suhrkamp, ​​es 823, 1976.
  • Interference. Conversations with women ... (only the introduction). European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1980.

Other authors

  • Antonio Carlo: Political and Economic Structure of the USSR (1917–1975). Dictatorship of the proletariat or bureaucratic collectivism. Wagenbach , Rotbuch 36, Berlin 1972.
  • Noam Chomsky : For reasons of state. Suhrkamp, ​​es 736, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Guy Hocquenghem : The Gay Desire. Hanser, RH 151, Munich 1974.
  • Gilles Deleuze et al. Félix Guattari : Kafka. For a little literature. Suhrkamp, ​​es 807, 1976
  • Galvano della Volpe : Critique of Taste. Draft of a historically materialistic literary theory and aesthetics. Luchterhand, Philos. Texts 7, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1978.

Other works

  • as publisher: Pier Paolo Pasolini : The heart of reason. Poems, stories, polemics, pictures. Wagenbach-Verlag , Berlin 1986, again dtv, 1991
  • as editor: Characters in Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'. Essays from Europe and America. Hanser, Munich 1987, again dtv, 1989
  • The argument about "Lemprière's dictionary". A public excitement with a long reverberation, in language in the technical age , SpritZ, special issue Sovereign Bridge Builders . 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators . Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Böhlau, Cologne 2014 ISSN  0038-8475 ISBN 9783412222840 pp. 73-84 (on the German translation and on the publishing policy in the case of Lawrence Norfolk's book)
  • Obituary for Toni Kienlechner , 1919 - 2010 , in Translate , 1, 2011, p. 13f. Full text
    • numerous other texts in this journal since 1993, using the search engine available there

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German-Italian translator award to Hartmut Köhler: "Impressive Gelehrsamkeit" . Börsenblatt , February 12, 2013
  2. ^ Federal Government ( Memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), press release, February 1, 2013.
  3. ↑ A new classic , essay by Burkhart Kroeber on the reasons for its new translation, 15 years after the previous one. TraLaLit, platform for translated literature. September 19, 2018, last accessed on March 18, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kroeber, Burkhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroeber, Burkhart Friedrich Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam