Eva Moldenhauer
Eva Moldenhauer (born September 20, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 22, 2019 ) was a German translator of French literature.
life and work
Eva Moldenhauer studied German , philosophy and art history . After living in France for four years, she began working as a translator in 1964. Moldenhauer made a name for herself as a translator of Claude Simon , Ágota Kristóf , Jorge Semprún , Pierre Michon and Rachid Boudjedra as well as other contemporary authors and as a translator of scientific literature of French structuralism , especially Claude Lévi-Strauss . Together with her husband Karl Markus Michel she lived in Frankfurt am Main and obtained a complete edition of the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Under the name Eva Michel , she got involved with the Red Aid in Frankfurt am Main in the 1970s and was therefore temporarily imprisoned.
Translated authors
- Rabah Belamri
- Rachid Boudjedra
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Pierre Clastres
- Rébecca Dautremer
- Gilles Deleuze
- Philippe Descola
- Georges Devereux
- Georges Dumézil
- Emile Durkheim
- Mircea Eliade
- Frantz Fanon
- Jean Pierre Faye
- Charles Fourier
- André Gorz
- Julien Green
- Béla Grunberger
- Marcel Hénaff
- Ágota Kristóf
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Marcel Mauss
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Pierre Michon
- Georges Minois
- Irène Némirovsky
- Ana Novac
- Michel Onfray
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Victor Serge
- Claude Simon
- Jorge Semprún
- Dominique Valentin
honors and awards
- 1982: Helmut M. Braem translator award
- 1991: Paul Celan Prize
- 2005: nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for the new translation of Claude Simons Das Gras
- 2007: together with Grete Osterwald, the Wilhelm Merton Prize for European translations
- 2009: Prix lémanique de la traduction for life's work
- 2011: Raymond Aron Prize of the DVA Foundation for the translation of the book Par-delà nature et culture (Beyond nature and culture) by the anthropologist Philippe Descola
- 2012: Prix de l'Académie de Berlin for the stimulation and deepening of Franco-German relations
- 2012: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier)
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Moldenhauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary , by Joseph Hanimann , Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 24, 2019
- Logbook from translating , Moldenhauer in conversation with Raimund Fellinger , chief editor at Suhrkamp Verlag , in the publisher's "logbook". On the working methods of a translator (undated). Text severely shortened; several audio files, unabridged (each linked at the end of a paragraph)
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement on death , by their Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, accessed on April 23, 2019
- ↑ Eva Moldenhauer. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume 2: PZ. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2018 ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 1155
- ↑ Cf. Kristof Niese: Vademecum of the Protest Movement? Transnational mediation through the course book from 1965 to 1975, Baden-Baden 2017, p. 529 f., 538.
- ↑ the by Wilhelm Merton named Wilhelm Merton Prize (accessed on 26 April 2019).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moldenhauer, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michel-Moldenhauer, Eva; Michel, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary and scientific translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2019 |