Hans-Christian Oeser

Hans-Christian Oeser (born June 12, 1950 in Wiesbaden ) is a German translator and editor who has lived and worked mainly in Ireland since 1980 .

Life

Oeser is the son of the musicologist Fritz Oeser and the concert singer Anna Maria Oeser, née Augenstein (1912-2010). From 1960 he attended the humanistic Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel . After graduating from high school in 1969, he did his civilian alternative service in Wolfhagen with the disaster relief of the German Red Cross . He studied political science, philosophy and pedagogy from 1971 to 1977 in Marburg at the Philipps University and at the Free University in Berlin . In 1977/78 he was language assistant at the Orton Longueville School in Peterborough , England and at Deacon's School , Peterborough.

In 1978 he passed the first state examination and worked as a student trainee in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and Berlin-Schöneberg . Also in 1978 he received the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). In 1980 he passed the second state examination and received the title of study assessor . In the same year he went to Dublin . In 1989 he received his Diploma in Translation from the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) in Milton Keynes , England.

In Dublin he worked until 1983 as a DAAD lecturer for German language, literature and cultural studies at University College Dublin . In 1983/84 he was a lecturer at the National Institute for Higher Education , now Dublin City University . In 1983 he went back to University College Dublin until 1988 and taught German language and literature at the Goethe Institute in Dublin from 1984 to 2000 . Since then he has been dealing with his translations and various offices such as, from 2009, that of the secretary of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad .

In addition to these offices, Oeser was a member of numerous societies that deal with literature. He has also received several grants for work stays at home and abroad.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2004, Oeser was a signatory of the Frankfurt appeal against the 1996 spelling reform .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Honourings and prices

• 1997: Prix ​​Aristeion in Thessaloniki for his translation from English The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• 2010: Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize
• 2014: Helmut M. Braem Translator Award for his translation from English My Secret Autobiography by Mark Twain
• 2020: Straelen Translator Award of the Kunststiftung NRW for his translation from English of the novel Days without End by Sebastian Barry

Literary activities

Translations (selection)

• Sebastian Barry : My distant, foreign country . Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-513-4
• Sebastian Barry: It's a long, long way . Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-663-6
• Sebastian Barry: Temporary gentleman . Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-289-5 (translated with Petra Kindler)
• Sebastian Barry: Days without End . Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95829-518-6
• Maeve Brennan : The visitor. Novella. Steidl, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-88243-937-8 (The Visitor)
• Maeve Brennan: The carpet with the big pink roses. Stories. Steidl, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-422-5 (selection from The Springs of Affection )
• Maeve Brennan: The morning after the big fire. Stories. Steidl, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-880-3 (selection from The Springs of Affection )
• Maeve Brennan: New York, New York. Columns . Steidl, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-466-3
• Maeve Brennan: Bluebell . Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-664-3
• Maeve Brennan: The Complete Stories . Steidl, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-209-3
• Bob Curran: Little Handbook of the Irish Elves. Eulen Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-89102-459-2 (A Field Guide to Irish Fairies)
• Anne Enright : The family reunion . btb, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-442-74004-8
• Anne Enright: Rosaleen's Feast , Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04700-7 (The Green Road)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald : The Beautiful and the Damned. Epilogue Manfred Papst . Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-23694-1 (The Beautiful and the Damned)
• Michael Greenberg : The day my daughter went crazy . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009
• Michael Greenberg: Begging, borrowing, stealing . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010
• Christopher Isherwood : The world in the evening . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-40582-8
• Claire Keegan : Where the water is deepest. Steidl, Göttingen 2004 (translated with Inge Leipold)
• Claire Keegan: Through the blue fields. Steidl, Göttingen 2008
• Claire Keegan: The third light. Steidl, Göttingen 2013
• Claire Keegan: Love in the tall grass. Collected stories. Steidl, Göttingen 2017
• Bernard MacLaverty : The School of Anatomy. Novel. Amman, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-257-23624-7 (The Anatomie School)
• Bernard MacLaverty: There is a time to dance. Stories. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-23624-8 (A Time to Dance)
• Eugene McCabe : The world is still beautiful . Steidl, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95829-048-8 (Victims: A Tale from Fermanagh)
• Molly McCloskey : How we live. Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-86521-329-4
• Molly McCloskey: love. Stories. Steidl, Göttingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-86930-232-4
• Molly McCloskey: Strong sun, weak moon . Steidl, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86930-943-9
• Patrick McGinley : Bogmail. Novel with a murderer. Steidl, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-208-6
• Paul Muldoon : On narrow paths through the deep north. Selected poems. Translated with Margitt Lehbert . Edition Akzente, Carl Hanser, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-446-19496-7
• Juliet Nicolson : When Mrs. Simpson stole the king . Insel, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-35937-1
• Jamie O'Neill : In the sea, two boys. Novel. Gmünder, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86787-681-0 (At Swim, Two Boys)
• Patrick Pearse : The rebel. Poems. Translated from English and Gaelic . Edition Rugerup, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942955-55-3
• William Trevor : Death of the Professor. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-07777-3
• William Trevor: Love and Summer. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-40201-8
• William Trevor: Cheating at the canasta. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40283-4
• William Trevor: Final Tales. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-455-00828-9
• Mark Twain : My Secret Autobiography. With Andreas Mahler. Structure, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03513-6

Poetry transfers

• The wells at the end of the world . Anthology. LiterÉire, Dublin 2015

As an author

• Meeting point Ireland: a literary guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1996 ISBN 3-15-010424-6
• Oscar Wilde ABC . Reclam, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-379-20101-4
• Dublin: a travel companion . Insel, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-458-34814-X
• Dublin: A City in Biographies. Merian portraits, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-8342-1363-1
• with Jürgen Schneider : James Joyce . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-18221-5

As editor

• Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 ISBN 3-15-009075-X
• Co-editor: irland-almanach , 4 vols. 1999–2002, with different topics, Unrast-Verlag , Münster

Web links

• Website Hans-Christian Oeser , including a résumé (Vita)
• Oeser in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of the father Fritz Oeser
2. ^ Portrait of the author Hans-Christian Oeser , Goethe-Institut, accessed April 7, 2020
3. ^ "Dynamic Style": Hans-Christian Oeser receives Translator Award , general-anzeiger-bonn.de of April 6, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020
4. ↑ A course in which one learns to live. FAZ , August 20, 2011, p. Z5.