Hans J. Schütz

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Hans Jürgen Schütz (born September 4, 1936 in Wilhelmshaven ; † July 10, 2004 in Bremen ) was a German translator and writer. Along with Margaret Carroux and Wolfgang Krege, he was part of the "triumvirate of the great German Tolkien translators"

Life

Schütz studied German and English in Marburg an der Lahn . From 1968 to 1971 he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then worked from 1972 to 1975 as a publishing editor. Since 1976 he has worked as a freelance writer, journalist and translator. He died in Bremen in 2004 . Hans J. Schütz was married to the publisher Ida Schöffling in his first marriage and to the librarian Dagmar Schütz-Ködding in his second marriage.

Schütz was a permanent employee of the Börsenblatt and a member of the PEN .

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As a translator, he has translated more than 30 works of fiction, biographies, books for young people and non-fiction from English and American into German, etc. a. for the publishers Rowohlt , S. Fischer , Ravensburger , CH Beck and Klett-Cotta Verlag, including authors such as Philip Kerr , Tad Williams and Patricia A. McKillip . In his literary work, Schütz specialized in depictions of literary censorship and topics from German literary history. The works of JRR Tolkien and various representations for its reception and explanation take up a large part of his translation work .

literature

Translations (selection)

Alphabetical

  • Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë: Angria & Gondal. Edited by Elsemarie Maletzke. Frankfurter Verlag-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-627-10015-8 .
  • Jo Bannister: Unwilling suicide (= rororo ; Volume 2894; rororo thriller ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989.
  • Peter S. Beagle: The Indian rhinoceros. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-87518-2 .
  • Peter S. Beagle: Three ladies came in the evening glow novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-93273-9 .
  • Aidan Chambers: Who will stop Melanie Prosser. 1st edition. Arena-Verlag, Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-401-03979-0 .
  • Joy Chant: Red Moon and Black Mountain. Hobbit-Presse Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-901470-5 .
  • David Day: Tolkien's World. The mythological sources of the "Lord of the Rings". Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-93629-7 .
  • Elaine Feinstein: Marina Tsvetaeva. A biography. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11284-2 .
  • Andrew Field: The Secret Notes of Edward de Vere, Grand Chamberlain, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, poet and playwright, called Shakespeare. Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-95850-9 .
  • Karen W. Fonstad: Historical Atlas of Middle-earth. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-95023-0 .
  • Peter Fritzsche: How Germans became Nazis. Pendo, Zurich / Munich 1999, ISBN 3-85842-361-0 .
  • Victoria Glendinning: Vita Sackville-West. A biography. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-627-10009-3 .
  • James Houston: Fire under the ice. Adventure in the Canadian Arctic. Bertelsmann, Munich 1977.
  • Philip Kerr: The Berlin Trilogy (= rororo ; Volume 23689). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004.
  • Gabriel King: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. The official companion book. Figures, landscapes and places in Middle-earth. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-93506-1 .
  • Howard P. Lovecraft: The Dream Trip to the Unknown Kadath. Hobbit-Presse Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-904930-4 .
  • TJ Lustig: The Conspiracy or My Life as a Horse. Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-95846-0 .
  • John Masefield: The Midnight Folk. Hobbit-Presse Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-95613-1 .
  • Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane: The Children of Soweto. Novel. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1986.
  • Robert Paltock: Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins from Cornwall. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-95566-6 .
  • Gary Russell: The Lord of the Rings - The Companions. The creation of a film artwork. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-93331-X .
  • Brian Sibley: The road goes on and on. The map of Tolkien's Middle-earth. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-93761-9 .
  • David Thomson: Laurence Stars. A biography. Frankfurter Verlag-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-627-10231-2 .
  • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien [and folk poetry]: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. With the essay Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-93263-1 .
  • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: Tuor and his arrival in Gondolin. Narrative. Klett-Cotta in the Deutsches Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-423-10456-2 .
  • Janwillem van de Wetering: Oil pirates. (= rororo ; volume 43291; rororo thriller ). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-43291-9 (redesigned edition 2002 as rororo volume 23249, ISBN 3-499-23249-9 ).
  • Tad Williams: Dream Hunter and Goldpaw. Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-93831-9 .

Representations and editorships on topics of literary history

  • The real Jacob. Half a century in facsimiles. Edited and introduced by Hans J. Schütz. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1977.
  • Well, brothers stand like a man. Leaflets, songs and writings of German socialists. 1833-1863. Represented in a historical context by Hans J. Schütz. Anrich, Modautal-Neunkirchen 1979.
  • Almanac of the Forgotten. Edited by Klaus Schöffling and Hans J. Schütz. Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30855-4 .
  • Reason is always Republican. Texts on the democratic tradition in Germany 1747–1807. Hans J. Schütz [Hrsg.], 2nd, extended edition, Anrich, Modautal-Neunkirchen 1980, ISBN 3-920110-55-2 .
  • Wilhelm Blos: The German Revolution. History of the German movement from 1848 and 1849. Edited and introduced by Hans J. Schütz. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0030-2 .
  • Stephan Born: Memories of a forty-eight man. Edited and introduced by Hans J. Schütz. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-8012-0031-0 .
  • Adelheid Popp: youth of a worker. Edited and introduced by Hans J. Schütz. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1977.
  • "Allow me to be quiet". The poet Ferdinand Hardekopf. Contribution to translations from French. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Bg. 40.1984, MVB Marketing- und Verlags-Service des Buchhandels, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, pp. 1487-1488, ISSN 1611-4280, ZDB-ID 2097499-1.
  • Summer weather, imperial weather, Hohenzollern weather. Karl Jakob Hirsch or Hanover and great world history. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Jg. 40.1984, No. 12, MVB Marketing- und Verlags-Service des Buchhandels, Frankfurt a, M. 2003, pp. 266–267, ISSN 1611-4280, ZDB-ID 2097499-1 .
  • When the Court Censorship Commission even put the index on the index. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , vol. 45, no. 14, Verlag Buchhandler-Vereinigung, Frankfurt a. M. 1989, pp. 554-564, ISSN 0940-0044, ZDB-ID 124201-5.
  • "Your language is also mine". A German-Jewish literary history. Pendo, Zurich / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-85842-382-3 .
  • Jews in German Literature. An overview of a German-Jewish literary history (= Piper series ; Volume 1520). Piper, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11520-9 .
  • "I was once a German poet". Forgotten and misunderstood authors of the 20th century. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33308-7 .
  • Prohibited books. A History of Censorship from Homer to Henry Miller. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34007-5 .

Secondary literature

  • Hans J. Schütz, in: Jürgen Dierking, Klaus Kellner, Edith Laudowicz: Literaturszene Bremen, Bremerhaven & umzu: authors and addresses, Bremen 1993, p. 107

Online resources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=78&tomb=998&b=S&lang=de
  2. ↑ Lisa Kuppler: Wolfgang Krege. 1.2.1939-13.4.2005. An obituary, in: Der Flammifer von Westernis No. 24 (1/2005).
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Hans J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schütz, Hans Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2004
Place of death Bremen