European Translator Award Offenburg
The European Translator Award Offenburg is an international literature award for literary translators . It was donated in equal parts by the City of Offenburg and the Hubert Burda Foundation in 2005 and has been awarded every two years since 2006.
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The Offenburg European Translator Prize is intended to honor outstanding achievements in the field of literary translation from German into another European or from another European into German. The award sees itself "especially as a funding instrument to break down cultural barriers ... [and] cultural exchange in the spirit of European understanding."
The main prize is endowed with 15,000 euros, the winner of the sponsorship or discovery prize, determined by the respective main prize winner, receives 5,000 euros.
Finding committee
The selection committee determines the country of the respective award year, the juror for the main award and the keynote speaker. It is made up of personalities from literary life and representatives of the city of Offenburg. In 2016, she included, among others: Edith Schreiner , Ragni Maria Gschwend , Michael Krüger , Ilma Rakusa and Klaus Reichert .
Award winners
- 2006 Renate Schmidgall (Darmstadt) for her translations from Polish; Sponsorship award: Joanna Manc
- 2008 Anne Weber (Paris) for her translations into French; Sponsorship award: Holger Fock
- 2010 Hanns Grössel (Cologne) for his translations of Danish poetry; Sponsorship award: Peter Urban-Halle
- 2012 Christina Viragh (Rome) for her translations from Hungarian; Sponsorship award: Agnes Relle
- 2014 Christian Hansen for his translations from Spanish; Sponsorship award: Matthias Strobel
- 2016 Andreas Ecke (Wuppertal) for his translations from Dutch; Discovery Prize: Jacqueline Crevoisier
- 2018 Michael Walter (Munich) for his translations from English
Jurors, laudators, keynote speakers
- 2006 Karl Dedecius (juror and laudator), Gesine Schwan (keynote speaker)
- 2008 Peter Handke (juror and laudator), Werner Spies (keynote speaker)
- 2010 Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel (juror and laudator), Per Øhrgaard (keynote speaker)
- 2012 Ilma Rakusa (juror and laudator), Péter Nádas (keynote speaker)
- 2014 Paul Ingendaay (juror and laudator), Fernando Aramburu (keynote speaker)
- 2016 Christoph Buchwald (juror and laudator), Friso Wielenga (keynote speaker)
- 2018 Heinrich Detering (juror and laudator)