Gerda Scheffel

Gerda Scheffel (born September 14, 1926 in Leipzig ) is a German translator .

Life

After graduating from high school, Gerda Scheffel trained as a bookseller in Leipzig from 1945 to 1946 . She worked in this profession in Leipzig and later in Frankfurt am Main . Scheffel then studied literature with a focus on French literature in Frankfurt am Main and Paris . After taking an interpreting exam and a teaching exam, she worked as a French teacher in Frankfurt from 1958. Since the early 1960s she has been working full-time as a translator of literary texts from French , often in collaboration with her husband Helmut Scheffel .

Gerda Scheffel emerged primarily as a translator for Robert Pinget and Pierre Carlet de Marivaux . She also worked as a dramaturge in German-language performances of Marivaux's plays .

She is the mother of Michael Scheffel and Tobias Scheffel .

Honors

• In 1979 she and Helmut Scheffel received the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry
• In 1989 she was named "Chevalier" of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques .
• 1998: Medal of Honor from Heinrich Heine University for her many years of work as a juror for the Stefan George Prize, which is awarded by HHU to young literary translators from French on behalf of the Conseil international de la langue française.

Works

• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux . Edited with Bernd Kortländer . Exhibition catalog, February 17 - May 15, 1988. With a text by Noëlle Guibert. Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf 1988, also Goethe Institute , Paris
  • 2nd ed. Marivaux, Anatom of the Human Heart . Edited with Bernd Kortländer. With a contribution by Noëlle Guibert (whose translator Monika Wodsak). Heinrich Heine Institute , Düsseldorf 1990
• Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pécuchet or An Encyclopedia of Human Stupidity . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt 1973

Translations (selection)

• Liliane Atlan: Grol or The Suffering of the Earth , Frankfurt am Main 1977
• Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais : The Barber of Seville or The Useless Caution , Frankfurt am Main 1976
• Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: The great day or Figaro's wedding , Frankfurt am Main 1975
• Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: A second Tartuffe or The Guilt of the Mother , Frankfurt 1976
• Hélène Cixous : Inside , Frankfurt 1971
• Jean Pierre Faye : People and Stones , Frankfurt am Main 1970
• Armand Gatti : General Franco's ordeal. V for Vietnam , Frankfurt 1969 (translated with Fritz Rudolf Fries )
• André Gide : The Pastoral Symphony , Zurich 1987
• Julien Gracq : A balcony in the forest , Frankfurt 1960 (translated with Helmut Scheffel)
• Michel Guillou: Cheese , Reinbek 1981
• Félicien Marceau : Creezy , Neuwied 1970
• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux : The Adventures of Young Brideron , Frankfurt 1988
• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux: The carriage in the mud , Zurich 1985
• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux: The Prince as an Adventurer , Frankfurt 1974
• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux: The Art of Reading in People's Heads , Insel, Frankfurt 1990
• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux: Considering prose . Frankfurt 1988
• Paul Nizan : The life of Antoine B. Frankfurt 1974
• Claude Ollier: The New Cycle. The ear on the wall. A hump in the snow . Stuttgart 1975 (translated with Helmut Scheffel )
• Albert Palle: The experience . Reinbek 1961 (translated with Helmut Scheffel)
• Robert Pinget : Abel and Bela . Frankfurt 1971
• Robert Pinget: Apocryphal . Frankfurt 1982
• Robert Pinget: Moments of Truth . Hamburg 1967
• Robert Pinget: What do you know about Mortin? Frankfurt 1982
• Georges Simenon : The strangers in your own house . Zurich 1978

Web links

• Short biography of Gerda Scheffels on "Culturactif" (French) . With photo; List of all your translations by Pinget

notes

1. ↑ Communication from HHU, December 15, 1998
2. ↑ Editing for the stage. Based on the version for the Teatro Stabile, Genoa, by Luigi Squarzina, Tullio Kezich; with the assistance of Guido Honder. Typescript, theater manuscript