Irene Prüfer Leske

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Irene Prüfer Leske during an interview on the occasion of the establishment of the Asociación Alexander von Humboldt in Alicante, Spain.

Irene Prüfer Leske (* 1944 ) is a Spanish linguist and translation scholar of German origin. She teaches and researches as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Alicante in the field of translation and interpreting .

Life

Irene Prüfer Leske graduated from Heidelberg University in March 1969 with a degree in Romance and German . She then worked in Argentina from 1970 to 1975 and as a translator, interpreter and German teacher from 1975 to 1993.

In 1985 she gained at the University of Valencia , the Licenciatura in Anglo German. With her dissertation La traducción de las partículas modales del alemán al español y al inglés ("The translation of the German modal particles into Spanish and English"), she obtained a doctorate in English at the University of Alicante in September 1993 , where she has been a full professor since 1994 teaches and researches in the field of translation and interpreting and founded the German section. She completed several months of research and guest lectureships at various universities in Germany and Latin America as well as at the International Youth Library at Blutenburg Castle . In addition to her work as a professor, organizer of international symposia and master’s courses in DaF at the University of Alicante, she is the editor and author of scientific works and translates (children's) literature in collaboration with her students .

As part of her chairmanship of the non-profit associations Asociación Alexander von Humboldt and VAMUE ( Víctimas del Acoso Moral en las Universidades Españolas ), she is primarily committed to the defense of human rights and the support of victims of slavery and bullying .

Memberships and chairs

  • Board member of the Asociación Valenciana Pro Erradicación del acoso Psicológico en el Trabajo (AVEAP) (2002–2006)
  • Membership in the Asociación Nacional de Investigación de Literatura infantil y juvenil (ANILIJ)
  • President of the Association of Víctimas del Acoso Moral en las Universidades Españolas (VAMUE)
  • Founding member of the Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas Valencia / Castellón / Alicante (IULMA) (2004)
  • Chairwoman of the Asociación Alexander von Humboldt
  • Chair of the international and interdisciplinary congress "Alexander von Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland" Paris 2016
  • Organization and Scientific Advisory Board in the III. Humboldt Bonpland Congress 29–31 July 2019 Asunción (Paraguay)

Research priorities

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The traducción de las partículas modales del alemán al español y al inglés. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-631-48259-0 .
  • Diccionario de la Propiedad Industrial. Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law. Alemán – Español / Español – Alemán. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, Alicante 1997, ISBN 84-7908-301-8 .
  • Literary Texts and their Translation from German into Spanish with Special Emphasis on German Modal Particles. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Alicante 1997, ISBN 84-8499-890-8 .
  • Alexander von Humboldt y la actualidad de su pensamiento en torno a la naturaleza. Alexander von Humboldt and the validity of his views of nature. (Ed.) Peter Lang, Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-03911-770-3 .
  • The children of the disappeared. Eyewitness reports of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976–1983) (Ed.) Abrazos, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-939871-14-9 .
  • La Traducción literaria. Retos didácticos y profesionales. Editorial ADVANA VIEJA, Valencia 2012, ISBN 978-84-96846-80-7 .
  • Memoria histórica, identidad y trauma / Cultures of memory, identity and trauma. (Ed.) Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, Alicante 2014, ISBN 978-84-7784-661-1 .
  • Yo acosada, Belt en la Universidad, Valencia: Publiberia: ADVANA VIEJA, ISBN 978-84-944629-0-0 .

Essays

  • Argentinisms. In: Living Languages. Vol. 2, 1978, ISSN  1868-0267 , pp. 71-73.
  • The Community Trademark and its Regulation. La marca comunitaria y su reglamento. Glosario alemán – español. In: Living Languages. Vol. 2, 1995, ISSN  1868-0267 , pp. 77-81.
  • A Thousand and One Nights - Stories adapted for children's and young people's books in German and Spanish-speaking countries. In: Michael Pfeiffer (Ed.): Correspondences: Motives and authors in European modernism . Idiomas, Madrid 1999, ISBN 84-8141-023-3 , pp. 330-348.
  • Distribución y función de partículas modales alemanas en textos literarios y su posibilidad de traducción al español. In: Martina Emsel / Andreas Hellfayer (eds.): Brückenschlag. Contributions to Romance Studies and Translatology. Gerd Wotjak on his 60th birthday . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-50131-5 , pp. 121-133.
  • ¿Hay vida después del acoso? In: Rosario Peña (ed.): Cómo desenmascarar el mobbing en la Administración y en la Empresa . Servidoc, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-934690-3-0 , pp. 268-270.
  • ¿Qué tienen Papelucho, Celia y Teo en común? Series infantiles desde una perspectiva intercultural. In: Rui Ramos / Ana Fernández Mosquera (eds.): Literatura infantil y juvenil y diversidad cultural . ANILIJ / CIEC, Vigo / Braga 2012, ISBN 978-972-8952-21-1 , pp. 1-24.
  • El viaje científico canario-americano (1799–1804) de Alexander von Humboldt. Diarios y relaciones epistolares y su recepción en la literatura del siglo XXI. In: Brauli Montoya / Antoni Mas (eds.): Studia Linguistica in Honorem Francisco Gimeno Menéndez. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, Alicante 2013, ISBN 978-84-9717-256-1 , pp. 829-843.

Translations

  • Elena Fortún: Celia in boarding school. ECU, Alicante 2003, ISBN 84-8454-224-6 .
  • Alexander von Humboldt: Political essay on the island of Cuba. ECU, Alicante 2004, ISBN 84-8454-202-5 .
  • Han Z. Li: The water lily pond: a country girl's journey through Maoist China. Edition Noëma, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-89821-851-1 .
  • Dagmar Albrecht: No puedo renegar de mi destino. Albrecht Von Hagen y la conspiración contra Hitler (20-VII-1944). Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, Alicante 2009, ISBN 978-84-9717-082-6 .
  • Emil Adolf Rossmässler : Recuerdos de un viajero por España. Estudio preliminar, traducción del alemán, índices y edición de Irene Prüfer Leske (ed.), Polifemo, CSIC, Madrid 2010, ISBN 978-84-00-09179-8 .
  • Humberto López Morales: La lengua española en el mundo actual. The Spanish language in today's world. ADVANA VIEJA, Valencia 2012, ISBN 978-84-96846-72-2 .
  • Marcela Paz: Papelucho. Goloseo, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-944384-03-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The children of the disappeared. Eyewitness reports of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976–1983) - information text about the book and the author ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ABRAZOS publishing house. Retrieved August 24, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abrazosbooks.com
  2. ↑ Curriculum vitae - the curriculum vitae of Irene Prüfer Leske. Website by Irene Prüfer Leske. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  3. ^ Information according to the email correspondence with Irene Prüfer Leske of August 25 and 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Leske, Irene Prüfer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish linguist and translation scholar with German origins
DATE OF BIRTH 1944