Daniela Kocmut

Daniela Kocmut

Daniela Kocmut (born April 26, 1980 in Maribor , Slovenia ) is a bilingual Austrian - Slovenian writer and translator .

Life

From 1991 she grew up in Hermagor, Carinthia . She has lived in Graz as a translator since 1999 and teaches Slovene at Urania and in “treffpunkt sprachen” at the University of Graz . Kocmut studied translation studies in Graz and Dublin . So far, some of her literary translations from Slovenian into German have been published (by Drago Jančar , Maruša Krese , Katarina Marinčič , Veno Taufer , Marjan Tomšič , Zofka Kveder, among others ).

Daniela Kocmut has received several translation grants, including a. the BMUKK work grant for translation 2009.

Since 2013 she has been the workshop manager of the international translation project "Trans-Star Europe". Kocmut writes poetry in German and Slovenian. She is also editor of the international literary magazine Lichtungen .

Works

As an author

• bilingual . Poetry. Leykam, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7011-7883-4 .

As a translator

• Stanka Hrastelj. Anatomy in the room poems Slovenian / German. German first edition . Vienna, Ed. Correspondence 2013, ISBN 978-3-902951-00-7 .

• Drago Jančar: Luzia's eyes . Stories (OT: Človek, ki je pogledal v tolmun). Folio-Verlag, Vienna - Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-3-85256-312-1 (together with Klaus Detlef Olof ).
• Drago Jančar: The tree without a name . Roman (OT: Drevo brez imena). Folio-Verlag, Vienna - Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-85256-527-9 .
• Drago Jančar: The night I saw her . Roman (OT: To noč sem jo videl). Folio-Verlag, Vienna - Bozen 2015, ISBN 978-3-85256-670-2 (together with Klaus Detlef Olof ).
• Drago Jančar: When love rests. Roman (OT: In Ljubezen tudi.) Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05950-4 .
• Maruša Krese: All my wars or happiness is a warm gun . Leykam, Graz 2006, ISBN 978-3-7011-7561-1 .
• Zofka Kveder: Your life . Roman (OT: Njeno življenje). Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-99029-059-0 .
• Katarina Marinčič: The hidden harmony . Roman (OT: Prikrita harmonija). Kitab, Klagenfurt - Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902585-11-0 .
• Veno Taufer: Waterlings. For my mother and my father . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-380-1 .

Awards

• 2013: Literature Prize of the Steiermärkische Sparkasse.

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniela Kocmut in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Daniela Kocmut on the website of the Leykam-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glades - Contact. LICHTUNGEN - magazine for literature, art and contemporary criticism, accessed on January 9, 2020 .