Helga Castellanos
Helga Trude Castellanos , née Bock (born October 30, 1936 in Kassel ) is a German translator for contemporary Latin American literature and a writer.
life and work
Helga Castellanos studied German and Spanish literature in the mid-1950s. She worked for the Goethe Institute in Germany and abroad for 25 years , including as director of the institute in Montevideo , Uruguay (1979–1985) and in La Paz , Bolivia (1985–1991). She has three children.
Helga Castellanos has lived in the Berchtesgadener Land for several years and writes books for adults and children.
As a translator, she was an international for the first time with The tunnel of Ernesto Sabato draw attention to themselves (2010 1969, edition). A close and personal collaboration with numerous well-known authors from Latin America followed, including Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua), Jaime Saenz (Bolivia) and Ernesto Sabato (Argentina).
In her current readings, Helga Castellanos works across genres by combining her poetry with music (including the flautist Gunda Veleba and the guitarist Max Reubel) and the visual arts (including the Freilassing artists' guild).
Works
From Life series , from 2007:
- From the simple life - an idyll , Mariposa Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-927708-42-6
- About free life - animal stories from South America , Mariposa Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-927708-80-8
- From daily life - dreams in the big city , Mariposa Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-927708-81-5
Children's book series Mystery Stories , from 2018:
- Secret Stories - First Book , Liliom Verlag, July 2018, with illustrations by Fritz Baer, ISBN 9783934785335
- Secret Stories - Second Book , Liliom Verlag, February 2019, with illustrations by Dieter Schaffer, ISBN 9783934785809
- Secret Stories - Third Book , Liliom Verlag, July 2019, with illustrations by Christa Tauser , ISBN 9783966060028
- Secret stories - fourth book , Liliom Verlag, December 2019, with illustrations by Lisbet Werner , ISBN 9783966060073
Translations
- Macedonio Fernández : Tantalia (1964), in: The red moon. Fantastic stories from the Río de la Plata. Edited by Michi Strausfeld . (= Suhrkamp Fantastic Library; 213). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-38036-2
- Alvaro Menen Desleal : A rope made of nylon and gold (Original title: Una cuerda de Nylon y Oro , 1969), in: The last peace. Science fiction stories against war. Edited by Horst Heidtmann. Signal, Baden-Baden 1983, ISBN 3-7971-0224-0
- Ernesto Sabato: Maria or the story of a crime . Limes publishing house, Wiesbaden / Munich 1976, ISBN 3-8090-2074-5
- Ernesto Sabato: The Tunnel (1948). Roman, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-2639-9
Translations with Christa Fabry de Orias:
- Jaime Saenz: The rooms . Narrative. Unrast, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89771-643-7
- Jaime Saenz: The Señor Balboa . Narrative. Unrast, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89771-645-3
- Jaime Saenz: Santiago de Machaca . Narrative. Unrast, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-646-1
- Jaime Saenz: The night - walking through the distance . Prose poem. Unrast, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-647-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Helga Castellanos in the catalog of the German National Library
- Deutschlandradio for "The Tunnel"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castellanos, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castellanos, Helga Trude (full name); Bock, Helga (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |