Hartmut Fähndrich

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Hartmut Fähndrich (born October 14, 1944 in Tübingen ) is a German translator from Arabic into German.

Life

From 1966 he studied Semitic studies , Islamic studies and philosophy in Tübingen, Münster and Los Angeles . He has lived in Switzerland since 1978 and taught Arabic and Islamic cultural history at the ETH Zurich until he was 70 . He began his career as a translator of literary works in the 1980s with the novels of the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. From 1984 to 2010 he was editor of the Arabic literature series at the Swiss Lenos Verlag . In 1990 he was a founding member and until 1996 President of the Swiss Society for the Middle East and Islamic Cultures .

Because of his merits in translating Arabic literature into German for 40 years , including 40 novels alone, he received numerous awards, including the Hieronymusring from 1995–1997 from the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , a traveling award that Fähndrich passed on to Stefanie Schäfer . He was also awarded the Arab League's translation prize in 2004 , the recognition prize of the Great Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern in 2005 and the special translation prize of the Swiss literary prizes in 2016 .

Works

Editing

  1. ISBN 3-7608-4524-X
  2. ISBN 3-7608-4527-4
  • Inherited Power: Monarchies and Dynasties in the Arab World. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005 ISBN 3-593-37733-0

Translations

  1. Political events and the conduct of the war , 1981
  2. Religion and Society , 1982
  • Ibn Challikân : The Sons of Time , Stuttgart 1984
  • Emil Habibi : The Peptimist or From the Strange Incidents around the Disappearance of Said the Hapless , Basel 1992 (translated together with Ibrahim Abu Hashhash)
  • Emil Habibi: Sarâja, the demon child, Basel 1998 (translated together with Nuha Forst and Angelika Rahmer)
  • Emil Habibi: The Valley of the Dschinnen , Basel 1993 (translated together with Edward Badeen)
  • Iman Humaidan : B as in Beirut , Basel 2007
  • Sonallah Ibrahim : The Examination Board , Basel 1987
  • Jussuf Idris : A carnal house , Basel 1995
  • Jussuf Idris: The Sinner , Basel 1995
  • Jordanian texts , Solothurn 2006 (translated together with Stephan Milich)
  • Ibn Jumay : Treatise to Ṣalāḥ-ad-Dīn on the revival of the art of medicine , Wiesbaden 1983
  • Ghassan Kanafani : Men in the Sun , Basel 1985
  • Ghassan Kanafani: Palestinian Stories , Basel
  1. The Land of Sad Oranges , 1983
  2. Until we return , 1984
  • Abdalhakim Kassem : The Seven Days of Man , Basel 2005
  • Abdalhakim Kassem: Vom Thiseits und vom Jenseits , Basel 2004
  • Khaled Khalifa : Death is an arduous business . Reinbek, 2018
  • Sahar Khalifa : The prickly pear , Zurich 1983
  • Sahar Khalifa: The Sunflower , Zurich 1986 (translated together with Edward Badeen)
  • Ibrahim al-Koni : Bleeding Stone , Basel 1995
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: Goldstaub , Basel 1997
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: A House in Longing , Basel 2003
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: The Ruler's Dress , Basel 2010
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: Die Magier , Basel 2001
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: My Desert , Basel 2007
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: Nachtkraut , Basel 1999
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: The Doll , Basel 2008
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: Sleepless Eye , Basel 2001
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: The Stone Mistress , Basel 2004
  • Ibrahim al-Koni: The Promised City , Basel 2005
  • Lebanese texts , Solothurn 2007
  • Nagib Machfus : The young Cairo , Zurich 2011
  • Nagib Machfus: The Black Cat Pub , Berlin 1993 (translated together with Susanne Enderwitz and Doris Kilias )
  • Nagib Machfus: The blessed night , Zurich 1994 (translated together with Wiebke Walther)
  • Muhammad al-Machsangi : A blue fly , Basel 1987
  • Abdalrachman Munif : History of a City , Basel 1996 (translated with Larissa Bender)
  • Muhammad Mustagab : Errors and Confusions of the Boy Numân. Blutbrennen, Basel 2009 (translated together with Edward Badeen)
  • Hamida Naana : No more rooms to dream , Basel 1994
  • Hassan Nasr : Dar al-Pascha , Basel 2001
  • Emily Nasrallah : Flight against Time , Basel 1991
  • Cardboard box city , Basel 1991
  • Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā : Treatise on Contagion , Stuttgart 1987
  • Latifa al-Sajjat : Searches , Basel 1996
  • Samîra , Zurich 2008
  • Hanan al-Shaykh : Two women by the sea , Hamburg 2002
  • Chaled Sijade : Friday. Sunday , Basel 1996
  • Sakarija Tamer : The Execution of Death , Basel 2004 (translated together with Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck)
  • Majj al-Tilmissani : Dunjasâd , Basel 1999
  • Najem Wali : Baghdad. Memories of a cosmopolitan city , Munich 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cornelia Wegerhoff: Arabic literature from a German pen: The translator Hartmut Fähndrich. In: Lesart - the literary magazine. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, May 15, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c Ruth Renée Reif: Interview with the translator Hartmut Fähndrich: "I miss a continuous interest in Arabic literature". In: Qantara . 2014, accessed May 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fandrich, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen