Christiane Körner

Christiane Körner (* 1962 in Recklinghausen ) is a German literary translator from Russian.

life and work

Körner studied German , Slavic and political science at the Universities of Cologne and Frankfurt am Main . She was 1990-1993 DAAD - Lecturer in Moscow. She has been a freelance translator from Russian since 1999 . a. Works by Lev Tolstoy , Dmitri Prigow , Vladimir Sorokin and Nadeschda Mandelstam translated into German.

Körner primarily translates fiction , essays , non-fiction , art literature and fairy tales , with a particular interest in contemporary literature , fantastic literature and slang texts .

In 2013, Körner ran a "Russian-German workshop for literary translators" from the "ViceVersa" series, the German Translation Fund, together with Irina Alexejewa in Straelen . A European College of Translators , EÜK, was the coordinator, the Goethe Institute Moscow was involved. Another such ViceVersa workshop took place in August 2017 again in Straelen EÜK.

Körner is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ. She lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Honors

• Paul Celan Prize 2017 for outstanding translations as a complete work; In addition, the jury honored the translation of the monumental fragment of the novel The Puppies by Pawel Salzman, published in 2016 , through which Körner succeeds in an admirable manner in reproducing a completely new, cinematic over-precise, perspective splintered language with an almost painful depth of focus in a virtuoso and highly poetic manner.
  • Laudation by Bettina Kaibach on this occasion, and thanks to Körners, in translation , online version, 2018 (text in the print edition in issue 1, 2018 is shortened)

Work (selection)

As a translator

• At least a way out. Stories by contemporary Russian authors. Anthology. dtv bilingual, Munich 2003
• Alissa Ganijewa : The Russian Wall. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014
• Alissa Ganijewa: A love in the Caucasus Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016
• Lidia Ginsburg: Notes of a blockade person . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014
  • Review: Karla Hielscher , on Deutschlandfunk , October 30, 2014
• Nina Lugovskaya: I want to live. Hanser Verlag , Munich 2005
• Nadeschda Mandelstam: Memories of Anna Akhmatova . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011
• Dmitri Prigow: Moscow - Japan and back. Folio Verlag , Vienna 2007
• Pawel Salzman: The puppies. Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2016
• Dmitri Sawizki: A Waltz for K, in Neue Rundschau 4, 2008
• Tatjana Tolstaja : Kys. Rowohlt, Berlin 2003
• Andrej Wolos: The animator. Hanser, Munich 2007

As a co-translator

• Berlin-Moscow - Moscow-Berlin 1950–2000. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2003
• Dream factory communism. Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2003
• Ilya Kabakov: The total enlightenment. Moscow conceptual art 1960–1990. Exhibition Schirn Kunsthalle . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008
• Natalja Goncharova : Between Russian tradition and European modernity. Exhibition catalog. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009
• (with Annelore Nitschke ) Jochen Hellbeck , Ed .: The Stalingrad Protocols . Soviet eyewitnesses report from the battle. Fischer, Frankfurt 2012; also Gutenberg Book Guild
• Viktor Erofejew : Preparation for the orgy. DuMont, Cologne 2000
• Ilya Kabakov presents: the life and work of Charles Rosenthal . Stroemfeld , Frankfurt 2000
• (with Sabine Baumann ) Vladimir Nabokov : Alexander Puschkin: " Eugene Onegin . A novel in verse" . Commentary and register. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt 2009
• (with Olga Radetzkaja) Olga Slawnikowa : 2017. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016
• Vladimir Sorokin: Telluria. KiWi , Cologne 2015
• Lev Tolstoy: For every day. A book of life. CH Beck, Munich 2010

As editor and translator

• (Ed. With Natalija Nossowa) The error. Stories from the 1930s and 1940s. Ošibka. Russkie rasskazy dtv bilingual, Munich 1999
• Russian folk tales. Narodnye russkie skazki. dtv bilingual, Munich 2002
• The most beautiful proletariat in the world. Young storytellers from Russia. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2017