Fritz Vogelgsang

Fritz Vogelgsang (born March 1, 1930 in Stuttgart , † October 22, 2009 in Chiva de Morella , Spain ) was a German translator , essayist and editor .

Life

Fritz Vogelgsang stayed in Spain in 1952 and 1953 to study . From 1964 to 1974 he was literary editor for the Stuttgarter Zeitung . From 1974 to 1980 he worked as a lecturer at Cotta and Klett-Cotta Verlag . From 1980 Vogelgsang worked as a freelance translator and learned the Catalan language as an autodidact . He translated u. a. literary works by Nobel Prize winners Miguel Ángel Asturias , Juan Ramón Jiménez , Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz . Other authors he has translated into German are Salvador Espriu , Ramón del Valle-Inclán , Rafael Alberti and Joanot Martorell . Vogelgsang also received great recognition as the editor of Antonio Machado's work . "His services to Spanish literature in German-speaking countries are immeasurably great," wrote Andreas Dorschel in 2007. Vogelgsang has received numerous awards.

Fritz Vogelgsang last lived in the village of Chiva de Morella, eight kilometers from Morella , and in Markgröningen , in the Unterriexingen district.

Awards

Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart (1978)
Christoph Martin Wieland Prize (1979)
Premio Nacional de Formento de la Traducción de Autores Espanoles (1984)
Premi de Literatura Catalana (1985)
Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation (1991)
Wilhelm Merton Prize for European Translations (2001)
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair (2008) for the German translation of The Roman of the White Knight Tirant lo Blanc ( Joanot Martorell ) from the Old Catalan

Translations

Rafael Alberti : I was a fool and what I saw made me two fools. Sermons and Soul Spaces , Stuttgart 1982
Rafael Alberti: About the Angels , Stuttgart 1981
Vicente Aleixandre : Destruction or Love , Stuttgart 1978
Miguel Ángel Asturias : Legends from Guatemala , Wiesbaden 1960
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer : The Green Eyes , Stuttgart 1982
Jorge Carrera Andrade : Poemas , Stuttgart 1980
Rosario Castellanos : The nine guards , Frankfurt a. M. 1962.
Rosalía de Castro : On the banks of the Sar , Frankfurt am Main 1987.
Salvador Espriu : End of the Labyrinth , Frankfurt am Main 1986.
Salvador Espriu: Obra poètica . 3 vols. Zurich 2007.
Salvador Espriu: The bull skin . Vervuert Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 978-3-921600-37-5 .
Salvador Espriu: The Wanderer and the Wall. End of the Labyrinth , Munich [u. a.] 1990.
Flamenco Verse , Zurich 1964.
Ian Gibson : Lorca's death , Frankfurt am Main 1976.
Luis de Góngora y Argote : Góngora , Frankfurt am Main 1985.
Juan Goytisolo : Spain and the Spaniards , Lucerne [u. a.] 1969.
Vicente Huidobro : Poetry , Frankfurt a. M. 1966.
Juan Ramón Jiménez : Platero and I , Frankfurt am Main 1987.
Juan Ramón Jiménez: Stein und Himmel , Stuttgart 1982.
Juana Inés de la Cruz : First dream , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1993.
Antonio Machado : Antonio Machado , Frankfurt a. M. 1964.
Antonio Machado: Campos de Castilla , Zurich 2001.
Antonio Machado: La guerra , Zurich 2010.
Antonio Machado: Juan de Mairena , Zurich 2005.
Antonio Machado: Nuevas canciones. De un cancionero apocrifo , Zurich 2007.
Antonio Machado: Soledades , Zurich 1996.
Joanot Martorell : The novel of the white knight Tirant lo Blanc , Frankfurt am Main.

First and second book , 1990.
Third book, 2007.
Fourth and fifth books , 2007

Ōgai Mori : The Wild Goose , Frankfurt 1962
Pablo Neruda : Last Poems , Darmstadt 1975
Pablo Neruda: Liebesgedichte , Darmstadt 1977
Octavio Paz : Freedom That Invents itself , Neuwied 1971
Octavio Paz: The five-armed Delta , Frankfurt am Main 2000 (translated together with Rudolf Wittkopf )
Octavio Paz: Poems , Frankfurt am Main 1977
Octavio Paz: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or Die Fallstricke des Glaubens , Frankfurt am Main 1991 (translated together with Maria Bamberg)
Octavio Paz: Search for a center , Frankfurt am Main 1980
Octavio Paz: Vrindavan and other poems from the east , Frankfurt am Main 1994
Fernando de Rojas : La Celestina or tragicomedy by Calisto and Melibea , Frankfurt am Main 1989
Soleares , Stuttgart-Möhringen 1970
Teresa von Ávila : The inner castle , Stuttgart 1966
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán : Adega , Stuttgart 1986
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: The Captain's Daughter , Frankfurt am Main 1981
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: The Carlist War , Stuttgart 1981
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Carnival of the Warriors , Stuttgart 1982
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: The Paper Rose and The Head of the Baptist , Bad Homburg 1983
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Silver Face , Bad Homburg 1983
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: The state rock of the deceased , Frankfurt am Main 1981
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: coat of arms eagle , Bad Homburg 1983
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Winter Sonata , Stuttgart 1985
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Wolf Ballad , Bad Homburg 1984
Ramón del Valle-Inclán: miraculous words. Splendor of the Bohème , Stuttgart 1983
Lope de Vega : Shepherds of Bethlehem , Frankfurt am Main 1986

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas Dorschel, Songs of Ariadne. The great Catalan poet Salvador Espriu. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 15, 2007. Ramon Farrés discusses aspects of Dorschel's text in Fritz Vogelgsang: Salvador Esprius Translator into German. In: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 23 (2010), pp. 39–52.

Web links

Literature by and about Fritz Vogelgsang in the catalog of the German National Library
Obituary by Egon Ammann , Frankfurter Rundschau
Page 14 , Obituary by Helmut Frielinghaus in Translate , VdÜ magazine . 1, 2010

personal data
SURNAME	Vogelgsang, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German translator, essayist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 2009
Place of death	Chiva de Morella , Spain

[1] Andreas Dorschel, Songs of Ariadne. The great Catalan poet Salvador Espriu. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 15, 2007. Ramon Farrés discusses aspects of Dorschel's text in Fritz Vogelgsang: Salvador Esprius Translator into German. In: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 23 (2010), pp. 39–52.