Hanns Grössel
Hanns Grössel (born April 18, 1932 in Leipzig ; † August 1, 2012 in Cologne ) was a German translator and radio editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).
Life
Hanns Grössel moved to Copenhagen in 1939 when his father was transferred to the German St. Petri School in Copenhagen , where he grew up until 1947 and learned Danish from the neighboring children and at the bilingual St. Petri School. After the war he was interned. After he had passed the school leaving examination in Lüneburg in 1952 , he studied German , Romance languages and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Paris. In 1960 he was at the Georg-August University of Göttingen with a thesis on Clemens Brentano Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1960 to 1966 he worked as a publishing editor at Rowohlt and then until 1997 as an editor and literary critic for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne . Grössel lived in Cologne as a translator and literary critic . He has translated all of the poems by the Swedish Nobel Prize for Literature from 2011, Tomas Tranströmer , into German.
He has been translating narrative and lyrical works from French , Danish and Swedish into German since the 1960s . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany and, since 2010, of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .
Grössel died in Cologne at the age of 80.
Awards (selection)
- 1976: Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- 1991: Translator Prize “Nature and Culture” from the Swedish Academy
- 1993: Petrarch translator award
- 1995: Prize of the City of Münster for European Poetry
- 1996: Alfred Kerr Prize
- 2002 to 2004: Hieronymusring of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , which he passed on to Elisabeth Edl as a traveling award
- 2007: Paul Scheerbart Prize
- 2010: European Translator Award Offenburg
Works
- Brentano's drama “Aloys and Imelde” , Göttingen 1959
- Stand on the right side , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1981
Editing
- Raymond Roussel , Munich 1977
- Anthology of Danish Literature , Copenhagen 1978 (edited with Frederik J. Billeskov Jansen)
- Georges Simenon : Cleopatra's pipe , Zurich 1984
- Georges Simenon: Payday in a Bank, Zurich 1984
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Maria Van Rysselberghe : The little lady's diary , Munich
- 1918-1934 , 1984
- 1934-1951 , 1986
- Georg Brandes : The Hatred of Truth , Berlin 2007
Translations
- Peter Adolphsen : Brummstein , Munich [u. a.] 2005
- Peter Adolphsen: The Heart of the Urpferds , Munich 2008
- Jacques Berg : Autumn in Provence , Zurich [u. a.] 1980
- Cecil Bødker : The Ram, Einsiedeln 1966
- Cecil Bødker: Condition Harley , Frankfurt a. M. 1969
- Jean Cau : The Mercy of God , Munich 1962
- Inger Christensen : Alfabet , Münster 1988
- Inger Christensen: Azorno , Frankfurt am Main 1972
- Inger Christensen: Brev i april , Münster 1990
- Inger Christensen: A chemical poem in honor of the earth , Salzburg [u. a.] 1997
- Inger Christensen: Det , Münster 2002
- Inger Christensen: Poem from Death , Münster 1991
- Inger Christensen: The state of mystery and the "poem of death" , Munich [u. a.] 1999
- Inger Christensen: The painted room , Münster 1989
- Inger Christensen: Graes , Münster 2010
- Inger Christensen: Lys , Münster 2008
- Inger Christensen: Lots of snow for the starving sheep , Vienna 2002
- Inger Christensen: The Butterfly Valley , Frankfurt am Main 1998
- Inger Christensen: Part of the Labyrinth, Münster 1993
- Danish contemporary storytellers , Stuttgart 1970
- Petru Dumitriu : meeting point Last Judgment , Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.] 1962
- Sten Forshufvud : murder of Napoleon? , Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1962 (translated together with Margarete Bormann)
- Ulrikka S. Gernes : Where butterflies can hibernate , Berlin 2009
- Roger Gouze : Venus in the Vineyard , Munich 1962
- Marcel Griaule : Masks of the Dogon , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1980
- Lars Gustafsson : Utopien , Munich 1970 (translated together with Hans Magnus Enzensberger )
- José María de Heredia : Man listens unmoved , Pforzheim 1983
- Sven Holm : Termush, Atlantic Coast , Frankfurt a. M. 1970
- Søren Kierkegaard : The Moment , Nördlingen 1988
- Paul Léautaud : Literary diary 1893–1956 , Reinbek b. Hamburg 1966
- Harry Mathews : Roussel and Venice , Berlin 1991
- Leif Panduro : Echsentage , Neuwied [u. a.] 1964
- Leif Panduro: Fern from Denmark , Frankfurt am Main 1972
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues : The monsters of Bomarzo , Reinbek b. Hamburg 1969
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues: The motorcycle , Reinbek b. Hamburg 1965
- Lucien Rebatet : Neither God nor the Devil , Munich [u. a.] 1964
- Klaus Rifbjerg : The quick day is over , Würzburg [u. a.] 1962
- Raymond Roussel : In Havana. Documents intended as canvas , Frankfurt am Main 1982
- Raymond Roussel: Nouvelles impressions d'Afrique , Munich 1980
- Jean-Paul Sartre : Paris under the occupation , Reinbek near Hamburg 1980
- Staffan Seeberg : The Lung Fish , Frankfurt am Main 1973
- Georges Simenon : The Mayor of Furnes , Zurich 1984
- Georges Simenon: The Widow Couderc , Zurich 1982
- Villy Sørensen : Apolls Aufruhr , Munich 1991
- Villy Sørensen: Guardian stories , Frankfurt a. M. 1968
- Jørgen Sonne : Poems , Heidelberg 1996
- Tomas Tranströmmer : Thirty-One Poems , Stade 2002
- Tomas Tranströmer: The memories see me , Munich [u. a.] 1999
- as audio book, read by Michael Krüger , audio book publisher, Hamburg 2011, 2 CD, 109 min. ISBN 978-3-89903-370-0 .
- Tomas Tranströmer: For the living and the dead , Munich [u. a.] 1993
- Tomas Tranströmer: Poems , Munich [a. a.] 1981
- Tomas Tranströmer: The great riddle , Munich [u. a.] 2005
- Tomas Tranströmer: The moon and the ice age , Munich [u. a.] 1992
- Tomas Tranströmer: Complete poems , Munich [u. a.] 1997
- Tomas Tranströmer: Butterfly Museum , Leipzig 1992
- Tomas Tranströmer: The wild market square , Munich [u. a.] 1985
- Leonora Christina Ulfeldt : Jammers Minde , Munich 1968
- Poul Vad : Iceland trip , Munich [u. a.] 1998
- Boris Vian : They don't get it , Frankfurt am Main 1980
literature
- Hanns Grössel: From O to Z . In: Hermann Wallmann, Norbert Wehr (eds.): Prize for European Poetry 1995 . City of Münster, Münster 1995, pp. 44–45 (brief autobiographical testimony).
- Jürgen Ritte u. a. (Red.): Reach into the heart of words. For Hanns Grössel on his 80th birthday: a Florilegium . Rigodon-Verlag, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-924071-35-6 ( copybook special edition).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanns Grössel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical information about Grössel on the Petrarca Prize pages
- Biography of Grössel on the website of the European Translator Award Offenburg
- Caress language. Inger Christensen and Tomas Tranströmer would not have dawned so brightly on the German reader without him: On the death of the translator Hanns Grössel . Obituary by Andreas Rossmann in the FAZ, August 2, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanns Grössel: From O to Z . In: Hermann Wallmann, Norbert Wehr (eds.): Prize for European Poetry 1995 . City of Münster, Münster 1995, pp. 44–45, here p. 44.
- ↑ WDR 3 Kulturnachrichten, August 2, 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grössel, Hanns |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator, literary critic and editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 2012 |
Place of death | Cologne |