Gesine Schröder (translator)

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Gesine Schröder (* 1976 ) is a German translator.

She studied in Kiel and Berlin . At times she lived in the USA, Australia, India and England. She has been translating fiction , non-fiction , youth literature and children's books from English into German since 2007 . Gesine Schröder has repeatedly received grants from the German Translator Fund, including the “Johann Joachim Christoph Bode Scholarship”, in which young literary translators and experienced mentors work together.

Schröder is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, for which she has been working on a voluntary basis in the editorial team of the trade journal Translate since 2013 . She lives in Berlin.

Translations (selection)

• Vicki Baum : In the distance, happiness. Stories for hollywood. Edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen , Heike Klapdor. Construction, 2013
• Jennifer duBois: Life is great. Novel. Construction Publishing House , Berlin 2013
• William Hastings Burke: Hermann's brother. Who was Albert Goering ? Construction, 2012
• Catalina Echeverri: A dinosaur in my bathtub. Magellan Verlag , Bamberg 2014
• Catalina Echeverri: Mika's dog is moo Magellan, 2016
• Kim Edwards: Lake of Dreams. Novel. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 2011
• (with Milan Clauss) Kim Edwards: The hibiscus heaven. Stories. KiWi , Cologne 2009
• Louise Erdrich : The House of the Wind. Construction, 2014
• Julian Gough: Animal Fables. Magellan, 2017
• Nina de Gramont: The summer of the turtles. Novel. Construction, 2011
• (with Yasemin Dincer and Carina Tessari) Daphne Kalotay: The dancer in the snow. Novel. Construction, 2012
• Mackenzi Lee: Cavalier's Journey. Königkinder, Hamburg 2017
• Edan Lepucki : California. Novel. Flower bar 2015
• Anneliese Mackintosh: I'm not like that. Construction, 2016
• Brian Morton : The Life of Florence Gordon. Novel. Insel-Verlag , 2016
• (with Max Stadler) Melissa J. Rose: The island of secret scents. Novel. Rütten & Loening, 2013
• Melissa J. Rose: The House of Lost Fragrances. Novel. Rütten & Loening, 2012
• (with Andy Hahnemann) Douglas Rushkoff : Present Shock. If it all happens now. orange-press , 2014
• (with Yasemin Dincer) Adrian Shaughnessy: The way to become a graphic designer . Munich 2011
• (with Carina Tessari) Curtis Sittenfeld : The President's wife. Novel. Construction, 2009
• Emma Jane Unsworth: Beasts. Metrolite, 2014
• (with Nadine Püschel) Adrian J. Walker : At the end of all times. Fischer Tor, Frankfurt 2017

Web links

• Essay : Bode Scholarship Unplugged , in Translate , 1, 2013, p. 10
• Report : Let's get loud! Frank Heibert's inaugural lecture for Schlegel visiting professorship in Berlin , November 2015, in "Translate" 1, 2016, p. 1 (on a basic question of literary translation, the relationship between original and translation, and the metaphors usually used for it)