Elmar Tophoven

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Elmar Tophoven (born March 6, 1923 in Straelen ; † April 23, 1989 ibid) was a German translator .

Life

Elmar Tophoven was the son of a doctor . After he had passed the school leaving examination in 1942 , he participated as a soldier in World War II , during which he was taken prisoner by the French . After the end of the war , Tophoven studied theater studies and Romance studies at the University of Mainz . In 1949 he went to Paris , where he worked as a lecturer for German at the Sorbonne until 1952 . After starting to translate literary texts from French and being in close contact with Samuel Beckett , Tophoven lived as a freelance translator in Paris. From 1970 to 1988 he taught German at the École Normale Supérieure . In addition, he campaigned for the interests of translators: it was largely his initiative that led to the establishment of the “ European College of Translators ” in Straelen.

Elmar Tophoven translated (partly together with his wife Erika Tophoven ) a large part of Samuel Beckett's work, as well as works by Alain Robbe-Grillet , Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon, among others , into German. In 1972 he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . He has been a member of this academy since 1977. In 1988 he received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Honors

Translations

  • Arthur Adamov : Plays , Darmstadt [a. a.] 1959 (translated together with Manfred Fusten and Pierre Aron)
  • Jean Anouilh : Life is unheard of! , Munich [u. a.] 1987 (translated together with Corona Schmiele)
  • Fernando Arrabal : Baal Babylon , Neuwied [u. a.] 1964
  • Georges-Albert Astre : Ernest Hemingway in personal testimonies and photo documents , Reinbek b. Hamburg 1961
  • Jean-Louis Barrault : Rabelais , Frankfurt a. M. 1971
  • Samuel Beckett : Nude Without Words , Stuttgart 1965
  • Samuel Beckett: Aschenglut , Stuttgart 1970 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: From an abandoned work and short games , Frankfurt a. M. 1966 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: The Outcast , Hamburg 1976
  • Samuel Beckett: Fragments I and II , Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Samuel Beckett: Le dépeupleur , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Samuel Beckett: Disjecta , Berlin 2010 (translated together with Erika Tophoven and Wolfgang Held )
  • Samuel Beckett: "Endgame" and "All who fall there" , Frankfurt / M. 1957 (translated together with Erika Schöningh)
  • Samuel Beckett: First Love , Frankfurt a. M. 1973
  • Samuel Beckett: Stories and Texts About Nothing , Frankfurt a. M. 1962
  • Samuel Beckett: Film. Hey, Joe , Frankfurt a. M. 1968 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: Flötentöne , Frankfurt am Main 1982 (translated together with Karl Krolow )
  • Samuel Beckett: Gedichte , Wiesbaden 1959 (translated together with Eva Hesse )
  • Samuel Beckett: Society , Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Samuel Beckett: Happy Days and Other Pieces , Frankfurt a. M. 1963 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: Coming and Going , Stuttgart 1968 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: The Last Volume , Frankfurt am Main 1974 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: Mal vu mal dit , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Samuel Beckett: Malone dies , Frankfurt a. M. 1958
  • Samuel Beckett: Mercier and Camier , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Samuel Beckett: Murphy , Hamburg 1959
  • Samuel Beckett: The Nameless , Frankfurt a. M. 1959
  • Samuel Beckett: square. Geister-Trio , Frankfurt am Main 1996 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: Residua , Frankfurt a. M. 1970
  • Samuel Beckett: Spiel , Berlin 1996 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: That time , Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Samuel Beckett: Three occasional pieces , Frankfurt am Main 1983 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: Tritte , Frankfurt am Main 1976 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Samuel Beckett: To end again and other failures , Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot , Berlin 1953
  • Samuel Beckett: Watt , Frankfurt a. M. 1970
  • Samuel Beckett: How it is , Frankfurt a. M. 1961
  • Simone Benmussa : Childhood , Berlin (Dahlem) 1988
  • Daniel Boulanger : The Shadow , Munich 1960
  • Daniel Boulanger: The Black Door , Munich 1965
  • Daniel Boulanger: The daring , Munich 1963
  • Emile M. Cioran : The Missing Creation , Frankfurt am Main 1986 (translated together with François Bondy )
  • Georges Conchon : The Ashes of Victory , Cologne [u. a.] 1961
  • Louis-René Des Forêts : The Schwätzer , Munich 1968
  • Petru Dumitriu : The boyars , Frankfurt a. M.
    • 1. The family jewelry , 1960
    • 2. Joys of Youth , 1962
  • Petru Dumitriu: Inkognito , Frankfurt a. M. 1963 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Marguerite Duras : The Man in the Corridor , Berlin 1982
  • France , Munich 1955 (translated together with Leo Winter)
  • Eugène Ionesco : Journeys to the Dead , Berlin 1982
  • Claude Mauriac : A Dinner in the City , Hamburg 1960
  • Claude Mauriac: The marquise went out at five o'clock , Hamburg 1962
  • Claude Rich : A Rock for Winter , Bad Homburg vdH 1980 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet : The Eyewitness , Munich 1957
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: Djinn , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Blind or The Jealousy , Munich 1959
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: Snapshots , Munich 1963
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: The defeat of Reichenfels , Munich 1960
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Immortal , Munich 1964
  • Nathalie Sarraute : The golden fruits , Cologne 1964
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Do you hear that? , Cologne 1973
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Childhood , Cologne 1984
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Martereau , Cologne 1959
  • Nathalie Sarraute: The Planetarium , Cologne 1960
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Portrait of an Unknown , Cologne 1962
  • Nathalie Sarraute: "Say the fools" , Cologne 1978
  • Nathalie Sarraute: The Silence , Neuwied 1965
  • Nathalie Sarraute: It is there , Bad Homburg vdH 1980
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Der Wortgebrauch , Cologne 1984
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Between Life and Death , Cologne 1969
  • Geneviève Serreau : A dam on the Pacific , Frankfurt am Main 1960
  • Claude Simon : The grass , Neuwied [u. a.] 1970 (translated together with Erika Tophoven)
  • Claude Simon: The Palace , Munich 1966
  • Claude Simon: The street in Flanders , Munich 1961
  • Henri Thomas : Das Kap , Munich 1963
  • Jean Vauthier : Theater plays , Neuwied 1961 (translated together with Edwin Maria Landau and Herbert Meier )
  • Jacoba van Velde : The great hall , Wiesbaden 1955
  • Louise Weiss : To the Unborn , Wiesbaden 1980 (translated together with Erika Tophoven-Schöningh)
  • Monique Wittig : Opoponax , Reinbek 1966

literature

  • Erika Tophoven : Happy years . Berlin 2011
  • Nicole Colin, Corine Defrance , Ulrich Pfeil , Joachim Umlauf Eds .: Lexicon of German-French cultural relations after 1945. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2012, p. 455f .: Elmar Tophoven , by Jürgen Ritte (available in Google books )
  • Sigrid Kupsch-Losereit: Elmar Tophagen's concept of transparent translation, in The HOW of translating. Contributions to historical translator research. Series: TRANSÜD. Work on the theory and practice of translation and interpreting. Ed. Aleksey Tashinskiy, Julija Boguna. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, pp. 113–126

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tophoven, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Straelen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1989
Place of death Straelen