Ira Wilhelm

Ira Wilhelm (born June 11, 1962 in Lahr ) is a German translator and literary scholar .

Life

Ira Wilhelm is the daughter of a German and his wife from Curaçao . She and her four siblings grew up bilingual with German and Dutch as their mother tongues . Ira Wilhelm studied comparative literature , German and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She has been working as a freelance translator since 1994 ; she lives in Berlin today .

Ira Wilhelm translates novels , poems and non-fiction books from Dutch into German . In 1994 she received a translation grant from the City of Munich , and in 1997 a study grant for the Hansian Goethe Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation .

Oscar van den Boogaard : Julias Herrlichkeit , Frankfurt am Main 1997
Oscar van den Boogaard: Liebestod , Frankfurt am Main 2001
Hafid Bouazza : Paravion , Stuttgart 2005
Jan Brokken : The sad champion , Vienna 2002
Midas Dekkers : Der Gesundheitswahn , Munich 2008
Midas Dekkers: The Gnu and you , Munich 2002
Midas Dekkers: From larvae and pupae , Munich 2003
Jaap Grave : Translating is a love work , Leipzig 2003
Cox Habbema : My suitcase in Berlin or The fairy tale of the turnaround , Leipzig 2004
Stefan Hertmans : My grandfather's heaven , Munich 2014.
Stefan Hertmans: The Stranger , Roman. Hanser, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-446-25469-5
Hip , Zurich 1998 (translated together with Monika The).
Hans Ibelings : European architecture since 1890 , Berlin 2011
Lieve Joris : Mali-Blues , Munich 1998
Anton Koolhaas : The thin fur of the Burlót bear , Munich 1996
Erwin Mortier : exposure time , Frankfurt, M. 2007
Erwin Mortier: My second skin , Frankfurt am Main 2004
Harry Mulisch : Self-portrait with a turban , Munich 1995
Rascha Peper : Russian Blue , Munich 1998
Jaap Scholten : Morgenstern , Stuttgart 2002
Chika Unigwe : Black Sisters , Stuttgart 2010