Elisabeth Borchers

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Elisabeth Borchers (born February 27, 1926 in Homberg , Niederrhein ; † September 25, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer and literary translator .

Life

Elisabeth Borchers grew up in Homberg and lived with her grandparents in Niederbronn in Alsace during the Second World War . The family later fled to Weißenau in Upper Swabia . From 1945 to 1954 Borchers worked as an interpreter for the French occupation forces. They married in 1946 and divorced in 1957. From 1958 to 1960 she stayed in the USA . In 1959 she worked for Inge Aicher-Scholl at the Ulm School of Design . From 1960 to 1971 Borchers worked as an editor at Luchterhand-Verlag . In 1971 she moved to Suhrkamp und Insel Verlag in the same position , where she stayed until 1998.

She wrote volumes of poetry and numerous children's books . She is also known as the editor of a large number of literary anthologies with texts for children and adults. She translated from French, including the novel Paulina 1880 by Pierre Jean Jouve .

Borchers was a member of the PEN Center Germany , the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and the Else Lasker Student Society .

Elisabeth Borchers died in 2013 at the age of 87 and was buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery.

Awards

Works

  • Poems , Neuwied a. Rh. [Et al.] 1961
  • Bi Be Bo Ba Bu - the hedgehog children , Hamburg [ao] 1962 (together with Dietlind Blech)
  • The old car , Gütersloh 1965 (together with Werner Maurer)
  • Night of ice. Scenes and Games , Neuwied [ua] 1965
  • And above the sun swims away , Munich 1965 (together with Dietlind Blech)
  • Journey with Samuel , Recklinghausen 1967
  • The table we're sitting at. Poems , with illustrations by Günter Bruno Fuchs , Neuwied [ua] 1967
  • The red house in a small town , Munich 1969
  • A happy family and other prose , Neuwied [et al.] 1970
  • Mr. Elf and his eleven daughters , Munich 1971 (together with Ursel Maiorana)
  • Papperlapapp, says Mr. Franz, the racing driver , Munich 1971 (together with Renate Sellig)
  • When Zaddelpaddel came , Frankfurt am Main 1972 (together with Erna de Vries)
  • The festival of the great Rüpüskül or help, stop the thief! , Frankfurt am Main 1972 (with Jacques-Henri Lartigue )
  • Schöne Schnee , Munich 1972 (together with Anna Robeck)
  • The fairy tale of the magnificent falcon and other Russian fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main 1974 (together with Iwan Bilibin )
  • Wassilissa, die Wunderschöne and other Russian fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main 1974 (together with Iwan Bilibin)
  • Das Bilderbuch mit Versen , Frankfurt am Main 1975 (with Nicola Bayley )
  • Today I wish for a hippopotamus , Frankfurt am Main 1975 (together with Wilhelm Schlote)
  • A Russian legend , Frankfurt am Main 1975 (together with Iwan Bilibin)
  • Poems , selected by Jürgen Becker , Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Letters to Sarah , Frankfurt am Main 1977 (together with Wilhelm Schlote)
  • The drawing lesson , Frankfurt am Main 1977 (with Wilhelm Schlote)
  • Lectori salutem , Mainz 1978
  • Paul and Sarah or When two want something , Frankfurt am Main 1979 (together with Wilhelm Schlote)
  • The birthday book for children , Frankfurt am Main 1982 (together with László Varvasovszky )
  • The Animal King and Friends (with illustrations by Louise Brierley ). Insel Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-458-32322-8
  • A Christmas Dream , Munich 1984 (with Friedrich Hechelmann )
  • Who lives. Poems , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • From today's grammar. Poems , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • What's the answer. Poems , Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Everything speaks, is silent and calls. Collected poems , selected and with an afterword by Arnold Stadler , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • A story on earth. Poems , Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Not to be redeemed , Frankfurt am Main 2002 (together with Jörg Kitta-Kittel)
  • Light worlds. Darkened rooms - Frankfurt poetics lectures , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Time. Time - Poems , Frankfurt am Main 2006
  • 88 poems. Selected poems , Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86337-034-3
  • Not intended for publication. A fragment . Edited and with an afterword by Martin Lüdke , weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2018 (posthumous), ISBN 978-3-86337-103-6
  • The sun swims away at the top . Poems for children, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-423-64056-5

Editing

  • The cornflowers and the cities , Stierstadt im Taunus 1962 (together with Peter Hamm)
  • For Eduard Reifferscheid , Berlin [et al.] 1969
  • A lumberjack broke into a peaceful family , Gütersloh 1971
  • The great Lalula and other poems and stories from morning to evening for children , Munich 1971
  • A fish named Fasch and other poems and stories by people and other people , Munich 1972
  • German poet fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • And now and then a white elephant , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • The Christmas Book , Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • The book of love , Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • Hans Carl Artmann : Poems about love and viciousness , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • The island book of dreams , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • The very useful memo book for birthdays , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • The Christmas book for children , Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • Dear mother , Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Günter Eich : February 29 , Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • The Advent Book , Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • German fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • The island book for children , Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • The poetry album , Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • In the Century of Women , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Reading between the years , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Reading between the years , Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Luchterhands loose-leaf poetry , Darmstadt [ao]
    • Vol. 1. 1966 - 1968 , 1983
    • Vol. 2. 1968-1970 , 1983
  • Love stories , Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • To the moon , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz : love stories , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Reading book for children , Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • German poems , Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Year in, year out , Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Poems by famous women , Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz: Poems , Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz: A lot of courage in the world , Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • This is the nightingale, it sings , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2004 ( Insel-Bücherei 1250) - ISBN 3458192506

Translations

  • Richard Adams : The Journey of the Two Tigers , Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Janine Aeply: Rendez-vous , Neuwied a. Rh. 1961
  • Maria Enrica Agostinelli: One big, the other small , Munich 1970
  • Maria Enrica Agostinelli: I know something you don't know , Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • Nicola Bayley: Seventy-seven animals and an ox , Frankfurt am Main 1977 (translated together with Maria Dessauer)
  • Albert Cullum: The geranium on the windowsill is dying and you just keep going, teacher! , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Marguerite Duras : Ach, Ernesto , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Kate Greenaway : Buttercup Garden , Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • Kate Greenaway: Mother Goose or The Old Nurse Rhymes , Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • Pierre Jean Jouve : Paulina 1880 , Neuwied [et al.] 1964
  • Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Mayakowski : Father buy me a horse , Munich 1972
  • Jacques Prévert : Christmas guests , Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Marcel Proust : The Indifferent , Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin : The fairy tale of Tsar Saltan, of his son, the famous and powerful Prince Gwidon and of the beautiful swan princess , Frankfurt am Main 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Elisabeth Borchers
personal data
SURNAME Borchers, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg (Duisburg)
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2013
Place of death Frankfurt am Main