Barbara Christ

Barbara Christ (* 1962 in Dillenburg ) is a German translator .

Life

Barbara Christ studied theater, German and philosophy in Cologne, Munich and Heidelberg. She then worked in Heidelberg as a dramaturge for drama. In 1996, she received his doctorate there for Dr. phil. with a work on the history and aesthetics of the dramatic fragment , which is also entitled Die Splitter des Seems. Friedrich Schiller and Heiner Müller published by Igel Verlag . The following year, Christ began working as a translator. From 1998 to 2009 she worked as a freelance editor for the publishing house of the authors .

Christ translates primarily theater plays and narrative prose from Great Britain, Canada and the United States. From 2001 she translated novels by the British writer Doris Lessing into German and worked on a 15-volume selection that was published by Hoffmann and Campe in 2007 . She has translated plays by the playwrights David Greig , Daniel Karasik , Anthony Neilson , Bruce Norris and Simon Stephens , among others .

In 2012 and 2014, Christ conducted translation seminars at the theater biennial “ New Plays from Europe ”. She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

Awards

• 2012: Gottsched grant from the German Translation Fund
• 2014: German Youth Theater Award for Monster (The Monster in the Hall) , together with David Greig

Translations (selection)

Novels

• Doris Lessing : Mara and Then. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-04393-3 .
• Jane Smiley : In good faith. Berlin-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8270-0541-8 .
• Doris Lessing: The gap . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3455400752 .
• Doris Lessing: Alfred and Emily . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-40135-6 .
• Rosamund Lupton: Dearest Tess. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-40284-1 .
• Doris Lessing: A sweet dream. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 9783455400700
• Priya Basil : The logic of the heart. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-285-5 .
• Jami Attenberg: The Middlesteins. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-202-2 .
• Russell Banks : Broken. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-122-3 .

Stage plays

• David Greig : The cosmonaut's last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union , 2001
• Simon Stephens : Heron , 2003
• Simon Stephens: Port , 2004
• Simon Stephens: One Minute , 2004
• Simon Stephens: Country Music , 2005
• Simon Stephens: On the Beach of the Wide World , 2006
• Simon Stephens: Motortown , 2006
• David Greig: San Diego , 2006
• David Greig: Remote Islands , 2006
• Simon Stephens: Christmas , 2007
• Simon Stephens: Pornography , 2007
• Simon Stephens: Harper Regan , 2008
• David Greig: Monster , 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Christ in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile at the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house

literature

• Portrait: Barbara Christ , in Translate , 2, 2019, p. 10f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The shards of bill. at Google Books
2. ^ Doris Lessing, obituary by Christ in the TAZ
3. ↑ Barbara Christ
4. ↑ Award ceremony in the historic Kaisersaal