Helga Pfetsch

Helga Pfetsch , b. Höfert, (born October 26, 1944 in Jena , Thuringia ) is a German literary translator and trainer / consultant in the field of communication and learning.

Life

Helga Pfetsch grew up in the Swabian Alb, studied English and sport and was trained in various methods of humanistic psychology .

Since 1976 she has been translating from English as a freelance literary translator, and since 1987 she has worked as a freelance trainer and consultant in companies.

From 1997 to 2005 she was chairwoman of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary Works , and from 2014 to 2019 she was president of the Circle of Friends for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Translations

She lives with her husband, the political scientist Frank R. Pfetsch , in Heidelberg.

Awards and honors

• 1992: Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
• 2005: Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize
• 2008: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Editor of

• Confident bridge builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators. Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Special issue from Language in the Technical Age , SpritZ, Ed. Thomas Geiger et al. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN 0038-8475 pp. 61–67

Translations (selection)

• Joyce Carol Oates : Border Crossing , DVA 1978
• Doris Lessing : Shikasta , S. Fischer Verlag 1983
• Alice Walker : The color purple , Rowohlt Verlag 1984
• Louise Erdrich : Liebeszauber , 1986; Die Rübenkönigin , 1988, both by Rowohlt Verlag
• Don DeLillo : Weißes Rauschen , Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, 1987
• Margaret Atwood : Under Glass , 1986; The Maid's Report , 1987, both Claassen
• Saul Bellow : Die Even More of a Broken Heart , 1989; Bellarosa Connection , 1992; The one and only , 1998, all Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag
• Toni Morrison : Human Child , 1989; Jazz , 1993, both from Rowohlt Verlag

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Pfetsch in the catalog of the German National Library