Brigitte Jakobeit

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Brigitte Jakobeit (* 1955 in Hirschfeld ) is a multiple award-winning German translator who has been translating English-language literature into German since 1989.

Life and professional activity

Brigitte Jakobeit completed a degree in English , Romance , German and biology . She then worked as a journalist and editor . Between 1987 and 1991 she wrote numerous articles for the taz . In the 1990s and 2000s she wrote articles and reviews for the weekly magazine Die Zeit .

Jakobeit has been translating English-language literature for young people and adults since 1989. She has already translated for the publishers S. Fischer , dtv , Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Suhrkamp and Carlsen . Her best-known translations include the bestsellers The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and the autobiographies of jazz musician Miles Davis and film director Miloš Forman . She has also translated numerous other works by US and British authors into German, including Lorrie Moore , William Trevor , Jules Feiffer , Meg Rosoff , Christopher Isherwood , Valeria Luiselli , Celeste Ng and Patti Smith .

In 2008, the youth book What would be if by the English writer Meg Rosoff , which she translated into German, received the German Youth Literature Prize . In the following year, Damals, das Meer , another work by Meg Rosoff that she had translated, was awarded the Lynx Prize for Children and Young Adults in 2009 , of which Jakobeit has been a member of the jury since 2013. The Single-Rowohlt Foundation honored the translator in 2018 with the highly doped Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize .

Brigitte Jakobeit lives in Hamburg . She is a member of the Association of German Language Translators (VdÜ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 articles by Brigitte Jakobeit. taz.de (archive), accessed on April 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Brigitte Jakobeit. In: perlentaucher.de. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Brigitte Jakobeit. Carlsen Verlag, accessed April 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Susanne Mayer: Der LUCHS des Jahres 2009. zeit.de , November 12, 2009, accessed on April 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Johann Wölper: Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation. In: ledig-rowohlt-stiftung.de. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jakobeit, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschfeld