Gregor Seferens

Gregor Seferens (born February 23, 1964 in Höngen (Selfkant) ) is a German translator .

Life

Gregor Seferens studied German , Dutch and philosophy at the universities in Bonn and Cologne . In his master's thesis he dealt with the subject of "The reception of Karl May in the Netherlands ". Seferens lives today as a freelance translator in Bonn .

Gregor Seferens translates narrative literature, poems and non-fiction books from Dutch into German . In 2000 he received the Else Otten Translator Prize for his translation of Harry Mulisch's novel "The Procedure" , and in 2007 the Rotterdam Brockway Prize for his poetry translations, especially for the translation of Anna Enquist's volume "Ein neue Abschied" .

Seferens is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Translations

• René Appel : Death at the Lighthouse , Zurich 2000
• Abdelkader Benali : Wedding by the Sea , Munich 1998
• Roel Bentz van den Berg : Die Luftgitarre , Frankfurt am Main 1999
• Roel Bentz van den Berg: The invisible fist , Frankfurt am Main 2001
• Jeroen van Bergeijk : Goldfieber , Munich 2012
• Jeroen van Bergeijk: My Mercedes is not for sale , Munich 2008
• Louis Paul Boon : Der Kapellekensweg or The I. illegal novel by Boontje , Munich 2002
• Peter Buwalda : Bonita Avenue , Reinbek near Hamburg 2013
• Hendrik Floris Cohen : The Second Creation of the World , Frankfurt 2010 (translated together with Andreas Ecke )
• Louis Couperus : The long lines of graduality , Zurich 2002
• Samuel Dresden : Holocaust and Literature , Frankfurt am Main 1997 (translated together with Andreas Ecke)
• Anna Enquist : A New Farewell , Munich 1999
• Maarten 't Hart : Der Flieger , Munich 2008
• Maarten 't Hart: In useless mad anger , Munich 2004
• Maarten 't Hart: The Jacob's Ladder , Munich 2005
• Maarten 't Hart: Mozart and I , Munich 2006
• Maarten 't Hart: The Psalms Controversy , Munich 2007
• Maarten 't Hart: The Snowflake Tree , Munich 2009
• Maarten 't Hart: Unterm Scheffel , Munich 2011
• Miriam van Hee : The connection between the days , Vienna 2006
• Gijs IJlander : Still life with tulips , Munich 2000
• The body-filled space on and on , Linz
  • 3 (2001)
• Anton Koolhaas : The Voices of the First Day , Munich 1999
• Geert Mak : In Europa , Munich 2005
• Geert Mak: My Father's Century , Berlin 2003
• Geert Mak: Netherlands , Munich 2008 (translated together with Andreas Ecke)
• Geert Mak: What if Europe fails , Munich 2012
• Harry Mulisch : Archibald Strohalm , Munich 2004
• Harry Mulisch: The Procedure , Munich 1999
• Harry Mulisch: The Pillars of Hercules , Munich 1997
• Harry Mulisch: The Sexual Bulwark , Munich 1997
• Harry Mulisch: Siegfried , Munich 2001
• Harry Mulisch: The stone bridal bed , Frankfurt am Main 1995
• Harry Mulisch: The Theater, the Letter and the Truth , Munich 2000
• Yves Petry : In Paradisum ( De maagd Marino , 2010), Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902844-91-0 .
• Paul Scheffer : The Immigrants , Munich 2008 (translated together with Andreas Ecke, Heike Baryga and Gerd Busse ); New edition, with an introduction to the new edition, Carl Hanser, Munich 2016 ISBN 978-3-446-25182-3
• Arthur van Schendel : The frigate ship "Johann Maria" , Zurich 2007
• Jaap Scholten : Achtzig , Stuttgart 1998 (translated together with Andreas Ecke)
• Anton Valens : Fisch , Munich 2011
• Frank Westerman : The fate of the white horses , Munich 2012 (translated together with Gerd Busse)
• Menno Wigman : All cities stink in summer , Cologne 2016 ISBN 978-3-947676-08-8
• Henk van Woerden : The Bastard , Berlin 2006
• Joost Zwagerman : Onkel Siem and the women , Cologne 2005

Web links

• Gregor Seferens in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works
• Gregor Seferens on the website of the "Nederlands Letterenfonds"
• Literature by and about Gregor Seferens in the catalog of the German National Library