Helga van Beuningen

Helga van Beuningen (born July 24, 1945 in Obergünzburg ) is a German translator .

Life

Helga van Beuningen studied English and Dutch at the University of Heidelberg , from which she graduated with a degree in translation. She then taught Dutch at Heidelberg University for 15 years. She has been based in Bad Segeberg as a freelance translator since 1984 .

Helga van Beuningen is one of the most productive translators of contemporary Dutch non-fiction and fiction into German; the authors she has assigned include Cees Nooteboom , Adrianus F. Th. van der Heijden, and Margriet de Moor .

Helga van Beuningen is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works .

Prizes and awards

• 1992 Dutch Martinus Nijhoff Prize for translators
• 1992 Art Prize of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
• 2004 Helmut M. Braem Prize
• 2004 Else Otten Prize

Translations (selection)

• Ad Dekkers. Baden-Baden 1982.
• Jan C. Brokken : The Feininger Project. Frankfurt am Main 2012.
• Hermine de Graaf : Stella Klein. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• Adrianus F. Th. Van der Heijden : The battle for the blue bridge. Frankfurt am Main 2001.
• Carel ter Haar, Edward van Voolen (ed.): Jewish cityscape of Amsterdam. Frankfurt am Main 1993 ISBN 3-633-54080-6
• Anja Meulenbelt : Admiration. Reinbek 1988
• Marcel Möring : A woman. Munich 2009
• Marente de Moor : The Dutch Virgin. Berlin 2011
• Margriet de Moor : The painter and the girl . Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-446-23638-7
• Margriet de Moor: Duke of Egypt. Munich 1997
• Margriet de Moor: Melodie d'amour , Roman, Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24478-8 .
• Margriet de Moor: Sleepless night . Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25280-6
• Margriet de Moor: Of birds and people . Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25819-8
• Cees Nooteboom : Absinthe and Ambre Solaire. Hamburg 2000
• Cees Nooteboom: The dew in spring . Frankfurt am Main 1995
• Willem Jan Otten : woodpecker and son. Frankfurt am Main 2006
• Maya Rasker : Near the Sea. Munich 2006
• Marieke Lucas Rijneveld : What you sow. Berlin 2019
• Thomas Rosenboom : An expensive friendship. Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Renate Rubinstein : My better self. Frankfurt am Main 1993
• Karin Spaink : Illness as a fault ?. Reinbek 1994
• F. Springer : Bougainville. Munich 1996
• Julia Wilkinson: Tibet. Munich 1990 ISBN 3-7607-3802-8
• Jane Tresidder, Stafford Cliff: Living under Glass. Wiesbaden 1986 ISBN 3-8043-0163-0
• Jacky Yip: The Silk Road. Munich 1990 ISBN 3-7607-3801-X
• Douglas Young: Make-up and make-up. Wiesbaden 1988 ISBN 3-7625-2643-5

Web links

• Beuningen in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ, 2019
• Article about Helga van Beuningen in the “NiederlandeNet” of the University of Münster