Frank Günther
Frank Günther (* 1947 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † October 15, 2020 in Ulm ) was a German translator .
Life
Frank Günther grew up in Wiesbaden . After studying English, German and theater history in Mainz and Bochum , he worked as a freelance assistant director and director at several theaters until 1974 . While still working at the theater, he translated new and old dramatic works into German. From the 1970s he translated the complete works of William Shakespeare ; In 2017 the last of the translated dramas appeared with Pericles, Prince of Tire .
In 2001 Günther received the Christoph Martin Wieland Prize for Translators, named after Wieland , the first German Shakespeare translator , and in 2006 the Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Prize . In the 2007/08 winter semester he was visiting professor for translation at the Free University of Berlin . In 2011 Günther was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry .
He was a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Günther lived in Rot an der Rot in Upper Swabia . He died in October 2020 at the age of 73 after a brief serious illness in Ulm.
Works
In 2014, on the occasion of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, two books by Günther were published: Our Shakespeare. Insights into Shakespeare's foreign-related times as well as the bilingual collection of quotations from Shakespeare's word treasures . In 2016 his translation of The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore was published under the title The Strangers. For more compassion . This fragment of a dramatic scene is believed to be the only surviving handwritten manuscript by Shakespeare.
Web links
- Literature by and about Frank Günther in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank Günther , at dtv
- Christian Gampert: The translator Frank Günther in portrait , on Deutschlandfunk, April 20, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Shakespeare translator Frank Günther died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on October 15, 2020.
- ^ The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore , at the British Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Günther, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 2020 |
| Place of death | Ulm |