Dagmar Ploetz

Dagmar Ploetz (born September 12, 1946 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Dagmar Ploetz lived in Argentina from 1948 to 1965 . She later completed a degree in German and Romance languages at the University of Munich . She then worked as a publishing editor and freelance journalist . Since 1984 she has been a freelance translator from Spanish. Ploetz lives in Munich . She is married to the writer Uwe Timm . Her grandfather is Alfred Ploetz , who founded eugenics in Germany and coined the term “racial hygiene”.

Dagmar Ploetz has emerged with transcriptions of works by Spanish (including Rafael Chirbes and Juan Marsé ) and Latin American authors (especially Gabriel García Márquez ) as well as two biographies on Gabriel García Márquez. In 2005 she received the Jane Scatcherd Prize and in 2012 the Translation Prize of the City of Munich .

Ploetz is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Works

Gabriel García Marquez . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992
Ignazio Silone , Cologne 2000
Gabriel García Marquez. Life and work of Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010 ISBN 978-3-462-04161-3

Editing

No time for tears , Munich 1976 (edited together with Klaus Konjetzky )
Martin Walser , Munich 1989 (edited together with Mechthild Borries)

Translations

Isabel Allende : Von Liebe und Schatten , Frankfurt am Main 1986
Julián Ayesta : Helena or The Sea of Summer , Munich 2004
Gioconda Belli : From a rib of Evas , Wuppertal 1989 (translated together with Anneliese Schwarzer de Ruiz)
Gioconda Belli: I am longing - disguised as a woman , Wuppertal 2003 (translated together with Angelica Ammar)
Carlos Busqued : Under this terrifying sun , Munich 2010
Rafael Chirbes : Old Friends , Munich 2004
Rafael Chirbes: The Fall of Madrid , Munich 2000
Rafael Chirbes: Crematorium , Munich 2008
Rafael Chirbes: The Long March , Munich 1998
Rafael Chirbes: The beautiful font , Munich 1999
Rafael Chirbes: The sedentary traveler , Munich 2006 (translated together with Willi Zurbrüggen )
Jorge Díaz : The unbelievable and sad story of the simple-minded Eréndira and her heartless grandmother , Berlin 1993
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill : The underground battle , Reinbek 2010
Gabriel García Márquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude , Cologne 2017
Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of an Announced Death , Cologne 2006 (translated with Curt Meyer-Clason )
Gabriel García Márquez: Memory of my sad whores , Cologne 2004
Gabriel García Márquez: The General in his Labyrinth , Cologne 1989
Gabriel García Márquez: Life to Tell About It , Cologne 2002
Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the times of cholera , Cologne 1987
Gabriel García Márquez: Love tirade against a seated man , Cologne 1989
Gabriel García Márquez: News of a kidnapping , Cologne 1996
Gabriel García Márquez: About love and other demons , Cologne 1994
Gabriel García Márquez: Twelve stories from abroad , Cologne 1993 (translated together with Dieter E. Zimmer )
Irritation and Creativity , Zurich [u. a.] 1993
Valeria Luiselli : The Weightless , Munich 2013
Pedro Mairal : The missing year of Juan Salvatierra , Munich 2010
Juan Marsé : Good news on paper planes , Berlin 2016
Juan Marsé: Calligraphy of Dreams , Berlin 2011
Juan Marsé: Ways of Love in Lolitas Club , Berlin 2007
Juan Marsé: Voices in the Gorge , Munich 2002
Marco Antonio de la Parra : Solo for Carlos and Sigmund , Frankfurt am Main 1987
Manuel Puig : Under a starry tent , Frankfurt am Main 1986
Juan Rulfo : Pedro Páramo , Munich 2008
Our song will not fall silent , Munich 1976 (translated together with Gerda Schattenberg)
Mario Vargas Llosa : La Chunga , Frankfurt 1988
Mario Vargas Llosa: Das Fräulein von Tacna , Frankfurt 1985

Web links

Ploetz in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ, 2019
Press release by the City of Munich about the awarding of the Munich Translator Prize to Dagmar Ploetz ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual proof

↑ Uwe Timm in the WDR 5 radio broadcast Uwe Timm and his novel “Ikarien” on May 10, 2018 (repeated on June 3, 2018, 11 p.m.), which was a moderated reading of his then most recent novel Ikarien at the “ Lit.Cologne Spezial “Broadcast in October 2017; see Icaria .

personal data
SURNAME	Ploetz, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German translator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herrsching am Ammersee

[wdr5-1] Uwe Timm in the WDR 5 radio broadcast Uwe Timm and his novel “Ikarien” on May 10, 2018 (repeated on June 3, 2018, 11 p.m.), which was a moderated reading of his then most recent novel Ikarien at the “ Lit.Cologne Spezial “Broadcast in October 2017; see Icaria .