Helmut Scheffel

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Helmut Scheffel (born February 7, 1925 in Gera ; † July 17, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German columnist and translator of modern French literature into German.

Life

Helmut Scheffel studied philosophy, sociology, and Romance studies in Frankfurt and Paris and has been a freelance translator and journalist since 1957. In 1959 he provided his translation of Roland Barthes ' Am Nullpunkt der Literatur with an essay. Between 1966 and 1989 he was an editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where from 1974 he headed the “New Non-Fiction Books ” department he founded .

In 1979 he and his wife Gerda Scheffel were awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In the same year he was appointed Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques . In 1993 he and Michel Butor were awarded the Nossack Academy Prize for poets and their translators from the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature .

His reviews were style-setting for the critics, and he encouraged readers and authors:

“In March 1966, Helmut Scheffel wrote in the FAZ about my first book 'Die Horissen' : 'This author conducts basic research. Confide in him '. "

- Peter Handke

Helmut Scheffel is the father of Michael and Tobias Scheffel .

Works

  • From the battlefield to the stake. The trials of Joan of Arc. In: Uwe Schultz (Ed.): Large processes. Law and Justice in History. Munich 1997, pp. 103-113.

Translations

  • Roland Barthes : At the zero point of literature. Objective literature , Hamburg 1959
  • Roland Barthes: The Eiffel Tower , Munich 1970
  • Roland Barthes: Critique and Truth , Frankfurt a. M. 1967
  • Roland Barthes: Leçon , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Roland Barthes: Literature or History , Frankfurt 1969
  • Roland Barthes: Myths of Everyday Life , Frankfurt 1964
  • Michel Butor : Essays on Painting , Munich 1970
  • Michel Butor: Portrait of the artist as a young monkey , Munich 1967
  • Michel Butor: Dialogue with Eugène Delacroix about the "Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople" , Cologne 1998
  • Michel Butor: Your Faust , Munich 1964
  • Michel Butor: Window on the Inner Passage , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Michel Butor: Airlines , Neuwied 1965
  • Michel Butor: Genius loci , Munich 1962
  • Michel Butor: Illustrations , Munich 1969
  • Michel Butor: Improvisations on Michel Butor . Graz 1996
  • Michel Butor: The Congress of Spoons Geneva 1989
  • Michel Butor: Places , Frankfurt 1966
  • Michel Butor: Paris, Passage de Milan . Frankfurt 1967
  • Michel Butor: Paris-Rom or The Modification , Munich 1958
  • Michel Butor: Picasso labyrinthe , Tübingen 1986
  • Michel Butor: Repertoire , Munich
1 (1963); 2. Problems of the novel , 1965; 3. Essays on Modern Literature and Music , 1965
  • Michel Butor: The City as Text , Graz 1992
  • Michel Butor: Steps , Frankfurt a. M. 1964
  • Michel Butor: Themes, Variations, Suites and also not , Tübingen 1990
  • Michel Butor: Tourmente , Stuttgart 1968
  • Michel Butor: The Infinite Writing , Vienna 1991
  • Michel Butor: Unusual story , Frankfurt 1964
  • Michel Butor: The words in painting , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Michel Butor: The Schedule , Munich 1960
  • Gustave Flaubert : Letters , Stuttgart 1964
  • Ruth Francken: In the Flames , Stuttgart 1965
  • Johnny Friedlaender : Tableaux , Stuttgart 1976
  • Armand Gatti : The imaginary life of the street sweeper Auguste G. The battle of the seven days and the seven nights , Frankfurt a. M. 1966 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel )
  • Julien Gracq : A balcony in the forest , Frankfurt a. M. 1960 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Philippe Gras: Angkor , Heidelberg 1988 (translated with Marie Mermet)
  • Bernard Larsson : The whole city of Berlin , Hamburg 1964
  • Claude Ollier: The New Cycle. The ear on the wall. A hump in the snow , Stuttgart 1975
  • Albert Palle: The experience , Reinbek b. Hamburg 1961 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Panorama of contemporary thinking , Frankfurt a. M. 1961
  • Robert Pinget : Counter-Evidence , Hamburg 1962 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Robert Pinget: Inquisitorium , Hamburg 1965 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Robert Pinget: Monsieur Mortin , Frankfurt a. M. 1966 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Robert Pinget: No answer , Hamburg 1960 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Robert Pinget: Undeliverable , Frankfurt am Main 1970 (translated together with Gerda Scheffel)
  • Georges Poulet : Marcel Proust, Time and Space , Frankfurt a. M. 1966
  • Marcel Proust : Days of Reading , Frankfurt a. M. 1963
  • Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes : The Ballad of the Soldier , Stuttgart 1972
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet : Last year in Marienbad , Munich 1961
  • Nathalie Sarraute : The Age of Mistrust . Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • Claude Simon : The Battle of Pharsalus . Darmstadt 1972
  • Jean Thibaudeau: Royal Parade . Neuwied 1962
  • Victor Vasarely : Octal . Munich 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Sattler : Culture: “Again and again in contradictions” . Interview with Peter Handke in Focus 7 (2008), February 11, 2008, accessed on August 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Scheffel, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2010
Place of death Frankfurt am Main