Elisabeth Edl

Elisabeth Edl (born October 16, 1956 in Wagna ) is an Austrian literary scholar and translator .

life and work

Elisabeth Edl's family comes from Prigrevica Sveti Ivan in Vojvodina . Her parents had to leave their homeland for the Soviet Union in 1944 . In 1948 they came to Austria, where they received Austrian citizenship in 1955, so that their daughter Elisabeth, who was born in Styria a year later, was not born stateless .

Edl studied German and Romance studies in Graz, was lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Poitiers from 1983 to 1995 and lecturer at the École Supérieure de Commerce . At the same time, she began to translate French works of the 20th century into German: by Simone Weil , Julien Gracq and by Julien Green, whom she greatly admired . Translations by 19th century authors followed. Today Edl lives in Munich as a Romanist and freelance translator .

Quotes

About Edl's work

“For years now, you have been able to give the advice to a less readership who only reads two or three books a year and doesn't want to be disappointed: Just read everything that Elisabeth Edl translates. In response to the objection of the poor reader that it all comes from French, one can calmly reply that one reads better, more diverse and richer German than often when reading German authors. "

- Andreas Isenschmid : Hanser -author portrait

Edl about her work

“Entering here under the sign of language and poetry is not only an honor and pleasure for me, I could very well imagine this pair of words as a motto for my work. Poetry anyway, but with language in the very practical sense I am perhaps even more directly involved in my profession than my literary colleagues who are strictly academic, because I am not only supposed to understand, interpret and explain literature, but also to recreate it in its linguistic form create."

- Elisabeth Edl : Speech on becoming a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , 2009

Awards

Elisabeth Edl received numerous awards for her translations and annotated editions by French authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Stendhal , Gustave Flaubert , Julien Green, Patrick Modiano and Philippe Jaccottet .

• 1992: Paul Celan Prize , with Wolfgang Matz
• 1994: Petrarca Translator Award , with Wolfgang Matz, for the joint transfer of Simone Weil and Julien Gracq's Cahiers The Great Way. A hiker's diary .
• 2004: Hieronymusring by the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ; she passed the challenge on to Susanne Lange
• 2005: Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation
• 2006: Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation
• 2009: German Academy for Language and Poetry , full member.
• 2009: Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .
• Winter semester 2013/2014: August Wilhelm von Schlegel guest professorship at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin
• 2014: Romain Rolland Prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation for German-French literary translations (at the same time as Bernard Kreiss), which was awarded only once, this year, for her complete work in translation.
• 2018: Prix ​​lémanique de la traduction (at the same time with Jean-Pierre Lefebvre for the opposite direction in translation).

Publications

Essays

• with Wolfgang Matz : history of a manuscript. About Simone Weil's “Cahiers”. In: Bogen 34.Simone Weil. Service to the unconditional. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1991. ISBN 3-446-99058-5 .
• Science and art. Beyond the Limits of Interpretation in Literary Translation. In: In other words. On the poetics of translation. 7 years August Wilhelm von Schlegel guest professorship on the poetics of translation. Marie Luise Knott (ed.). Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-390-4 , pp. 151-171.

Editing

• Colette - from enfant terrible to cult author. Zsolnay, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-55204842-1 .

Translations

• Hélène Berr : Paris Diary 1942–1944. (With a foreword by Patrick Modiano ). Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23268-6 .
• Yves Bonnefoy : Writing with strokes. Poems (= Poetry Cabinet ; Volume 14). Edition Lyrik Kabinett published by Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-938776-33-9 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz).
• Yves Bonnefoy: The long anchor chain. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24132-9 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz).
• Yves Bonnefoy: The red scarf. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26021-4 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• Jacques Chessex : The Vampire of Ropraz. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-312-00416-4 .
• Jean Clair , Thierry Naudin: Brief History of Modern Art. A conversation with Thierry Naudin. Piet Meyer Verlag, Bern / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-905799-48-4 .
• Andrée Collié : Memories of Chaïm Soutine - 1944. Piet Meyer Verlag, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-905799-03-3 .
• Gustave Flaubert : Life and Works of Father Cruchard and other unpublished texts. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-932109-56-0 .
• Gustave Flaubert: Book madness. A story. With vignettes from Wolf Erlbruch . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24103-9 .
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23994-4 .
• Gustave Flaubert: Three Stories. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25659-0 .
• Françoise Frenkel : Nothing to lay your head on. (With a foreword by Patrick Modiano .) Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25271-4 .
• Philippe Garnier: About the lukewarm. Liebeskind publishing house, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-935890-03-6 .
• Julien Gracq : The big way. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-446-17318-8 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz).
• Julien Green : Dixie. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-446-18282-9 .
• Julien Green: End of a world. June 1940. (With a foreword by Elisabeth Edl). List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-471-77699-0 .
• Julien Green: Diaries. Edited with comments by Melanie Waltz and a foreword by Wolfgang Matz.

1. 1981-1990. List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-471-77666-4 .
2. 1990-1996. List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig, 1999, ISBN 3-471-79398-4 .
3. 1996-1998. List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-471-79425-5 .

• Julien Green: Varuna. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-446-18744-8 .
• Julien Green: If I were you. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-446-19781-8 . (Revised translation by Rosemarie von Jankó and Karl Rauch.)
• Julien Green: Adrienne Mesurat . Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-446-19909-8 . (With an afterword by Wolfgang Matz.)
• Julien Green: stranger on earth. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-446-20737-0 . (With an afterword by Wolfgang Matz.)
• Julien Green: memories of happy days . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23058-3 .
• Julien Green: The stranger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23740-7 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz).
• Eric Holder: The pen pal. Novel. Pendo Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-85842-410-2 .
• Eric Holder: Welcome home. Novel. Diana Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-453-18966-3 .
• Philippe Jaccottet : After so many years. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-19484-3 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet: Answers by the wayside. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-446-19995-0 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet: The ignorant. Poems and prose 1946–2001. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-446-20274-9 . (Translations with Friedhelm Kemp , Sander Ort and Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet, Giorgio Morandi : The pilgrim and his bowl. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20579-9 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet: Truinas, April 21, 2001 (= Lyrik Kabinett ; Volume 5). Lyrik Kabinett, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-9807150-7-8 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet: The poetry of French-speaking Switzerland. A bilingual anthology. Verlag Nagel and Kimche, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-312-00407-2 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet: Notes from the Deep. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23287-7 . (Translation with Friedhelm Kemp and Wolfgang Matz.)
• Philippe Jaccottet: Le Combat inégal. La Dogana, Genève 2010, ISBN 978-2-940055-62-3 . (Translations from French, Italian and German, with Fabio Pusterla , and Wolfgang Matz)
• Philippe Jaccottet: sun spots, shadow spots. Saved records 1952-2005. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24769-7 .
• Philippe Jaccottet: Thoughts under the clouds. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26021-4 . (Translated with Wolfgang Matz.)
• François-Bernard Michel: Judith. Novel. Pendo Verlag, Zurich / Munich 1999, ISBN 3-85842-342-4 .
• Patrick Modiano: Dora brother . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19287-5 .
• Patrick Modiano: From deep oblivion. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-446-19848-2 .
• Patrick Modiano: Unknown women. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-446-20134-3 .
• Patrick Modiano: Accident at night. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-446-20716-5 .
• Patrick Modiano: A family tree . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20922-0 .
• Patrick Modiano: Place de l'Étoile. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23399-7 .
• Patrick Modiano: In the Café of Lost Youth . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23856-5 .
• Patrick Modiano: The horizon. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-23951-7 .
• Patrick Modiano: Grasses of the Night . Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 9783446248496 .
• Patrick Modiano: The art of memory. Stockholm speech. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24962-2 .
• Patrick Modiano: So that you don't get lost in the neighborhood . Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24908-0 .
• Patrick Modiano: Sleeping memories. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26010-8 .
• Patrick Modiano: Our beginnings in life. Play. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26011-5 .
• Michel Quint : The terrible gardens. Novel. Goldmann Verlag (btb), Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-75068-7 .
• Michel Quint: Just love a little. Novel. Goldmann Verlag (btb), Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-75092-4 .
• Edmond Renoir: My brother Auguste Renoir - the letter from 1879. (With an afterword by Piet Meyer). Piet Meyer Verlag, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-905799-02-6 .
• Jacques Roubaud : Fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five balls. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-446-20370-2 . (Republished as a licensed edition ud T .: The lost last ball. Roman. Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8031-1264-4 .)
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : The little prince . Arche Verlag, Zurich / Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7160-2643-4 . (Also published by Rauch Verlag, Düsseldorf.)
• Stendhal : red and black . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20485-7 .
• Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20935-0 .
• Jules Verne : Paris in the 20th Century . Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-552-04804-9 .
• Jules Verne: Journey with Obstacles to England and Scotland . Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-552-04861-8 .
• Anne Walter: Farewell to happiness. List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-471-79157-4 .
• Frédéric Wandelère : Help for the weeds. Poems. Munich 2012. (Translated with Wolfgang Matz), ISBN 978-3-446-23868-8 .
• Simone Weil: Cahiers. Records. 4 volumes. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1991–1997 / 98, ISBN 3-446-16431-6 . (Edited and translated with Wolfgang Matz).
  • Vol. 1: Hanser Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-446-25371-8 (softcover), 3-446-15749-2 (fabric).
  • Vol. 2. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-446-25372-6 (softcover), 3-446-15750-6 (fabric).
  • Vol. 3. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-446-25373-4 (softcover), 3-446-15751-4 (fabric).
  • Vol. 4. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1997/1998, ISBN 3-446-25374-2 (softcover), 3-446-19511-4 (fabric).

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Edl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Mayer: In conversation with Elisabeth Edl: “Why don't we know Flaubert yet, Ms. Edl?” In: FAZ , August 31, 2012
• Edl in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Elisabeth Edl: Elisabeth Edl. In: deutscheakademie. 2009, accessed November 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Elisabeth Edl. In: hanser-literaturverlage.de. Retrieved November 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Elisabeth Edl. August Wilhelm von Schlegel visiting professor in the 2013/14 winter semester. In: fu-berlin.de. Retrieved November 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Petrarca Prize website
5. ↑ Elisabeth Edl receives French state award ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
6. ^ Romain Rolland Prize , accessed February 6, 2017