Jürgen Schneider (writer)

Jürgen Schneider, 2008

Jürgen Schneider (born December 5, 1952 in Wiesbaden ) is a German translator , editor and author .

Life

Jürgen Schneider attended the business school in Wiesbaden. He studied English, political science and history from 1971 to 1977 in Frankfurt am Main at the Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe University. After completing his studies, he first worked in a factory, then in the office of a Frankfurt law firm.

His first translation appeared in 1982. From 1984 to 1986 he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Darmstadt and was a co-founder of the Georg-Büchner-Buchhandlung publishing house. In 1989 he settled in Dublin. The study Literature without Frontiers , co-authored with Michael Cronin and Liam Mac Cóil . Irish Literary Translation in the European Context / Litríocht gan Teorainn. An tAistriú Litheartha Eireannach i gComhtéacs na hEorpa (1990) led to the establishment of Ireland Literature Exchange .

In 1990 Schneider co-founded the Dublin publishing house LiterÉire . He became known this year for his translation of the novel The Hare of the Dog (dt. The dog ) from the pen of the Belfast writer Sean McGuffin. Jürgen Busche wrote in the weekly post: “You don't really know who McGuffin is. It is said that he has lived as a lawyer in San Francisco since he left Belfast. Nobody in Belfast knows him. His books are also unknown there. It only seems to be available in German. Jürgen Schneider is better known as the translator of these books. So you have to stick to him when it comes to praise and love. "

In 1991 Schneider returned to Germany and founded the galerie + edition caoc in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , showed works by Irish and other international artists and published artist books and editions. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at the Limerick School of Art and Design.

Schneider received several grants for work stays in Germany and abroad.

His first novel, RMX , was published in October 2011.

The daily media in which he publishes are the young world and the taz .

Awards

• The Kathy Acker Award 2014 For Achievement in the Avant Garde

Works (selection)

• (with Ralf Sotscheck) Ireland - A bibliography of independent publications from the 16th century to 1989. Darmstadt: Verlag der Georg Büchner Buchhandlung, 1988
• Production, trade and consumption of coffee (15th to the end of the 18th century). In: Hans Pohl (Ed.): The European Discovery of the World and its Economic Effects on Pre-Industrial Society, 1500–1800. Stuttgart 1990, pp. 122-137.
• (with Hans-Christian Oeser and Ralf Sotscheck) Dublin. City and culture. Darmstadt / Moers: Verlag Jürgen Häusser / Verlag Irland Journal, 1992 (2nd edition 1994)
• (with Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling and others) Northern Ireland. History, landscape, culture & tours. Göttingen: Verlag die Werkstatt, 1996
• Irish cooking. Courts and their history. Göttingen: Verlag die Werkstatt, 1999 (2nd edition 2004)
• James Joyce in Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden: Verlag Thorsten Reiss, 2005
• (with Hans-Christian Oeser ): James Joyce . Life. Plant. Effect. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-18221-5 .
• RMX. Novel. - Berlin: Karin Kramer Verlag, 2011
• Kunduz #war #theater. Berlin: Hybriden Verlag, 2017 (special edition with four screen prints and one photo); Popular edition: Distillery Press, Berlin, 2017.
• Anilingasse - A Vienna diary. edition baes 2018. ISBN 978-3-9504419-3-2

Translations (selection)

• Sean McGuffin: The dog. A thriller. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 1990 (2nd edition 1997)
• (with Durs Grünbein, Stefan Döring, Peter Waterhouse, Bert Papenfuß-Gorek) Paul Durcan: The Berlin Wall Café. Berlin: Druckhaus Galrev, 1991
• Sean McGuffin: I danced with the man who danced with Chuck Berry. Short stories. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 1993
• Hakim Bey: TAZ Temporary Autonomous Zone. Berlin / Amsterdam: Edition ID Archive, 1994
• Seamus Heaney: Appreciate the poetry. Darmstadt: Verlag Jürgen Häusser, 1996
• John McGuffin: The fat bastard. Novel. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 1996
• Anne Enright: Angels see so far. Novel. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998
• Anne Enright: The Wearable Virgin. Short stories. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999
• John McGuffin: Last Orders. New stories. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2001
• Mary Low / Juan Breá: Spanish Notebook. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2002
• Vera Broido: daughter of the revolution. A Russian childhood. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2004
• Jason Rhoades: 1724 - Birth of the Cunt. Paris: Silverbridge, 2004
• Keith Ridgway: Cloud Horses. Novella. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2006
• Micky Donnelly: Belfast doubles. Novel. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2007
• Keith Ridgway: Standard time. Short stories. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2007
• Peter Lamborn Wilson: Pirates Anarchists Utopians - No state can be made with them. Berlin: Karin Kramer Verlag, 2009
• Howard Zinn: To be silent is to lie. Autobiography. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2009
• (with Hans-Christian Oeser) Anne Enright: Anything you want. Short stories. Munich: DVA, 2009
• Jack Hirschman: Who cares (poems). Zirl: Edition Baes, 2010
• Ruth Weiss: A parallel planet of people and places. stories and poems, english / german. Zirl: Edition Baes 2012. ISBN 978-3-9503233-3-7 .
• Alan Kaufman: Straitjacket Strategies. Poetry from the American underground. Zirl: Edition Baes 2013. ISBN 978-3-9503559-0-1 .
• Boris Kagarlitzki: The revolt of the middle class. Hamburg: Laika-Verlag , 2013. (= LAIKAtheorie Volume 30), 248 pp. ISBN 978-3-942281-42-3 .
• Sebastian Budgen: Stathis Kouvelakis, Slavoj Zizek (eds.): Lenin Reloaded. Hamburg: Laika Verlag (= LAIKAtheorie Bd. 31), 2014. ISBN 978-3-942281-14-0 .
• Alan Kaufman: Jew lout. Zirl: Edition Baes, 2014. ISBN 978-3-9503811-0-8 .

Editor (selection)

• (with Oscar Gilligan and Ralf Sotscheck) The Birmingham Six: An Appalling Vista. An International Anthology of Support By 55 Writers and Artists. Dublin: LiterÉire, 1990.
• CAOC - Year of Lies I. Berlin: edition caoc, 1992.
• Irrlandt Ireland Ireland. Berlin: Druckhaus Galrev, 1993.
• (with Hans-Christian Oeser) Irish love stories. Hamburg: Rotbuch Verlag, 2002.
• Sean McGuffin. Unrepentant Fenian Bastard. Berlin: telegraph, 2002 (= surrogate # 2).
• Paddy's food and drink. A culinary journey through Irish literature. Göttingen: Verlag die Werkstatt, 2004.
• Victor Sloan, Walk. Catalog book. Augsburg: Culture Office, 2004.
• Belfast. Europe select. Klagenfurt: Wieser Verlag, 2007.
• In addition, co-editor of the irland-almanach , which has been published four times on various topics in 2011, by Unrast-Verlag, Münster.
• Cork. Select Europe. Klagenfurt: Wieser Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-99029-024-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Schneider's homepage .
• Paul Léon and the Career of SS-Heinrichsohn in the Post-Nazi Federal Republic of Germany.
• Florian Neuner: A novel? . Review of Schneider's novel “RMX”.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wikipedia article on Michael Cronin in English
2. ↑ Ireland Literature Exchange ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2016 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. 
3. ↑ Sean McGuffin
4. ↑ quoted from: Jürgen Schneider: Last orders please . Weekly mail. 17th October 1996.
5. ^ Jürgen Schneider, Irish artists in Berlin: galerie + edition caoc, 1991-1999. A documentation, in: Gisela Holfter, Joachim Lerchenmueller, Edward Moxon-Browne (Eds.): Yearbook of the Center for Irish-German Studies 1999/2000, WVT, Trier, 2000.
6. ↑ 2014 SAN FRANCISCO AWARD RECIPIENTS ( Memento of the original from June 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.