Hans Wolf (translator)

Hans Wolf ( pseudonym : Eugen Neter , born November 9, 1949 in Baden-Baden ) is a German translator .

Life

After completing secondary school, Hans Wolf completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Baden-Baden high school in Hohenbaden . He then attended an evening high school and passed the Abitur there. He studied German , English and philosophy at the University of Freiburg ; after that he carried out various activities and also wrote literary texts. Wolf has been working as a translator from English since the mid- 1980s ; The authors he has translated include: a. Cormac McCarthy , Richard Yates and Arthur Conan Doyle .

Awards

• 1989 Scholarship from the Arno Schmidt Foundation
• 1992 Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize
• 1996 Translator Prize of the Marburg Literature Prize
• 2003 Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation .

book

• Pairings for one hand. Haffmans, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-251-30009-1 (under the name Eugen Neter)

Translations

• Peter Ackroyd : The case of the master builder , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988
• Brian Boyd : Vladimir Nabokov , Reinbek near Hamburg
  • The Russian Years , 1999 (translated with Ursula Locke-Groß)
  • The American Years , 2005 (translated with Ursula Locke-Groß)
• Paul Carson : Doctor Norbert Bär , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1998
• Peggy Christian : The exquisite adventures of the mouse Cervantes , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1997
• Arthur Conan Doyle : Sherlock Holmes' Book of Cases , Zurich 1987
• Arthur Conan Doyle: The Valley of Fear , Zurich 1986
• Richard Ellmann : Oscar Wilde , Munich [a. a.] 1991
• John Fowles : Die Grille , Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
• Robert Frank : The Americans , Göttingen 2008
• Stefan Gates : The Gastronaut , Hildesheim 2006 (translated together with Jutta Orth)
• Terry Jones : Lady Cottington: My Secret Elf Album , Hildesheim 1995
• Terry Jones: Trolle , Hildesheim 1996
• Terry Jones: Lady Cottington's secret pocket calendar , Hildesheim 1998
• Terry Jones: Strange spots and strange smells , Hildesheim 2000
• Cormac McCarthy : The Evening Redness in the West , Reinbek near Hamburg 1996
• Cormac McCarthy: All the beautiful horses , Reinbek near Hamburg 1993
• Cormac McCarthy: Out in the dark , Reinbek near Hamburg 1994
• Cormac McCarthy: Grenzgänger , Reinbek near Hamburg 1995
• Cormac McCarthy: Lost , Reinbek near Hamburg 1992
• Henry Louis Mencken : Selected Works , Waltrop and Leipzig 2002
  • Volume III, Commentaries and Columns 1909-1935 (translated together with Joachim Kalka)
• Tor Seidler : The story of Monty Spinnerratz , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1997
• Adam Thorpe : Ulverton , Hildesheim 1994
• Horace Walpole : The Otranto Castle , Munich 2014
• Walt Whitman : The beautiful man , Munich 2018
• Oscar Wilde : The Portrait of Dorian Gray , Zurich 1999
• Dirk Wittenborn : Unter Wilden , Cologne 2003
• Richard Yates : Elf types of loneliness , Munich 2006 (translated together with Anette Grube)
• Richard Yates: Times of Unrest , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2002
• Marly Youmans : Catherwood , Hildesheim 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article about Hans Wolf from "Zeit", 1992