Herbert Steinthal

Eduard Louis Herbert Troels Thomas Steinthal, (born November 1, 1913 in Berlin ; † February 9, 1986 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish literary, theater and film critic , as well as a translator of novels.

Life

From the mid-1930s to the 1970s, he translated German texts into Danish . He was also an influential film, theater and literary critic and chairman of the Filmmedarbejderforeningen (film workers 'association ) and the Teatermedarbejderforeningen (theater workers' association ). Steinthal grew up in Berlin. He trained as a journalist at Sorø Amtstidende . In 1936 he became a freelance critic in politics . From 1939 he mainly dealt with culture. From 1946 to 1947 he was a correspondent in Berlin, then in Central Europe and Moscow. Steinthal worked as a translator until 1970; his most recently translated books were Heinrich Böll's Ende einer Dienstfahrt (1968) and Erich Kästner's The Little Man and the Little Miss (1970). He translated with Vibeke Steinthal, with whom he was married from 1959 to 1974.

In 1940 and 1980 he worked on the yearbook Who-What-Where and the Danish Conversation Lexicon.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sorø Amtstidende was a Danish newspaper that appeared from 1815 to 1963 in the western part of Zealand (Denmark) . The newspaper was founded in Slagelse and was published until 1845 under the name Avis for ti Kjøbstæder . Until 1871 his political position was conservative. It was then taken over by the left politician Johannes Tauber (December 9, 1827 in Vallø - October 24, 1892) politician representing Venstre (Denmark) , who also made it a spokesman for his party. In 1874 he changed the legal form to a stock corporation . The Sorø Amtstidende was merged with the Holbæk Amtstidende to form Sjællands Tidende in 1963 .
2. ↑ Vibeke Steinthal born. Brodersen (April 1, 1931; † February 9, 2015) daughter of Gudrun Nieuwenhuis-Møller and Paul Christian Brodersen, [1]
3. ^ Moritz Schramm, Dansk Oversætterleksikon, [2]