Claudia Hamm

Claudia Hamm (* 1969 in Jena ) is a German translator , theater director , author and speaker.

Life

Claudia Hamm left the GDR with her family in 1983 and studied philosophy and German at various locations. From 1999 Claudia Hamm worked as a theater director and dramaturge for the Deutsches Schauspielhaus , the barracks at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Vienna Burgtheater , and the Lucerne Theater . She developed her own plays with the theater company 15febbraio / Turin, which were mainly performed in France and Italy.

She was a lecturer for interdisciplinary forms of expression and dramaturgy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Free University of Berlin , she also appears as a speaker and in reading performances with musicians and visual artists, her main focus is on autobiographical texts as an art of memory and readings as a separate stage format.

Hamm works as a translator of French and Italian plays and novels. In 2016 she received the literary prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft , translation section, for her complete works. She was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2016 for the German version of Emmanuel Carrère's "Das Reich Gottes".

Claudia Hamm is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ. She lives in Berlin.

Works

• Who does a translated text belong to? Literary translator before, during and after translating. Lecture at "ilb 18," Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , September 12, 2018 full text (further printed version in: Merkur. German Journal for European Thinking , April 4, 2018, pp. 42 - 52)
• with Sonja Finck : Self-fiction, foreign fiction and the holes in the text, language in the technical age , SpritZ, 230, June 2019, pp. 159 - 171 (about Annie Ernaux , Emmanuel Carrère)

Translations (selection)

• Emmanuel Carrère : Limonow . (Limonov, 2011) Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-88221-995-1
• Édouard Levé : suicide . (Suicide, 2008) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-88221-591-5
• Édouard Levé: Autoportrait . (Autoportrait, 2005) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-88221-068-2
• Emmanuel Carrère: Davos . In the Disneyland of the great. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013
• Emmanuel Carrère: Everything is true . (D'autres vies que la mienne, 2009) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-88221-951-7
• Mathias Énard : The alcohol and the sadness . (L'alcool et la nostalgie, 2011) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-95757-349-0
• Emmanuel Carrère: The Kingdom of God . (Le Royaume, 2014) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-95757-226-4
• Emmanuel Carrère: A Russian Novel. (Un roman russe, 2007) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-95757-363-6
• Emmanuel Carrère: Letter to a zoo keeper from Calais . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-95757-448-0
• Joseph András: The wounds of our brothers. Novel. Carl Hanser, Munich 2017 ISBN 978-3-446-25641-5

Stage works (selection)

• Pane Quotidiano (2001), direction + translation (with Valentina Kastlunger) of Daily Bread by Gesine Danckwart, WP ITC Teatro di San Lazzaro / Bologna.
• Servizio di pulizia o Il corpo sociale (Service de nettoyage ou le corps social / die putzen) (2007), text + direction, WP Festival Les Informelles / Théâtre des Bernardines, Marseille.
• still live (2011), text + direction + translation into French, WP Festival delle Colline Turin.

Web links

• Hamm in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019, with a complete list of their translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MDR culture meets ...: Claudia Hamm ( memento of the original from September 3, 2017 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. . MDR culture . Retrieved July 8, 2017. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} ´Still Live´, Villa Méditeranée Marseille on 9/24/2013 . Retrieved September 25, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b} ´service de nettoyage ou le corps social´ in Aix-en-Provence on January 28th, 2010 . Retrieved September 25, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} ´Pane quotidiano´, ITC Teatro di San Lazzaro, November 23-30, 2003 . Retrieved September 25, 2017.
5. ↑ Claudia Hamm receives the 2016 Translator Award ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cultural group of the German economy . Retrieved July 8, 2017. 
6. ↑ Translation Prize from the German Business Culture Association to Claudia Hamm , in Translate , 1, 2017, p. 7.
7. ^ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair, Archive, 2016 , Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair . Retrieved October 2, 2017