Edwin Ortmann

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Edwin Ortmann (born March 5, 1941 in Munich ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

Edwin Ortmann is the son of a lawyer and grew up in Munich , where he completed high school and a language school. He was studying in Great Britain , France and Spain . He worked as a mini-car driver, unskilled worker, impresario, etc. to finance his studies and later his writing. After working as a translator for the Sorbonne , he settled in Munich in 1965 as a freelance translator and journalist . He kicked u. a. with essays on Latin American literature. Ortmann also published literary works from the beginning of the 1980s . In 1980 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Today he lives in Munich and Formentera .

Edwin Ortmann is the author of novels , short stories , essays and radio plays . In addition, he translated from English , French and Spanish until 1981 .

Edwin Ortmann belonged to the Association of German Writers and the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . From 1981 he was a board member of the Association of German Writers in Bavaria and on the board of VS Bayern.

In 1981 he received a grant from the German Literature Fund ; In 1993 he was the town clerk of Semur-en-Auxois .

Ortmann then devoted himself primarily to the medium of radio plays. Most recently: “Die Clowns, die Liebe, der Tod” (SWR 2000); “Soledades - a lighthouse concert” (DLR / NDR 2001); “The longed-for hug - Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel” (NDR / DLR 2001); “The last lighthouse keeper” (SWR / DLR 2003).

In the following years Ortmann turned his back on the literary business. The author plans future publications from the material in his work diaries kept during these years.

Works

Novels and short stories

Radio plays

  • "The roundest story in the world" (NDR / WDR, 1984, radio play of the month)
  • "Alaska: Land under the Skin" (NDR / HR, 1985)
  • "Klaus Störtebeker or Only the Liar comes into the possession of the truth" (NDR / SDR, 1986)
  • "From the eye disease book" (NDR / SDR, 1987)
  • "The Idiot of Love" (RB, 1987)
  • "Eating or being eaten - two women, all in white" (NDR, 1989)
  • "The ear on the table" (Vincent van Gogh, August Strindberg, Paul Gauguin) (SDR, NDR, BR, 1990)
  • "Never again Mozart" (about the odd Mozart) (NDR / SDR, 1991)
  • "The Vacuum Hunters" (SWF / MDR, 1992)
  • "Freedom is not having a choice" (SWF, 1993)
  • "Last Love or the Mirror Trap" (Comedy about the tragedy Guy de Maupassant) (MDR / SDR / NDR, 1994)
  • "Das Reifen zum Biedermann" (about the "German" syndrome based on August Lingner, inventor of Odol - gymnastics father Jahn, inventor of German gymnastics - Hans Groß, inventor of criminalistics) (NDR / SDR / DLR, 1998)
  • "The clowns, love, death" (SWR, 2000)
  • "Soledades - a lighthouse concert" (DLR / NDR, 2001)
  • "The longed-for hug - Lorca Dalí Bunuel" (NDR / DLR, 2001)
  • "The last lighthouse keeper" (feature about Farero and composer Javier de Arevalo) (SWR / DLR 2003)

Translations

  • Bruno Bettelheim : Education for Survival , Stuttgart 1980 (translated together with Rudolf Hermstein and Brigitte Weitbrecht)
  • Bruno Bettelheim: The Birth of the Self , Frankfurt am Main 1995
  • Julien Bigras : Good mother - bad mother , Munich 1975
  • Alphonse Boudard : Heroes on good luck , Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Benjamin Capps : The Great Chiefs , Amsterdam 1978
  • David Cooper : The death of the family , Reinbek near Hamburg 1972
  • Régis Debray : The loner , Darmstadt 1976
  • Carl Djerassi : Oxygen, Weinheim [u. a.] 2001
  • David C. Douglas : Wilhelm the Conqueror, Stuttgart 1966
  • Lawrence Durrell : Greek Islands , Reinbek near Hamburg 1978
  • Hans Jürgen Eysenck : The transparent person , Munich 1983
  • Hans Jürgen Eysenck: The supersensible human being , Munich 1984 (translated together with Bettina Runge)
  • Mark Jury : Gramp , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1983
  • Nigel Harris : The Ideologies in Society , Munich 1970 (translated together with Norbert Wölfl)
  • Jane Jacobs : Stadt im Untergang , Frankfurt (Main) 1970
  • Claude Julien : The American Empire , Berlin [u. a.] 1969
  • Frederick H. Kanfer : Learning Theoretical Basics of Behavior Therapy , Munich 1975
  • Randolph E. Osman : New York , Munich 1969
  • Psychotherapy of Psychoses , Munich 1975
  • Louis de Robien : Russian Diary 1917 to 1918 , Stuttgart 1968 (translated together with Juliane Alfredsson)
  • Ed Sanders : The family , Reinbek near Hamburg 1972
  • Harold Frederick Searles : The psycho-analytical contribution to schizophrenia research , Munich 1974
  • Gail Sheehy : In the Middle of Life , Munich 1976
  • Burrhus F. Skinner : The function of reinforcement in behavioral science , Munich 1974
  • Burrhus F. Skinner: Beyond Freedom and Dignity , Reinbek near Hamburg 1973
  • Burrhus F. Skinner: Science and Human Behavior , Munich 1973

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personal data
SURNAME Ortmann, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich