Anke Caroline Burger

Anke Caroline Burger (also: Anke Burger , * 1964 in Darmstadt ) is a German translator .

Life

Anke Caroline Burger studied American , German and Journalism at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Texas in Austin , from which she graduated in 1994 with a master's degree. She has been working as a translator from English since 1992. Until 2002 she lived in San Francisco , California , and since then she has lived in Berlin and Montreal with her husband, the artist Chris Salter .

In addition to narrative literature, she translates non-fiction books from the fields of popular culture and photography .

Anke Caroline Burger is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, for which she works on a voluntary basis in the editorial department of the trade journal Translate , for the sections "Portraits and Reviews".

In 2003, Burger was awarded the Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Prize.

Works

• Mambos and mammies. Black Women in American Fiction 1985-1991 . Berlin Contributions to American Studies , 3rd John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin , Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-88646-038-X
• The magazine "Der Translators" - "Translate": for 50 years the mouthpiece of literary translators, in Sovereign Bridge Builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators VdÜ. Special issue language in the technical age , SpritZ. On behalf of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works - Federal Department of Translators of the VS in ver.di , Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Böhlau, Cologne 2014 ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN  0038-8475 pp. 173-185
• Graphic Novels in Canada . An interview with Helge Dascher. In: Translate 2, 2017

Editor

• Canada for hand luggage. Stories and reports. A cultural compass . Row: books for hand luggage. (Anthology) Unionsverlag , Zurich 2010, unv. New edition 2018

Translations

• Tahmima Anam : time of promises. Insel Verlag , Berlin 2010. (Also as In the name of my children. Berlin 2011)
• Tahmima Anam: The Last True Story. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018
• Nigel Barley , Bali - The Last Paradise. Stuttgart 2015
• Christine Bell : Like kisses from angels. Munich 1996
• Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, June. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2017 
• Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Bittersweet . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2015
• Tom Bouman: At dawn ( Fateful Mornings ). Cadolzburg 2018 (with Anna-Christin Kramer)   
• Art Brewer : Bunker Spreckels Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2007 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Cars of the 50s. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2009 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Christmas. Cologne [u. a.] 2005 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• The Circus. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2008 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Jim Crace : City of Kisses. Munich 2004
• Luke Crampton : Bob Dylan. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2009 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Tim Daly : Handbook of digital photography. Cologne 2000
• James Dashner : The Chosen . Vol. 1.2. 3. 4. Hamburg (Vol. 3 and 4 with Katharina Hinderer)
• Michelle De Kretser : The Hamilton Case. Stuttgart 2006
• Design for Obama. Cologne 2009 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Stephen Emmott : Ten billion. Suhrkamp , Berlin 2013
• Richard Paul Evans : The Miraculous Box. Munich 1996
• Candice Fox : Hades , Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2016
• Candice Fox: Eden , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016
• Candice Fox: Fall , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017
• Myla Goldberg : Just a drop of luck. Munich 2006
• The golden age of advertising. Cologne
  • The 70s. 2006
• LeRoy Grannis : Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s. Cologne [u. a.] 2006 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Norman Green : Totally illegal. Frankfurt am Main 2004
• Mark Haddon : The sore point. Munich 2007
• Halloween. Cologne [u. a.] 2005
• Titania Hardie : The Labyrinth of Roses. Munich 2008
• Charlaine Harris : Death in Shakespeare. Hamburg 2004
• Elizabeth Hay : Night Radio. Frankfurt 2010
• Burton Holmes : Travel Reports. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2006
• Hot rods & custom cars. Cologne [u. a.] 2004
• Hugh Hefner 's "Playboy" . Hong Kong
• Japanese beauties. Cologne [u. a.] 2004
• Japanese Graphics Now! Cologne 2003
• Adam Johnson : The robbed life of the orphan Jun Do. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013
• Adam Johnson, Nirvana , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015
• Manu Joseph : Serious men. Stuttgart 2010
• Ginu Kamani : Junglee Girl. Bern [u. a.] 1999
• Las Vegas. Cologne [u. a.] 2003
• Ken Lawson : The Beginner's Guide to Careers. Munich 2001 (translated under the name Anke Burger, together with Astrid Bangert).
• Norman Mailer : Moonfire. Cologne 2010 (translated under the name Anke Burger, together with Dirk van Gunsteren )
• Rani Manicka : Daughters of the Monsoon. Frankfurt am Main 2004
• William Leonard Marshall : Manila Bay. Zurich 2000
• Jon McGregor : Speicher 13. Liebeskind , Munich 2018
• Jon McGregor: Lastly, the dogs. Berlin 2011
• Jon McGregor: After the rain. Stuttgart 2005
• Jon McGregor: Either way. Stuttgart 2007
• Bill Moody : Looking for Chet Baker. Zurich 2004
• Bill Moody: Bird lives! Zurich 2006
• Bill Moody: Moulin Rouge, Las Vegas. Zurich 2002
• Bill Moody: Solo hand. Zurich 2001
• Mary Morris : Sleepless Nights. Munich 1995
• Ottessa Moshfegh : My year of rest and relaxation , Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2018
• Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen , Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95438-081-7 .
• Ottessa Moshfegh: McGlue. Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2016
• Emily Perkins : The Forrests. Berlin 2012
• The polaroid book. Cologne [u. a.] 2005
• Kevin Reagan : Alex Steinweiss. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2009 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Nina Sankovitch : Tolstoy and the purple armchair. Munich 2012 (translated together with Susanne Höbel)
• David Schickler : Big chunks. Munich 2005
• Joe Schreiber : Bye bye, crazy chick! Berlin 2011
• Danzy Senna : Snow in Alabama. Munich 1999
• 70s cars. Cologne [u. a.] 2006 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Elaine Showalter : Hystories. Berlin 1997
• 60s cars. Cologne [u. a.] 2005 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Darcey Steinke : Blond poison. Munich 1993
• Mike Stocks : White man falls. Zurich 2010
• Sarah Stone : A love in Africa. Frankfurt (Main) 2003
• Andy Summers : I'll be watching you. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2007 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Surfing. Cologne [u. a.] 2004
• Mario Testino : Rio de Janeiro. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2009
• 1000 clowns more or less. Cologne [u. a.] 2004
• Valentines. Cologne [u. a.] 2005
• Vintage surfing. Hong Kong [u. a.] 2009
• Lane from the heart : The trees on the edge of my street. Munich 1996
• Mary Willis Walker : Let the dead rest. Munich 1998
• Mary Willis Walker: Predator Feeding. Munich 1994 (translated under the name Anke Burger)
• Mary Willis Walker: The Red Scream. Munich 1996
• Mary Willis Walker: Under the Beetle's Cellar. Munich 1996
• Tod Wodicka : The American Knight. Stuttgart 2009
• Shawn Wong : With and without chopsticks. Munich 1998
• Helen Zahavi : Donna and the fat man. Zurich 2000

Web links

• Author's website
• Literature by and about Anke Caroline Burger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Burger in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
• Burger , in an interview with Regine Elsässer : No more reports under € 200! Translate , Zs. Des VdÜ, 1, 2015, p. 6f.

notes

1. ↑ mainly contains novel excerpts and short stories by 13 classic Canadian authors that have already been translated elsewhere. Table of contents at the German National Library for the new edition. 2018. The excerpts come mainly from books, each of which has been published in full by Unionsverlag; . or is works that Burger has translated itself (for example, Elizabeth Hay, for the Schöffling publishing . Ferner: Sinclair Ross, The lamp at noon , stood first in Canadian narrator , Manesse 1967; Madeleine Ferron, sugar maple , first in Explorations. 26 Canadian Narrators , 1986).