Hans-Ulrich Möhring
Hans-Ulrich Möhring (* 1953 ) is a German writer and translator .
Life
Möhring grew up in Mainz and initially trained as a bookseller after school. After his apprenticeship, he worked in sales and worked for half a year at the Walter de Gruyter publishing house in Berlin. He then worked for the Berlin Merve collective, where he translated some writings from English into German. He stayed abroad for some time and then earned his living in various jobs. In 1984 he began translating the works of various authors full-time, including William Blake , Joseph Campbell , James Hamilton-Paterson , JRR Tolkien , Tad Williams andZora Neale Hurston . His first self-written novel was published in 2008 under the title Vom Schweigen meine Translators .
Works (selection)
Own works
- From the silence of my translator. A fiction . Fahrenheit, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-940813-02-2 .
- Dieksee - poems from the shore . Seventy-one, Plön 2011, ISBN 978-3-928905-88-6 .
- Ticked off: an excess. Novella . Ed. Rugerup, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-942955-32-4 .
- Killing dragons. tredition Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7469-4107-3 .
Translations
- Paul Buhle: Marxism in the USA (= International Marxist Discussion . Volume 49 ). 1974, OCLC 163955068 (English: Marxism in the United States . Translated by Hans Joas, Hans-Ulrich Möhring).
- Tad Williams: Otherland . tape 1 : The city of golden shadows. tape 2 : River of blue fire. tape 3 : Mountain of black glass. tape 4 : Sea of Silver Light. . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-93425-1 .
- JRR Tolkien: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún . Ed .: Christopher Tolkien . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-93795-4 (English: The legend of Sigurd and Gudrún . London 2010. Translated by Hans-Ulrich Möhring).
- Zora Neale Hurston: They saw God before their eyes . Ed. Five, Graefelfing 2011, ISBN 978-3-942374-12-5 (Original title: Their eyes were watching God . London 1986.).
- JRR Tolkien: Beren and Lúthien . Ed .: Christopher Tolkien. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-10888-0 (English: Beren and Lúthien . Translated by Hans-Ulrich Möhring, Helmut W. Pesch).
- HG Wells: The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine - Two Novels . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-596-90672-7 (English: The war of the worlds - The time machine . Translated by Hans-Ulrich Möhring).
- Zora Neale Hurston : Barracoon. The story of the last American slave . Penguin 2020, ISBN 978-3-328-60130-2 (English: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”. Translated by Hans-Ulrich Möhring).
Web links
- Möhring, Hans-Ulrich. on translator workshop-erlangen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Am Erker - Interview with Hans-Ulrich Möhring (No. 59, 2010). am-erker.de, 2010, accessed on January 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Dorothea Dieckmann: About the vitality of language. Deutschlandfunk, April 17, 2008, accessed on January 24, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möhring, Hans-Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |