Hans Peter Hoffmann

Hans Peter Hoffmann (also: Peter Hoffmann , * 1957 in Saarbrücken-Schafbrücke ) is a German sinologist , writer and literary translator .

Life

Hanspeter Hoffmann studied from 1977 to 1986 at the University of Tübingen the subjects Chinese Studies , Eastern European History and German Studies . From 1988 he was a research assistant at the Tübingen Seminar for Sinology and Korean Studies . In 1993 he was there for the Doctor of Philosophy PhD . After working as a research assistant in Tübingen since 1994 , he received his habilitation in 1999 .

Since the 1990s he has emerged with numerous translations by modern Chinese authors. In addition, Hoffmann also publishes his own prose texts and poems , for which he received the Hans Bernhard Schiff Literature Prize of the City of Saarbrücken in 2005 and an annual scholarship from the State of Baden-Württemberg in 2007 .

Hoffmann stayed several times in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan , most recently he lived in Taipei for five years and was employed at Fu-Jen University .

Hoffmann is now Professor of Sinology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Chinese Department.

Works

• Gu Cheng : A deconstructive study on Menglong poetry , Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 978-3-631-45930-0 .
• In the last few days: Gedichte , Tübingen 1998, ISBN 978-3-931402-31-0 .
• The world as a turning point: On a literary reading of the True Book of Southern Blossom Land , Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 978-3-447-04476-9 .
• The idler , Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-421-05744-0 .
• Slow time , Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-937667-02-7 .
• The chest organ , Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-937667-77-5 .
• The flight on the kite , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23384-3 .

Editing

• Bai Hua, Zhang Zao, Ouyang Jianghe - Die Glasfabrik , Tübingen 1993, ISBN 978-3-88769-803-4 .
• Duo Duo : Paths and other poems , Dortmund 1994, ISBN 978-3-928861-25-0 .
• Co-editor of the booklets for East Asian literature , Iudicium, Munich (since 1983), ISSN  0933-8721 .

Translations

• Gu Cheng : Mercury and other poems , Bochum 1990, ISBN 978-3-88339-812-9 .
• Wen Yiduo's "Dead Water" (sishui) - A literary translation , Bochum 1992, ISBN 978-3-88339-961-4 .
• Wen Yiduo : The heart, it's a hunger , Bochum 1999, ISBN 978-3-89733-025-2 .
• Wen Yiduo : Tanz in Fesseln , Bochum 2000, ISBN 978-3-89733-042-9 .
• What did exile bring us? - A conversation between Gao Xingjian and Yang Lian about Chinese literature , Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89357-094-2 .
• Lloyd Haft : Where does old light go? Poems English-German , Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89308-350-3 .
• Xi Chuan : The eagle's discourses , Bochum 2004, ISBN 978-3-89733-097-9 .
• Chen Guidi : On the situation of the Chinese farmers , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-86150-765-9 .
• Shang Qin : Dream or Tomorrow , Bochum 2006, ISBN 978-3-89733-135-8 .
• Majia Jidi: Gesänge der Yi , Bochum 2007, ISBN 978-3-89733-166-2 .
• Murong Xuecun : Chengdu, forget me tonight , Frankfurt, M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86150-707-9 .
• Zhang Yihe : The past doesn't pass like Rauch , Frankfurt, M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86150-860-1 .
• Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Chinese-German , 2008, ISBN 978-3-468-11090-0 .
• Liao Yiwu : Miss Hello and the Bauernkaiser , Frankfurt, M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18525-2 .
• Liao Yiwu : For a song and a hundred songs: A witness report from Chinese prisons , Frankfurt M., 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-044813-2 .
• Yang Jisheng : Gravestone - Mubei: The great Chinese famine 1958–1962 , Frankfurt M., 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-080023-7 .
• Liao Yiwu : The Dongdong Dancer and the Sichuan Cook: Stories from Chinese Reality , Frankfurt M., 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-044816-3 .
• Liao Yiwu : I have no enemies, I don't know any hatred: Selected writings and poems , Frankfurt M., 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18999-1 .
• Liao Yiwu : God is Red: Stories from the Underground - Persecuted Christians in China , Frankfurt M., 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-044814-9 .
• Liao Yiwu : The Ball and the Opium: Life and Death at Tiananmen Square , Frankfurt M., 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-19500-8 .