Helmut Frielinghaus

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Helmut Frielinghaus (born January 7, 1931 in Braunschweig ; † January 29, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German literary translator .

Life

Frielinghaus was a trained bookseller and worked from 1952 to 1957 in the Librería Buchholz in Madrid . In Spain he also started taking on translation assignments. Back in Germany he became an editor and chief editor at Rowohlt Verlag , Claassen and Luchterhand. From 1995 to 2002 he lived in New York City , since then in Hamburg. Since 1991 he has worked as a freelance translator and editor and consultant for German authors. He translated, partly together with his partner Susanne Höbel, including Carlos Droguett , Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio , Max Aub , Severo Sarduy and Ramiro Pinilla from Spanish and Raymond Carver , Nicholson Baker , Alain de Botton , John Updike and William Faulkner from English into the German language. Since his time at Luchterhand Verlag, Frielinghaus had been the editor of Günter Grass , who dedicated a necrology to him in poetry.

In 2011 Frielinghaus received the Paul Scheerbart Prize from the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation .

Frielinghaus and the European Translators' College in Straelen created translation workshops for French, a means that the German Translation Fund is now promoting nationwide in various languages, as is the Robert Bosch Foundation under the program title "ViceVersa". Frielinghaus was active in the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works throughout his career .

Editing

  • The Günter Grass reader . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag , Munich 2009
  • The Flounder speaks many languages: Grass translators tell stories . Steidl, Göttingen 2002
  • Kurt Wolff for the hundredth . Kellner, Hamburg 1987
  • Hans Sahl . Data and images . Luchterhand, Hamburg 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reingard M. Nischik (Ed.): Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact . Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. [Helmut Frielinghaus in Notes on the Contributors , p. 326]
  2. ^ Updikes Deutscher, in FAZ , January 31, 2012, page 27
  3. ^ Günter Grass: Helmut Frielinghaus called after , Die Zeit , February 2, 2012