Egon Strohm

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Egon Strohm (born October 24, 1904 in Trossingen ; † May 2, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer and primarily literary translator .

Life

Egon Strohm came from a brewery family that ran the Zum Bären brewery (later the Bärenbrauerei) in Trossingen. In 1935 he was with the dissertation The British Empire as an economic entity on the trade-Hochschule Mannheim - in the 1933 Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg incorporated - for Dr. oec. PhD .

From the 1930s Egon Strohm lived in Berlin, where he mainly worked as a radio reporter. He married the English opera singer Margery Booth (1905–1952), who celebrated successes at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin and at the Bayreuth Festival , but also acted as a British spy . Uncovered and imprisoned towards the end of the war, she nevertheless managed to escape from Germany. At this point, however, the marriage with Egon Strohm was already broken, so that the divorce followed shortly after the end of the war .

In 1946 Egon Strohm published Painful Journey , a development novel about a student of economics who discovered writing for himself. The plot, set in the 1920s and 1930s, contains clear biographical references, but at the same time was primarily designed to come to terms with the past . In addition, Strohm created several radio plays for radio . Occasionally he was also seen as an actor, for example directed by Irving Pichel in the role of Cardinal Hieronymus Aleander in the German-US film production Martin Luther (1953).

However, Egon Strohm became known to a wide reading public as a translator. From 1953 to the end of the 1970s he created the German-language versions of numerous bestsellers of their time, above all by Juliette Benzoni , Gavin Lyall , John Masters , James A. Michener and Robert Ruark . Strohm translated works by Frank Yerby particularly often . But the German versions of the bestseller Jaws of Peter Benchley and Watership Down by Richard Adams come from him. Strohm mostly worked for the publishing houses Blanvalet and Scherz , later also for Ullstein .

Egon Strohm died on May 2, 1983 at the age of 78 in Berlin.

Works

  • The English empire as an economic entity . Dissertation. Funk, Berlin 1934

novel

  • Painful journey , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1946

Radio plays

  • Immortal Eulenspiegel
  • Mirror and reflection
  • Heartbeats of time
  • Oblomov

Translations

  • Richard Adams : Down at the river ( Watership Down ), Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1975
  • Marvin H. Albert : Ypsilon ( The Gargoyle Conspiracy ), Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1975
  • Christine Arnothy : Der Gefangene Kardinal ( Le Cardinal prisonnier ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1965
  • Peter Benchley : The great white shark ( Jaws ), Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1974
  • Juliette Benzoni : Cathérine de Montsalvy ( Cathérine des grands chemins ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1968
  • Juliette Benzoni: Cathérine and the time of love ( Cathérine et le temps d'aimer ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1969
  • Juliette Benzoni: Marianne. A star for Napoleon ( Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1970
  • Kay Boyle : Generation without Farewell ( Generation Without Farewell ), Scherz, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1962
  • John Braine : Because some are in the dark ( The Vodi ), Scherz, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1960
  • Myron Brinig : Die Frauen der Greenshields (The Looking Glass Heart), Blanvalet, Berlin 1959
  • Martin Caidin : We advance into space ( Worlds in Space ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1955
  • Richard Condon : Only Money Counts ( Mile High ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1970
  • Edwin Corley : The Jesus Factor ( The Jesus Factor ) Del Rey, Berlin 1971
  • Geoffrey Cotterell : Tiara Tahiti ( Tiara Tahiti ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1964
  • Monica Dickens : Follyfoot, the horse farm ( Follyfoot ), Universitas, Berlin 1972
  • James Garrett : The fame of a thousand battles ( And Save Them for Pallbearers ), Scherz, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1960
  • Martin Gumpert : You are younger than you think ( You Are Younger Than You Think ), together with Gottfried Beutel , Scherz & Goverts, Stuttgart and Hamburg 1953
  • Norman Hartley : The Wiking process ( The Viking Process ) - together with Ursula Bergmann, Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1978
  • Donald E. Keyhoe : Outer Space Comes Closer (Flying Saucers from Outer Space), Blanvalet, Berlin 1954
  • Alexander Lake : Beasts jump at you. The sensational truth about lurking beasts and lying hunters ( Killers in Africa ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1953
  • Gavin Lyall : The hard side of heaven ( The Wrong Side of the Sky ), Del Rey, Berlin 1964
  • Gavin Lyall: The most dangerous Opposite ( The Most Dangerous Game ), Del Rey, Berlin 1965
  • Gavin Lyall: July! Watch out! ( Shooting Script ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1967
  • Gavin Lyall: Venus with gun ( Venus With Pistol ), Del Rey, Berlin 1971
  • John Masters : Fern, fern der Gipfel ( Far, Far the Mountain Peak ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1957
  • John Masters: The Deceiver ( The Deceivers ), Del Rey, Berlin 1958
  • John Masters: Lotos und Wind ( The Lotus and the Wind ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1959
  • John Masters: Fandango Rock ( Fandango Rock ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1960
  • John Masters: Die Venus von Konpara ( The Venus of Konpara ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1961
  • John Masters: Der Weg nach Mandalay ( The Road Past Mandalay ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1964
  • Michiro Maruyama : Anatahan. Insel der Unseligen ( Anatahan ), together with Walter Kolbenhoff , Blanvalet, Berlin 1954
  • Charles Mercer : Rachel Cade ( Rachel Cade ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1957
  • James A. Michener : The Bridges at Toko-Ri ( The Bridges at Toko-Ri ), S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1953
  • James A. Michener: Sayonara ( Sayonara ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1954
  • Edgar Mittelholzer : Kaywana ( Children of Kaywana ), together with Georg Goyert , Blanvalet, Berlin 1954
  • Edgar Mittelholzer: Glowing Shadows ( Shadows Move Among Them ), Claassen, Hamburg 1957
  • Christopher Nicole : Shadows in the Jungle ( Ratoon ), Universitas, Berlin 1963
  • Mark Oliver : When Flamingos Fall (When Flamingos Fall), Blanvalet, Berlin 1971
  • Ann Pinchot : The men Slayer ( The Man Chasers ), Del Rey, Berlin 1972
  • John B. Priestley : Surprised by the night ( Benighted ), Nest, Nuremberg 1953
  • Garland Roark : To forget ( Should the Wind Be Fair ), together with Thomas Burger , Universitas, Berlin 1962
  • RB Robertson : Men and Whales. Eight months as a doctor among whalers ( Of Whales and Men ), Ullstein, Berlin 1955
  • Robert Ruark : The Black Skin ( Something of Value ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1956
  • Robert Ruark: Uhuru ( Uhuru ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1962
  • Robert Ruark: Honey sucker ( The Honey Badger ), Del Rey, Berlin 1966
  • Robert Ruark: Safari ( Use Enough Gun ), together with Werner von Grünau , Blanvalet, Berlin 1968
  • Paul Scott : The Chinese pavilion of love ( The Chinese Pavilion Love ), Del Rey, Berlin 1962
  • Irwin Shaw : The Young Lions ( The Young Lions ), Fun & Goverts, Stuttgart and Hamburg 1953
  • Sidney Sheldon : A Stranger in the Mirror ( A Stranger in the Mirror ), Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1977
  • Roderick Thorp : Hartnäckig ( The Detective ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1968
  • Irving Wallace : The Black President ( The Man ), Droemer / Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1965
  • Frank Yerby : Der Schatz vom Sacramento ( The Treasure of Pleasant Valley ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1956
  • Frank Yerby: Kapitän Rebel ( Captain Rebel ) Blanvalet, Berlin 1957 (later under the title A Gentleman from New Orleans )
  • Frank Yerby: Lord of White and Black ( Fairoaks ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1958
  • Frank Yerby: Der Stab und die Schlange ( The Serpent and the Staff ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1959
  • Frank Yerby: The House of the Jarretts ( Jarrett's Jade ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1960
  • Frank Yerby: Gillian ( Gillian ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1961
  • Frank Yerby: Die Ehre der Garfields ( The Garfield Honor ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1962
  • Frank Yerby: The fate of the Griffins ( Griffin's Way ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1963
  • Frank Yerby: In the shadow of the old gods ( The Old Gods Laugh ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1965 (later under the title Villalonga )
  • Frank Yerby: Ein Ruch von Heiligkeit ( An Odor of Sanctity ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1967 (later under the title Der lurid call of sin or an odor of holiness )
  • Frank Yerby: Play me the song of love ( Speak Now ), Blanvalet, Berlin 1972

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data according to Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1984 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1984, pp. 1201–1202 and 1383
  2. ↑ Vanessa Allen: Revealed: British opera singer turned spy who performed for Hitler with secret documents hidden in her underwear . In: Daily Mail , online version 10 September 2010; Retrieved December 7, 2014
  3. ↑ NN: WWII knicker spy Margery Booth photos to be auctioned . BBC News of September 10, 2010; Retrieved December 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Strohm, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Trossingen
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1983
Place of death Berlin