Irène Kuhn

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Irène Kuhn (* 1947 in Strasbourg ) is a French Germanist , lecturer , translator and writer . She was married to the Austrian actor Werner Kreindl .

Life

Irène Kuhn was born in Strasbourg in 1947 and grew up trilingual. She studied in Strasbourg, Paris , Hanover and Leipzig and a doctorate on Charles Baudelaire to Dr. phil. with her dissertation La destinée allemande des Petits Poèmes en Prose de Baudelaire. Traduction et réception critique (1869-1939) . After her habilitation thesis Antoine Berman's draft of a “productive” translation criticism, she taught at the University of Strasbourg as Maître de conférences from 1990 onwards .

She has been working as a translator from French into German and vice versa since the 1980s , sometimes under the pseudonym Irène de Font-Verger, inspired by her farm Font-Verger, where she has lived since 1983. As the author of her own works, some of which are bilingual, and as a translator, she has published numerous books since 1980, translating around 130 mostly from French, occasionally from English into German, and often from German into French. This includes works by important authors such as Georges Simenon , Henri Troyat , Marcel Pagnol , Anaïs Nin , Eugène Ionesco , Jean Piaget , Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Magnan , Benoîte Groult and Julien Green . She is also editor of the German edition of the complete works of Eugène Ionesco and co-translator of the plays of Heinrich von Kleist .

Irène Kuhn married the Austrian actor Werner Kreindl, whose third wife she was. After Kreindl's death in 1992 she married the publisher Jürgen Kreuzhage , with whom she lives in Provence . She is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS), the Association des Traducteurs Littéraires de France (ATLF) and ATLAS, a management consultancy for prospective translators.

Kuhn was a jury member for the former André Gide Prize as well as for the Stefan George Prize , which is awarded by the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Works

  • 1990: (Under the pseudonym Irène de Font-Verger :) The cuisine of Provence . Land and people. Hädecke Verlag, Weil der Stadt, ISBN 3-7750-0205-7 .
  • 1991: (Together with Klaus Tödt-Rübel :) Life in earlier times (= Colored Knowledge ; Vol. 7). Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg, ISBN 3-473-35667-0 .
  • 1992: Tour de France. France in little stories . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-423-09288-2 .
  • 1994: (Under the pseudonym Irène de Font-Verger :) The cuisine of Alsace . Land and people . Hädecke Verlag, Weil der Stadt, ISBN 3-7750-0245-6 .
  • 1996: La destinée allemande des Petits Poèmes en Prose de Baudelaire. Traduction et réception critique (1869-1939) . PU de Lille .
  • 2003: Mesdames! Great French women in little stories . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-423-09428-1 .
  • 2007: Antoine Berman's “productive” translation criticism . Design and testing of a method. With a translation of Bermans Pour une Critique des traductions . Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, ISBN 978-3-8233-4094-2 .
    • Review by Ulrike Bokelmann: Experience of the foreign. In: Translate , 1, 2010, p. 15f. Full text
  • 2014: Un tour de France pour les gourmets. A trip to France for gourmets . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-423-09522-8 .
  • 2017: Découvrir la France. Discover France . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-423-09538-9 .

Translations (selection)

  • 1980: Henri Troyat: The Chosen One. A novel from the time of Catherine the Great . Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich, ISBN 3-485-00381-6 .
  • 1981: Anaïs Nin: The Children's Diary 1914–1919 . Two parts. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich, ISBN 3-485-00399-9 / ISBN 3-485-00405-7 .
  • 1983: (Together with Ralf Stamm :) Marcel Pagnol: Very personal . Langen Müller Verlag, Munich / Vienna, ISBN 3-7844-1968-2 .
  • 1984: Benoîte Groult: I want to live . Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-426-19113-6 .
  • 1985: Simenon on the couch. 5 doctors interrogate the author for 7 hours . Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-257-01701-4 .
  • 1985: (Together with Ralf Stamm :) Eugène Ionesco: The grotesque and tragic life of Victor Hugo . Popa Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-9800542-7-6 .
  • 1987: Julien Green: The Dramas . Langen Müller Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-7844-2165-2 .
  • 1987: Eugène Ionesco: La main peint. Notes de travail. The hand paints . Erker Verlag, Sankt Gallen, ISBN 3-905545-72-1 .
  • 1988: (together with Renate Sandner :) Jacqueline de Segonzac: sadness and delusion. Diary of a manic-depressive . Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-610-08496-0 .
  • 1988: Benoîte Groult: Salt on our skin . Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-426-60910-X .
  • 1990: Bernard-Henri Lévy : The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire . List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig, ISBN 3-471-78045-9 .
  • 1990: (Together with Klaus Tödt-Rübel :): Laurence Ottenheimer-Maquet: The earth feeds us . Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg, ISBN 3-473-35662-X .
  • 1990: (Together with Klaus Tödt-Rübel :) Gaud Morel: The nature in which we live . Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg, ISBN 3-473-35665-4 .
  • 1991: (Together with Klaus Tödt-Rübel :) The children of the world . Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg, ISBN 3-473-35668-9 .
  • 1991: (Together with Klaus Tödt-Rübel :) Laurence Ottenheimer-Maquet: Life of the Animals . Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg, ISBN 3-473-35661-1 .
  • 1994: (Together with Ingrid Schwarz :) Eugène Ionesco: Pedestrians of the Air . Raamin Press, Hamburg.
  • 1995: (Together with Ralf Stamm :) Françoise Giroud : The lover . Marion von Schröder Verlag, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-547-73218-2 .
  • 1998: (Together with Ralf Stamm :) Huguette Dreikaus: The Alsace that I mean. Small philosophy from the province . Edition DNA, Strasbourg, ISBN 2-7165-0460-1 .
  • 1999: (together with Ralf Stamm :) Jean Piaget: About pedagogy . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel, ISBN 3-407-22001-4 .
  • 2000: Pierre Magnan: The room behind the mirror . Scherz Verlag, Bern / Munich / Vienna, ISBN 3-502-10432-8 .
  • 2000: Charles Baudelaire: Little prose poems . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, ISBN 3-534-14742-1 .
  • 2006: George Simenon: Hotel "Back to Nature" . Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-257-23564-X .
  • 2007: Pattes de velours. Velvet paws. The most beautiful cat stories in French literature . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-423-09473-3 .
  • 2011: (Together with Ralf Stamm :) De l'amour. Aphorisms and other splinters of thought . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-650-71785-6 .
  • 2011: Charles Baudelaire: The Whimsy of Paris. Small prose poems . Lambert Schneider Verlag, Darmstadt, ISBN 978-3-650-24251-8 .

Editing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Irène Kuhn. In: lilienfeld-verlag.de. Viola Eckelt, accessed September 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Irène Kuhn. In: germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de. Friedrich Michael Dimpel, August 1, 2008, accessed September 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Clarissa: Clarissa's junk shop. Authors tell of their pseudonyms . novum publishing, Neckenmarkt 2011, ISBN 978-3-99003-914-4 , p. 113 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Prize for young translators of Francophone literature into German. Donated by the “Conseil International de la langue française”. Endowment € 2,500, dating: every two years since 1995, awarded at least nine times, award organized by the Heinrich Heine University, department of literary translation.
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Irène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreindl-Kuhn, Irène (married name); Font-Verger, Irène de (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French translator and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg