Andreas corner

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Andreas Eck (* 1957 in Wuppertal ) is a German translator .

Life

Andreas Ecke completed a degree in German , Dutch and musicology . He worked as a bookseller for a long time . Today he lives as a freelance translator in Bonn .

Andreas Ecke translates narrative works and non-fiction books from Dutch into German . In 2010 he received the Else Otten Translator Award for his translation of the novel “Above is it still” by Gerbrand Bakker . In 2016 he received the European Translator Award .

Corner is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Works

  • History of the Dutch language , Bern 1993 (together with Herman WJ Vekeman)

Translations

  • Gerbrand Bakker : June , Berlin 2010
  • Gerbrand Bakker: Komische Vögel , Berlin 2012
  • Gerbrand Bakker: It's quiet upstairs , Frankfurt, M. 2008
  • Gerbrand Bakker: The Detour , Berlin 2012.
  • Martin Bossenbroek : Death at the Cape. The history of the Boer War. Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68812-6
  • Jan Caeyers : Beethoven , Munich 2012
  • Hendrik Floris Cohen : The Second Creation of the World , Frankfurt 2010 (translated together with Gregor Seferens )
  • Peter Drehanns : Always buried , Munich 2009
  • Samuel Dresden : Holocaust and Literature , Frankfurt am Main 1997 (translated together with Gregor Seferens)
  • Hermann Walther von der Dunk : Cultural history of the 20th century , 2 volumes. Munich 2004
  • Anne-Gine Goemans : Gleitflug , Berlin 2012
  • Otto de Kat : Julia , Berlin 2010
  • Otto de Kat: Man in the Distance , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Otto de Kat: Longing for Cape Town , Frankfurt am Main 2006
  • Salomon Kroonenberg : Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur , Darmstadt 2013.
  • Ernest van der Kwast : Five quarters of an hour to the sea . mare-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86648-205-0 .
  • Ernest van der Kwast: The ice maker , novel. btb-Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-75680-3 .
  • Geert Mak : The Bridge of Istanbul , Munich 2007
  • Geert Mak: In Europa , Munich 2005 (translated together with Gregor Seferens)
  • Geert Mak: My Father's Century , Berlin 2003 (translated together with Gregor Seferens)
  • Geert Mak: Netherlands , Munich 2008 (translated together with Gregor Seferens)
  • Cees Nooteboom : Africa, Asia, America, Australia , Frankfurt am Main 2004 (translated together with Helga van Beuningen )
  • Cees Nooteboom: On the other cheek of the earth , Frankfurt, M. 2008 (translated together with Helga van Beuningen)
  • Cees Nooteboom: Tumbas , Munich 2006
  • Steffie van den Oord : Westerbork Girl , Berlin 2010
  • Rascha Peper : Visions of Hanna , Hamburg 2006
  • Paul Scheffer : Tolerance in a Boundless World , with an introduction to the new edition (translated with Gregor Seferens, Heike Baryga and Gerd Busse), Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25182-3 .
  • Jaap Scholten : Achtzig , Stuttgart 1998 (translated together with Gregor Seferens)
  • Pieter F. Thomése : Izak , Berlin 2006
  • Pieter F. Thomése: Schattenkind , Berlin 2004
  • Henk van Woerden : Ultramarine , Berlin 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literarisches Colloquium Berlin - Andreas Ecke receives the Else Otten Translator Prize 2010
  2. ↑ Wuppertal's Andreas Ecke receives the European Translator Award. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed April 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Corner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal