Holger Fliessbach

Holger Fliessbach (born January 30, 1943 in Berlin ; † August 29, 2003 in Grafing near Munich ) was a German translator.

Life

Holger Fliessbach in 1973 at the University of Munich with a thesis on Mechtilde Lichnowsky Doctor of Philosophy PhD . He then worked as a translator of non-fiction books from English and French .

Fliessbach was a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, for whose trade journal Translate he volunteered for a long time.

His father was the lawyer Wilhelm Fließbach , the physicist Torsten Fließbach is his brother.

Awards

• 1991 Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Award
• 1998 Scholarship from the City of Munich
• 2001 Barthold Heinrich Brockes scholarship from the German Translation Fund

Translations (selection)

Peter Ackroyd : London. Munich 2002 Madeleine Korbel Albright : The Autobiography. Munich 2003 Philippe Ariès : Saint-Pierre or The Sweetness of Life. Berlin 1994 Reinhard Bendix : Kings or People. Frankfurt am Main; 1 (1980), 2 (1980) Reinhard Bendix: From Berlin to Berkeley. Frankfurt am Main 1985 Anton Blok : The Mafia in a Sicilian Village. Frankfurt am Main 1981 Nicholas Boyle : Goethe. Munich; 1. 1749-1790, 1995, 2. 1791-1803, 1999 Ernest Braun : ebb and flow. Lucerne 1976 Piers Brendon : Eisenhower. Munich 1988 Michael Brenner : Jewish Culture in the Weimar Republic. Munich 2000 Peter Robert Lamont Brown : The Last Pagans. Berlin 1986 Mary Cable : The African kings. Munich 1984 Lionel Casson : The Greek Conquerors. Munich 1984 John L. Casti : Loss of Truth. Munich 1990 Don Cook : Charles de Gaulle. Munich 1985 Alain Corbin : The language of bells. Frankfurt am Main 1995 German-Jewish history in modern times. Munich 3. Controversial integration. 1997 4. Departure and destruction. 1997 Theodosius Dobzhansky : Intelligence, Heredity and Environment. Munich 1974 Terry Eagleton : What is Culture? Munich 2001 Ivar Ekeland : The predictable and the unpredictable. Munich 1985 Ivar Ekeland: Chance, Luck and Chaos. Munich [u. a.] 1992 Gerald Epstein : Waking Dream Therapy. Stuttgart 1985 Richard J. Evans : The Third Reich. Frankfurt, M. 1. Ascent. 2004 (translated together with Udo Rennert) Richard J. Evans: Rituals of Retribution. Berlin 2001 Peter Gay : Education of the Senses. Munich 1986 Peter Gay: The tender passion. Munich 1987 Dick Geary : Workers 'Protest and Workers' Movement in Europe 1848–1939. Munich 1983 Robert Gellately : Looked and looked away. Stuttgart [u. a.] 2002

History of private life. Frankfurt am Main 1. From the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire. 1989 2. From the feudal age to the Renaissance. 1990 5. From the First World War to the present. 1993 Jack Goody : Family History. Munich 2002 Stephen Jay Gould : The Discovery of Deep Time. Munich [u. a.] 1990 Michael Grant : Lexicon of Ancient Myths and Figures. Munich 1976 Michael Grant: Nero. Munich 1978 Samuel P. Huntington : Clash of Cultures. Munich [u. a.] 1996 Yukiko Irwin : With ten fingers against a thousand diseases. Bern [u. a.] 1976 Sudhir Kakar : shamans, saints and doctors. Munich 1984 Hermione Lee : Virginia Woolf. Frankfurt am Main 1999 Mary R. Lefkowitz : The Daughters of Zeus. Munich 1992 Bernard Lewis : Emperor and Caliphs. Munich [u. a.] 1996 Carolyn Merchant : The Death of Nature. Munich 1987 Arthur Miller : In China. Lucerne 1979 Desmond Morris : Love goes through your skin. Zurich 1972 Eric Newby : Great Atlas of Discovery Journeys. Cologne 1979 Duncan Norton-Taylor : The Celts. Amsterdam 1975 Edna O'Brien : James Joyce. Munich 2004 DP O'Connell : Richelieu. Munich 1978 Peter Paret : Art as History. Munich 1990 Ivan Popov : Stay young! Munich 1977 Eliot Porter : Greek World. Munich 1981 Jedediah Purdy : The Misery of Irony. Hamburg 2002 Qiu Xiaolong : Death of a Red Heroine. Vienna 2003 Susan Sontag : AIDS and its metaphors. Munich [u. a.] 1989 Tivadar Soros : Masquerade. Stuttgart [u. a.] 2003 Paul Veyne : Wisdom and Altruism. Frankfurt am Main 1993 William Montgomery Watt : The Influence of Islam on the European Middle Ages. Berlin 1988 Jean Ziegler : The new rulers of the world and their global adversaries. Munich 2003

literature

• Josef Winiger : Obituary for Holger Fliessbach. Zs. "Translate", Organ des VdÜ, Issue 3, 2003, ISSN  1868-6583 S. 8 online

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family and ancestors , on the official website of Torsten Fließbach at uni-siegen.de