Annette Kopetzki
Annette Kopetzki (* 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German literary translator who translates in particular from Italian .
Life
Kopetzki studied German , philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg . In 1980 she passed her state examination . From 1980 to 1992 she worked in Italy as a lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Chieti-Pescara and the University of La Sapienza in Rome . She also worked as a freelance journalist for German newspapers and magazines and radio . From 1990 to 1992 she was a lecturer at the Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori (college for translators and interpreters ) in Rome.
In 1995 she completed her doctorate at the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on language-theoretical and aesthetic problems of literary translation. From 1995 to 2000 she worked as a lecturer at the same institute and gave seminars a. a. on the history of translation theory and problems of literary translation.
Kopetzki has worked in Hamburg as a freelance literary translator and reviewer for numerous well-known German publishing houses (including Rowohlt , CH Beck , Hoffmann & Campe ) since 1998 .
She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works (VdÜ) and a founding member of the Weltlesebühne e. V.
Jury activity
In 1999 and 2005 Kopetzki was a member of the jury for the Hamburg Prize for Literature and Literary Translations . She is a permanent member of the jury of the Erlangen Literature Prize for Poetry as Translation .
Translations
Annette Kopetzki has works a. a. Translated into German by Pier Paolo Pasolini , Andrea Camilleri , Alessandro Baricco , Edmondo De Amicis , Roberto Saviano and Erri De Luca .
Own publications
- Take your word for it. Linguistic theory and aesthetic problems of literary translation , Metzler & Poeschel, Stuttgart 1996
- Literary translation , Metzler, Stuttgart 2003 (with Friedmar Apel )
Awards
- 1998, 2003, 2016: Hamburg Prize for Literary Translations
- 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018: Working grants from the German Translation Fund eV
- 2019: Paul Celan Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Annette Kopetzki in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kopetzki in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kopetzki, Annette |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |