Anne Birkenhauer

Anne Birkenhauer (born August 10, 1961 in Essen ) is a German translator from Hebrew .

Life

Anne Birkenhauer was born in Essen in 1961. In 1980 she went to Israel as part of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace and learned Hebrew there. In 1983 she returned to Germany and began studying Jewish and German studies at the Free University of Berlin . After completing her master's degree , she moved to Jerusalem and initially worked as a research assistant at the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University there , then for three years as a lecturer at the interpreting school at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan . At the same time she started translating. The first translation appeared in 1990 poems by Dan Pagis . Birkenhauer gives lectures on the translation of Hebrew literature and has been running the German-Hebrew translators' workshop (together with Gadi Goldberg) as part of the ViceVersa program of the German Translation Fund since 2011 . In the winter semester 2014/2015 she was August Wilhelm von Schlegel visiting professor for poetics of translation at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin. She lives and works in Israel.

Birkenhauer is a great niece of the journalist and KPD politician Erich Birkenhauer (1903–1941). Her father, the translator Klaus Birkenhauer (1934–2001), founded the European Translators' College in Straelen in 1978 together with Elmar Tophoven . At the beginning of her career as a translator, Anne Birkenhauer used the pseudonym Dina Brauer once , after her father and her great-uncle had both published under the pseudonym Erich Brauer .

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

Awards (selection)

• 2010: Albatros Literature Prize , together with the author David Grossman , for the novel A woman flees from a message
• 2011: Jane Scatcherd Prize for the translation of A Woman Flees From A Message
• 2014/2015 (winter semester) August Wilhelm Schlegel visiting professorship at the Free University of Berlin , Peter Szondi Institute, by the German Translation Fund
• 2015: Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for translation "for their diverse translations from Hebrew"
• 2016: Paul Celan Prize for her complete works, with special recognition for her translation of the novel A Horse Comes to the Bar by David Grossman
• 2018: German-Hebrew translator award for her translation of David Grossman's novel Come a Horse to the Bar (together with Nili Mirsky as translator into Hebrew)
• 2018: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Translated authors (selection)

Aharon Appelfeld , Chaim Be'er , Daniella Carmi , David Grossman , Ilana Hammerman, Jehoschua Kenaz , Otto Dov Kulka , Eshkol Nevo , Gershon Shaked , Sara Shilo , Aryeh Sivan, Moshe Zemer ; also adaptations and translations of and in anthologies.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Birkenhauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Birkenhauer in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anne Birkenhauer ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Portrait at the Peter Szondi Institute of the FUB, accessed on June 30, 2016 
2. ↑ "Merits to Hebrew Poetry" on boersenblatt.net, November 14, 2014, accessed on July 3, 2016
3. ↑ Birkenhauer, Anne in Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms , accessed on July 3, 2016
4. ^ Translator Anne Birkenhauer honored on boersenblatt.net, June 30, 2016, accessed on June 30, 2016
5. ^ German-Hebrew translator award for Anne Birkenhauer on boersenblatt.net, July 16, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018
6. ↑ Awarding of the medal on the Day of German Unity. In: bundespräsident.de. October 2, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018.
7. ^ Paul Celan Prize to Anne Birkenhauer on buchmarkt.de, June 30, 2016, accessed on June 30, 2016