Jean-Claude Capèle

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Jean-Claude Capèle (born June 12, 1953 in Speyer ; † 2017 ) was a Germanist, author and French-German translator.

Life

As the son of a German mother and a French father, Capèle grew up bilingually in Speyer and Baden-Baden , where he graduated from the Lycée Charles de Gaulle in 1971. From 1971 to 1977 he studied German at the Strasbourg University (Strasbourg II), where he passed his exams and from 1977 worked as a German teacher at various French grammar schools. From 1985 he worked as a translator for various French publishers, a. a. for Belfond , Presses de la Cité , Julliard , Fayard and Flammarion .

Translated authors

Capèle translated works by Friedrich Christian Delius , Milo Dor , Norbert Elias , Lion Feuchtwanger , Sigmund Freud , Martin Grzimek , Erich Hackl , Peter Handke , André Kaminski , Siegfried Lenz , Hugo Loetscher , CS Mahrendorff , Leo Perutz , Peter Rosei , Herbert Rosendorfer , Peter Scholl-Latour , Ernst Weiß , Urs Widmer and Stefan Zweig .

Awards and promotions

  • 1996 Prix littéraire Lipp-Zürich for "The Fly and the Soup" (La Mouche et la soupe) by Hugo Loetscher (Fayard)
  • 1998 Pro Helvetia sponsorship award .

Publications

  • Guide Du Thème Allemand . Hachette Supérieur, Paris, 1990, ISBN 2-01-016253-6
  • L'Allemagne, here et aujourd'hui . Hachette supérieur Paris, 1996, ISBN 978-2-01-146068-4
  • Khristophoros, le traducteur est un passeur, Christophopus, the translator , in: Dazwischen, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean-Claude Capèle (19 ..- 2017)
  2. ↑ Short biography and acceptance speech (PDF; 377 kB)
  3. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Capèle, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French German studies specialist, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH 2017