Alexandra Beilharz

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Alexandra Beilharz (* 1963 in Tübingen ) is a German translator of French literature, non-fiction books and films and a Romance writer .

biography

Alexandra Beilharz is the daughter of the novelist Richard Beilharz and the sister of the actress Corinna Beilharz .

After graduating from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg , she completed a three-year professional training course as a fashion designer at the Lette-Verein in Berlin. She then studied Romance Studies and Latin American Studies at the Universities of Free University Berlin and Paris IV Sorbonne . PhD scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1995 she did her doctorate under Peter Brockmeier with a thesis on the reception of the works of the Marquis de Sade in French literature of the decadence and fin de siècle . From 1995 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Romance Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She has been working as a freelance editor and translator since 2004.

Translations (selection)

  • Frédéric Lenoir : Wisdom and how to find it . Reclam, Stuttgart, 2019, 109 pages, ISBN 978-3-15-011216-8
  • Martin Legros: "What is fair? On John Rawls ' theory of justice". In: Philosophy Magazine , 04/2019.
  • Elisabeth Badinter : "Mothers are mediocre!" Translated from d. French by Alexandra Beilharz. In: Why do we have children? Reclam, Stuttgart, 2018. ISBN 978-3-15-020493-1
  • Michel de Montaigne : Essais , in which a translation follows. Texts: "Biography" (Author: Anne-Vanessa Prévost), "Basic Concepts" (Author: Paul Mathias), "Foreword to the Original Text" (Author: Antoine Compagnon ). S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 2016. (Edition philosophy magazine)
  • Tomi Ungerer : Why am I not you? Answers to children's philosophical questions. Translation from French by Alexandra Beilharz, Grit Fröhlich and Margaux de Weck. Zurich, Diogenes, 2016. 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-257-06980-8
  • Rachilde : Monsieur Vénus. Excerpts, trans. by Alexandra Beilharz. In: Rachilde (1860-1953): Female dandyism as a way of life and representation. Edited by Anne-Berenike Rothstein. Böhlau, Cologne & Weimar & Vienna, 2015, ISBN 3-412-50158-1
  • Élémir Bourges : Götterdämmerung . From the French by Alexandra Beilharz, afterword by Albert Gier . Manesse, Zurich, 2013. 480 pp., ISBN 978-3-7175-2262-1
  • The Green Guide French Atlantic Coast. Translation by Alexandra Beilharz and Christa Trautner-Suder. Munich, Travel House Media, 2014. 512 pp., ISBN 978-3-8342-8928-5
  • The Green Guide French Riviera. Translation by Alexandra Beilharz and Andrea Stettler. Munich, Travel House Media, 2012. 480 pp., ISBN 978-3-8342-8947-6
  • The Green Guide Morocco. Translation by Alexandra Beilharz, Daniela Decker, Christa Trautner-Suder. Munich, Travel House Media, 2012. 512 pp., ISBN 978-3-8342-8950-6
  • Jean-Marc Durou: Egypt told for children. Munich, Knesebeck 2010. 78 pp., ISBN 978-3-86873-208-5
  • Alain Korkos: The Was Book . Knesebeck, 2008. 93 pp.
  • Marie Pierre Salé: "The power of the dark. Odilon Redon's strange charcoal drawings" In: Odilon Redon - As in a dream . Edited by Margret Stuffmann and Max Hollein. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2007, pp. 43–49
  • Uwe Ommer : Transit: around the world in 1424 days. Translation by Stefan Barmann, Alexandra Beilharz, Bettina Blumenberg. Taschen, Cologne, 2006. 720 pp., ISBN 978-3-8228-4653-7

Film translations (selection)

  • City country art . Travel magazine on arte, French original title Invitation au voyage (émission de télévision) . Regular collaboration since April 2018; so far approx. 90 translated articles (each 5–12 minutes)
  • On the way to school . Documentary by Pascal Plisson. Contribution to the Locarno Film Festival. 77 min., 2013. (translation for the dubbed version)
  • Next, please! Comedy with Diane Kruger and Dany Boon. Director: Pascal Chaumeil. 104 min. 2012/2013 (translation for the dubbed version)
  • The palace of Sidi Bou Said. Documentary, arte, 2011. (Voice-over)
  • And the marines are dying in front. Report, arte, 2010. (Voice over)
  • Copenhagen and the aftermath. Documentary, arte, 2010. (Voice over)
  • Traveling with Tim and Struppi. Documentary series (episodes 2–5, 43 min each), arte 2010. (Voice over)

Scientific publications (selection)

  • "On the literaryization of obsessions: the doll woman in Felisberto Hernández 'story Las Hortensias (1949)" In: The automated body. Literary visions of the artificial man from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Berlin: Weidler 2005; Pp. 213-227.
  • "Del abuso del ingenio humano - To the criticism of the innovations of the Spanish pulpit eloquence of the 17th century" In: The new: A figure of thought of the modern. Edited by Maria Moog-Grünewald. Heidelberg: Winter 2002; Pp. 209-224.
  • "Le mythe sadien dans la littérature décadente". In: Mythes de la Décadence. Edited by Alain Montandon. Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, 2001. pp. 257-270.
  • "Elémir Bourges, Carlos Reyles et Robert Musil: la décadence entre refus et adaptation de la modernité" In: La main hâtive des révolutions. Esthétique et désenchantement en Europe de Leopardi à Heiner Müller. Edited by Jean Bessière and Stéphane Michaud. Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2001. pp. 55-76.
  • “The reception of Richard Wagner en la poesía española fin de siglo” In: España y Alemania: Interrelaciones literarias. Edited by Eberhard Geisler. Iberoamericana & Vervuert, Madrid & Frankfurt am Main, 2001. pp. 23-35.
  • The decadence and sade. Investigations into narrative texts of the French fin de siècle. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1997. 290 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Decadence and Sade. Investigations into narrative texts of the French fin de siècle. M&P, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-45161-5 (also: Freie Universität Berlin, dissertation, 1995: Sade décadent ).
personal data
SURNAME Beilharz, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator of French literature, non-fiction books and films
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen