Gisbert Jänicke

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Gisbert Jänicke (born March 19, 1937 in Ziegelhausen ) is a German translator from Finnish , Swedish and Estonian .

Life

Jänicke trained as a bookseller and has lived in Finland since 1957. Here he worked in the book trade until 1978, since then he has lived as a freelance translator in Helsinki. He is married to the translator Raija Jänicke , who translates from German and Swedish into Finnish.

Jänicke translates poetry as well as prose and factual texts, with a slight emphasis on poetry, although the author himself emphasized cautiously: "I don't prefer poetry, but I love it" What is striking, however, are his numerous translations by Paavo Haavikko and for example the new translation of the Kalevala .

In particular, Jänicke has also rendered outstanding services to the translation of Estonian poetry. He was a regular contributor to the magazine estonia , for which he published a selection of an Estonian poet in German translation in almost every issue from 1992 to 2004. In this way Artur Alliksaar (1/1994), Betti Alver (1/1992), Contra (2/2002), Andres Ehin (2/1996), Kristiina Ehin (2004), Jaan Kaplinski (1/1999), Doris Kareva (1/1998), Jaan Kross (1/1995), Hasso Krull (2/2001), Ilmar Laaban (2/2000), Leonhard Lapin (1/2003), Viivi Luik (2/1999), Ene Mihkelson (2/1995), Ellen Niit (2/1998), Tõnu Õnnepalu (1/1996), Kristian Jaak Peterson (1/2001), Paul-Eerik Rummo (2/1997), Mats Traat (2/1994), Debora Vaarandi (1/1993), Mari Vallisoo (2/2003), Elo Viiding (1/2002), Juhan Viiding (1/1997) sample poems in German.

Awards

Scientific contributions

  • Edith Södergran . Dictations på två språk . Helsingfors 1984. (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland nr 518)
  • Kalewaland. The Finnish epic and the problem of epic translation . Hamburg: Buske 1991. (Writings from the Finland Institute in Cologne, vol. 15)
  • Ernst Brausewetter's Finnish adventure. The fate of a translator . Berlin: BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2006. (Series of publications by the German-Finnish Society; Volume 6)

Translations

  • The story of Kullerwo . Six songs from the Kalewala . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1964 ( Insel-Bücherei 819)
  • Christer Kihlman : Noble Prince . Nordis, Düsseldorf 1983.
  • Finland: Myth & Reality: Signals & Impulses from a European border state . Selected and over. by Gisbert Jänicke; Ed. Peter K. Kirchhof , Johann P. Tammen . Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Verlag für neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 1984 (= die hearing 133)
  • The country that is not. A Swedish anthology from Finland . Ed., Comment. and translated from Swedish. by Gisbert Jänicke. Hinstorff, Rostock 1986
  • Explorations. 22 narrators from Finland . Edited by Gisbert Jänicke; from Finnish by Gisbert Jänicke, Regine Pirschel , Peter Uhlmann ; from the Swedish by Gisela Kosubek , Widerun Rehwaldt . People and World, Berlin 1986
  • Zacharias Topelius : Walter's Adventure. Rascal stories from the land of forests and lakes. Translated from Swedish and edited by Gisbert Jänicke. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1988
  • Paavo Haavikko: Autumn Land. Poems from the years 1987–1990 selected by the author . Residence, Salzburg 1991
  • Paavo Haavikko: The trees only breathe easily. Edited, translated from Finnish and with a comment by Gisbert Jänicke. People and World, Berlin 1991.
  • Elias Lönnrot : The hiker or memories of a trip on foot through Häme, Savo and Karelia in 1828 . Translated from Swedish, edited and with a foreword by Gisbert Jänicke. Leipzig: Dieterich Collection 1991.
  • Life is still new. Ten Estonian authors. An anthology. Karlsruhe: INFO Verlagsgesellschaft 1992. (Edition Junge Poesie)
  • Viivi Luik : On aastasaja lõpp - The century is over. Translated from Estonian by Gisbert Jänicke. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1993
  • Paavo Haavikko: Anastasia yes mina - Anastasia and me . Juva: Art House 1994.
  • Paavo Haavikko: Fleur's intermediate maturity . Novel. Residence, Salzburg 1994
  • Arto Paasilinna , Terho Ovaska: Mr. Wassermann and the Finnish sauna . Helsinki: Tietosanoma 1994.
  • Daniel Katz : The wrong dog . Munich: Luchterhand 1997.
  • Paavo Haavikko: Poems! Poems . Residence, Salzburg 1997
  • Olof Lagercrantz : Dante and the Divine Comedy . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1997
  • Arto Paasilinna: Footprints in the Snow: The Millennial History of Finnish Skis . Tietosanoma, Helsinki 1998
  • Culture Lexicon Finland . Editor Olli Alho ; Editor Gisbert Jänicke, Päivi Vallisaari . Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society 1998. (Finnish Literature Society publications 719)
  • Veijo Meri : Under the Pole Star. Stories from Finnish history . Helsinki: Otava 1999.
  • Jorma Eronen , Paavo Haavikko, Sirkka Turkka : Poems from Finland . Translated by Dorothea Grünzweig and Gisbert Jänicke. Basel: Between the Lines, U. Engeler 2001.
  • Daniel Katz: Lot's daughters . Novel. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2001
  • Runar Schildt : Zoja and other stories: Stories from Finland . Manesse, Zurich 2001
  • Elias Lönnrot: Kalewala. The Finnish epic . Translated and with an afterword by Gisbert Jänicke. Young and Young, Salzburg 2004.
  • Erik Tawaststjerna : Jean Sibelius . Young and Young, Salzburg 2005.
  • Aleksis Kivi : Seven brothers . A story . Young and Young, Salzburg 2014
  • Runar Schildt : Zoja. Stories from Finland . Manesse, Zurich 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the craft of translation. Interview with Gisbert Jänicke, in: estonia 2/1997, pp. 30–40, here p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Jänicke, Gisbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziegelhausen