Else Otten
Else Otten (born October 27, 1873 in Amsterdam , † January 22, 1931 in Düsseldorf ) was a Dutch literary translator .
Life
Else Otten was the daughter of a doctor . During Else Otten's childhood, the family of nine changed residence several times; after stays in Zurich , Karlsruhe and Frankfurt am Main , the Ottens lived in Berlin from 1890 . There Else Otten attended grammar school up to subprima . Her wish to study literature at a university could not be fulfilled; instead she went to France , where she perfected her French. After her return to Berlin, she gave private French lessons there and also learned English and Spanish . From 1895 she published translations .
Else Otten maintained contacts with numerous Dutch authors of her time, in particular with the writer Augusta de Wit and the social reformer Frederik van Eeden . From 1911 Else Otten lived in Berlin with the singer Helene Siegfried, and both of them stayed at Siegfried's property, the " Hüsli ", in the Black Forest town of Rothaus .
Else Otten translated numerous narrative works, plays and poems from Dutch into German and thus made an important contribution to Dutch-German literary relations. She also translated from English , French and Spanish . Ottens' translation of the feminist novel "Women Who Heard the Call" by Cécile de Jong van Beek en Donk was particularly successful, as were her translations of the works of the novelist Louis Couperus in the 1920s .
The prize for translations from Dutch into German, awarded every two years by the Flemish Literature Fund and the Dutch Foundation for Literature , has been named " Else Otten Prize " in memory of her .
Translations
- Jo van Ammers-Küller : Masquerade , Leipzig 1929
- Jo van Ammers-Küller: The silent fight , Leipzig 1928
- Leo Balet : Under the spell of vocation , Kempten 1920
- Thorkil Barfod: The Blue Butterfly , Berlin 1927, translated together with Ida Jacob-Anders
- Hendrik Beeke: The thirst for beauty , Leipzig 1908
- Henri Borel: Liliane , Munich 1903
- Henri Borel: A Dream , Berlin 1905
- Edward Bulwer Lytton : The Last Days of Pompeii . Leipzig 1912
- Barend Canter: traveling people . Berlin 1908
- Luis Coloma: The Crowned Martyr . 2 vols. Berlin 1902
- Luis Coloma: God's hand , Berlin 1903
- Louis Couperus : On the Path of Joy , Berlin 1920
- Louis Couperus: Aphrodite in Egypt , Berlin 1920
- Louis Couperus: Babel , Berlin 1920
- Louis Couperus: Dionysus , Leipzig 1920
- Louis Couperus: Heliogabal , Frankfurt 1916
- Louis Couperus: Herakles , Berlin 1923
- Louis Couperus: Iskander , Leipzig 1925
- Louis Couperus: Japanese Forays , Berlin-Schöneberg 1929
- Louis Couperus: The Comedians , Munich 1919
- Louis Couperus: The Life Curve , Berlin 1921
- Louis Couperus: Lucrezia Borgia , Leipzig 1926
- Louis Couperus: Majesty , Dresden 1895
- Louis Couperus: Novellas , 2 vols. Berlin 1897
- Louis Couperus: Psyche , Leipzig 1924
- Louis Couperus: The floating chessboard , Berlin 1921
- Louis Couperus: The Unfortunate , Munich 1921
- Louis Couperus: The Invisible Hand , Leipzig 1928
- Louis Couperus: Under Java's Tropical Sun , Berlin 1926
- Louis Couperus: The donkey in love , Berlin 1920
- Louis Couperus: Xerxes or Der Hochmut , Berlin 1919
- Charles De Coster : The Honeymoon , Berlin 1927
- Frederik van Eeden : The joyful world , Berlin 1907
- Frederik van Eeden: Is Communism a Dream? , Berlin 1908
- Frederik van Eeden: Johannes the Wanderer , Berlin 1908
- Frederik van Eeden: Little Johannes . 3 vols. Berlin 1906
- Frederik van Eeden: Lioba , Berlin 1912 (translated together with Armin Petersen)
- Frederik van Eeden: The Night Bride , Berlin 1909
- Frederik van Eeden: How storms bless , Berlin 1907
- Frederik van Eeden: Ysbrand , Berlin 1908
- Hermann van den Eerenbeemt: Malmstroem , Amsterdam 1922
- John Habberton : "Helen's Children" and "Other People's Children" , Leipzig 1919
- Herman Heijermans: Bluff , Berlin 1926
- Herman Heijermans: Eva Bonheur , Berlin 1925
- Herman Heijermans: Schande , Berlin 1907
- Joris-Karl Huysmans : Downstream , Berlin 1925
- Jozef Israëls : Rembrandt , Berlin 1906
- Cécile de Jong van Beek en Donk: The day is coming ... Berlin 1907
- Cécile de Jong van Beek en Donk: Women who heard the call , Berlin 1907
- Guy de Maupassant : At sea . Paris 1899
- Justus van Maurik: A journalist's prank and other humoresques , Leipzig 1896
- Justus van Maurik: My lecture evening and other humoresques , Leipzig 1904
- Joseph Maria van Mens: Jesuits , Berlin 1912
- Top Naeff: The silent witness , Berlin 1908
- CP van Rossem: Femina , Berlin 1919
- Anna de Savornin Lohman: tired of questions , Leipzig 1907
- Josine Adriana Simons-Mees: Imperial Highness . Berlin-Charlottenberg 1913 (translated together with Rudolph Lothar)
- Spanish novellas , Berlin 1908 (translated together with Rosa Speyer)
- Oscar Wilde : fairy tales . Berlin 1910
- Augusta de Wit: Enmity , Leipzig 1893
- Augusta de Wit: The goddess who waits there , Leipzig 1908
- Augusta de Wit: A mother , Berlin 1908
- Augusta de Wit: Orpheus in the Dessa . Berlin 1905
literature
- Else Otten, the artistic-literary link between the Netherlands and Germany . In: Jaap Grave: Translate is Liebeswerk , Leipzig 2003, pp. 171–250.
Web links
- Literature by and about Else Otten in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otten, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1931 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |