Eike Schönfeld
Eike Schönfeld (born April 3, 1949 in Rheinsberg ) is a German German philologist , English scholar , folklorist , translator and author .
Life
Eike Schönfeld was born in Rheinsberg, Brandenburg, in 1949. He studied German, English and folklore in Freiburg im Breisgau . His English studies took him to England in the 1980s, where he financed his studies as a bartender .
In 1982 he successfully applied to the European College of Translators , EÜK, in Straelen , for which he worked for four years. As a freelance translator, Eike Schönfeld had lived in Hamburg for a long time since 1986. Schönfeld is a member of the Association of German Writers as well as its "Bundessparte Translators", the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, for which he often organized events.
During his 25 years as a translator, Schönfeld translated works and letters by Vladimir Nabokov , JD Salinger , Jeffrey Eugenides , Joseph Conrad , Oscar Wilde , Katherine Mansfield , Henry Fielding , Jerome Charyn , Steven Millhauser , Nicholson Baker , Martin Amis , Richard Yates , Sherwood Anderson , JG Ballard , Sloan Wilson , Sylvia Plath and Charles Darwin .
Schönfeld lives in Paris .
Prices
- 1997: Hamburg Prize for Literature and Literary Translations
- 2004: Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize
- 2008: Barthold Heinrich Brockes grant from the German Translation Fund
- 2009: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair (Category: Translation )
- 2013: Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Award
- 2014: Calwer Hermann Hesse Prize , together with Nicholson Baker
Works (except translations)
- Straelen, the beginnings, in: Sovereign bridge builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators. Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Special issue of Language in the Technical Age , SpritZ, Ed. Thomas Geiger u. a. Böhlau, Cologne 2014 ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN 0038-8475 pp. 197-201
- Obituaries for Klaus Birkenhauer , in Translate , Zs. Des VdÜ, special supplement to issue 1, 2001. Besides Schönfeld, Claus Sprick , Inge von Weidenbaum , Christa Schuenke , Helmut Frielinghaus and others pay tribute to one of the founders of the EÜK .
- As Darwin Really wrote - and what we read, Die Welt , Literatur, November 27, 2018 online
Web links
- Literature by and about Eike Schönfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
- Schönfeld in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönfeld, Eike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheinsberg |