Gabriele Haefs
Gabriele Haefs (born August 27, 1953 in Wachtendonk ) is a German author and translator of literary works.
Life and accomplishments
Gabriele Haefs is the sister of the translators and authors Gisbert Haefs and Hanswilhelm Haefs . She studied folklore , linguistics , Celtology and Nordic studies at the universities in Bonn and Hamburg . In 1982 she completed her studies with a folklore dissertation at the University of Hamburg.
She has been translating from Norwegian , Danish , Swedish , English , Dutch and Irish since the 1980s .
Gabriele Haefs, who is married to the Norwegian writer Ingvar Ambjørnsen , lives in Hamburg. She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.
Honors
Gabriele Haefs has received numerous awards for her translation work, including:
- 1994 German Youth Literature Prize (together with Jostein Gaarder )
- 1997 Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize (together with Elin Brodin )
- 1998 Award for literary translations from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- 1999 Austrian Youth Book Prize
- 2000 Willy Brandt Prize from the German-Norwegian Willy Brandt Foundation
- 2008 Special Prize of the German Youth Literature Prize
- 2011 Royal Norwegian Order of Merit , 1st class knight
- 2017 German Youth Literature Prize (together with Jakob Wegelius)
Works
Own books
- The Irish image of the Germans , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7701-2
- with Klaus Gille: Of moral rigor and rebellion. Die Wilhelminische Zeit , Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-8225-0244-8
- With Prince von Pückler-Muskau to Ireland , Berlin 1999
- With Karel Čapek to the North Cape , Berlin 1999
- With Johanna Schopenhauer to Cologne and Bonn , Berlin 2000
- 111 reasons to love Norway. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2016, ISBN 978-3-86265-613-4
Editing
- Das Drachenei , Bremen 1987 (together with Christel Hildebrandt )
- Women in Ireland , Munich 1990 (together with Viola Eigenberz)
- Women in Scandinavia , Munich 1991
- Mord am Fjord , Munich 1994 (with Christel Hildebrandt)
- Hot North , Vienna 1996 (together with Christel Hildebrandt and Dagmar Missfeldt )
- The three holy fools , Berlin 1997 (together with Christel Hildebrandt and Dagmar Missfeldt)
- Karen Babey : Hello my sweeties! , Hamburg 2001
- Celtic witch stories , Munich 2002 (together with Rachel McNicholl)
- The Celtic Tiger , Münster 2002
- Skål, Admiral von Schneider! , Radebeul 2003 (together with Christel Hildebrandt and Dagmar Missfeldt)
- Morden im Norden , Frankfurt am Main 2004 (together with Christel Hildebrandt and Dagmar Missfeldt)
Translations (selection)
- Karin Fossum : Strange looks
- Jostein Gaarder : Sofie's world . Munich 1993.
- Jostein Gaarder: A loyal friend , Roman. Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25443-5 .
- Elin Brodin : Dear Poti… Aarau u. a. 1993.
- Elin Brodin: The Book of Slaves. Aarau 1996.
- Elin Brodin: Planet of Lights Aarau 1998.
- Unni Nielsen : A roof in Brooklyn. Vienna 1998.
- Marianne Berglund: Fog over the river. Munich 2002.
- Neil Smith : Bang Crunch. Stories. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-89561-495-8 .
- Roy Jacobsen : The Village of Miracles. Osburg, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940731-34-0 .
- Roy Jacobsen: Silence by the lake. btb, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-442-72213-6 .
- Roy Jacobsen: point, point, sun, stitch. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-8225-0302-9 .
- Åsa Larsson : solar storm
- Åsa Larsson: White Night
- Åsa Larsson: The black bridge
- Åsa Larsson: Until your anger subsides .
- Åsa Larsson: Because greed will ruin you . C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-10101-8 .
- Nikolaj Frobenius : The shy pornographer . Onkel & Onkel, Berlin 2011
- Agatha Christie : Murder on the Golf Course. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2012 ISBN 978-3-596-51195-2 .
- Camilla Grebe & Åsa Träff : Das Trauma , 2011, btb Munich, ISBN 978-3-442-75259-1 .
- Rick Riordan : Percy Jackson - Thieves in Olympus
- Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson - Under the Spell of the Cyclops
- Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson - The Titan's Curse
- Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson - The Battle for the Labyrinth
- Rick Riordan : Percy Jackson - The Last Goddess
- Rick Riordan: Heroes of Olympus - The vanished demigod
- Rick Riordan: Heroes of Olympus - The Son of Neptune
- Rick Riordan: Heroes of Olympus - The Sign of Athena
- Rick Riordan: The Adventures of Apollo - The Hidden Oracle
- Rick Riordan: The Adventures of Apollo - The Dark Prophecy
- Lena Andersson : wrongful possession: a novel about love. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87469-2 .
- Máirtín Ó Cadhain : The Key , Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-520-60001-1 .
- Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Grabgeflüster , Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-520-60101-8 .
- Jakob Wegelius : Sally Jones - A trip around the world in pictures , 2009
- Jakob Wegelius: Sally Jones - Murder Without a Corpse , 2016
- Bobbie Peers : William Wenton and the Hunt for the Luridium.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriele Haefs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Gabriele Haefs in the German Digital Library
- Interview with Gabriele Haefs in the literature café , on the motivation of literary translators, the relationship with colleagues and publishers
- Haefs in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ German Youth Literature Prize. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haefs, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, literary translator and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wachtendonk |