Akın Kanat

Akın Kanat (* 1966 in Izmir / Turkey ) is a translator of numerous German-language written works into Turkish.

Life

Akın Kanat was taken to Germany by his parents the year he was born , where they found employment as guest workers . The family lived here in Paderborn until 1983 and then returned to Turkey. Kanat graduated from Bonifatius secondary school with the qualification B and continued his education in the German department of the Aegean University in Izmir , which he completed in 1989. After military service in 1990, he found employment with various foreign trade companies in Turkey and then turned to his real passion in 2000: the German language. Akın Kanat now works - on behalf of well-known publishers in the country - as a translator of German books. Since then he has also been working as a freelance sworn translator.

Works

Translations into Turkish

• “Xanthippe and Socrates. A contribution to higher historical gossip, ”Michael Weithmann
• "The Myths of Ancient Japan", Nelly Naumann
• "Odyssey", Manfred Wöhlcke
• “Pharaoh Cheops and the magician. Ancient Egyptian fairy tales and stories ", Karlheinz Schüssler ( ISBN 3-7175-2022-9 of the original edition)
• “Stories”, Gustav Schwab
• “The Philosophers of the 20th Century”, Margot Fleischer
• "Philosophical Faith", Karl Jasper
• "Descartes and Philosophy", Karl Jaspers
• “Truth and Science. Prelude to a philosophy of freedom ”, Rudolf Steiner
• “The anti-burnout success program”, Helmut Kolitzus
• "Totem and Taboo", Sigmund Freud
• "Writings on love and sexuality", Sigmund Freud
• "The Interpretation of Dreams", Sigmund Freud
• "The right measure or the art of self-restraint", Peter Uffelmann - Tobias von der Recke
• “The 16 motives for life. What really drives us ”, Helmut Fuchs - Andreas Huber
• “Good is better than perfect. The art of making your life easier ”, Doris Märtin
• "Consequence. Parents learn what children need ”, Hermann Liebenow
• “Inventing stories with children”, Sylvia Görnert-Stuckmann
• “Support left-handed children properly. With lots of practical tips, ”Sylvia Weber
• “Recognizing and accompanying the gifted”, Monika Jost
• “Recognizing learning difficulties early in pre-school and elementary school age”, Karlheinz Barth
• "Introduction to experiential education", Bernd Heckmair - Werner Michl
• “The Führer State. National Socialist Rule until 1945 ”, Norbert Frei
• "The air traveler", Robert Schneider
• “Troy. How it really looked ", Birgit Brandau, Helmut Schickert, Peter Jablonka
• “A clear case ?!”, Jürg Obrist
• "Body intelligence", Marianne Koch

Translations of English and French titles from the German-language editions

• “The Lady of the Camellias”, Alexandre Dumas
• "Red and Black", Stendhal
• “Beyond the Chains of Illusion”, Erich Fromm
• "Boys. How they grow up happily, ”Steve Biddulph