Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation
The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation is awarded annually during the spring conference of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . It was first donated in 1958 as the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize and "is intended to honor both translational life's works and individual achievements in works of poetry , drama , essay writing , and even productive science [...]". In 1977 the name of the award was expanded for clarity. Since 2002 the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation has been endowed with 15,000 euros.
The award is named after the poet and classical philologist Johann Heinrich Voss , who was the first to translate the Iliad and Homer's Odyssey from ancient Greek into German. The jury has a term of three years and currently (2020) consists of Iso Camartin , Aris Fioretos , Daniel Göske , Susanne Lange , Gabriele Leupold , Ernst Osterkamp and Anne Weber .
The prize should not be confused with the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Literature and Politics .
List of award winners
- 1958: Edwin Muir and Willa Muir
- 1959: Benno Geiger
- 1960: EK Rahsin (Elisabeth "Less" Kaerrick)
- 1961: Jakob Hegner
- 1962: Rudolf Alexander Schröder
- 1963: Friedhelm Kemp
- 1964: Michael Hamburger
- 1965: Wolfgang Schadewaldt
- 1966: Eva Rechel-Mertens , Philippe Jaccottet
- 1967: Witold Wirpsza , Karl Dedecius
- 1968: Eva Hesse
- 1969: Hans Hennecke
- 1970: Janheinz Jahn
- 1971: Karl August Horst
- 1972: Elmar Tophoven
- 1973: Peter Gan (Richard Moering)
- 1974: Peter Urban
- 1975: Curt Meyer-Clason
- 1976: Hanns Grössel
- 1977: Edwin Maria Landau
- 1978: College of translators for the German Thomas von Aquin edition
- 1979: Gerda Scheffel and Helmut Scheffel
- 1980: Annemarie Schimmel
- 1981: Wolfgang Kasack
- 1982: Heinz von Sauter
- 1983: Rolf-Dietrich Keil
- 1984: Anneliese Botond
- 1985: Elisabeth Schnack
- 1986: Hanno Helbling
- 1987: Rudolf Wittkopf
- 1988: Traugott König
- 1989: Michael Walter
- 1990: Manfred Fuhrmann
- 1991: Fritz Vogelgsang
- 1992: Simon Werle
- 1993: Roswitha Matwin-Buschmann
- 1994: Werner von Koppenfels
- 1995: Rosemarie Tietze
- 1996: Joachim Kalka
- 1997: Hans-Horst Henschen
- 1998: Gustav Just
- 1999: Harry Rowohlt
- 2000: Armin Eidherr
- 2001: Burkhart Kroeber
- 2002: Gisela Perlet
- 2003: Hans Wolf
- 2004: Michael von Albrecht
- 2005: Elisabeth Edl
- 2006: Ralph Dutli
- 2007: Stefan Weidner
- 2008: Verena Reichel
- 2009: Susanne Lange
- 2010: Zsuzsanna Gahse
- 2011: Frank Günther
- 2012: Gabriele Leupold
- 2013: Wolfgang Kubin
- 2014: Sabine Stöhr
- 2015: Anne Birkenhauer
- 2016: Anne Weber
- 2017: Renate Schmidgall
- 2018: Wolfgang Schlueter
- 2019: Kurt Steinmann
- 2020: Ernest Wichner
criticism
In 1988, the translating magazine noticed that the prize had been awarded 31 times, but only five times to women. There were three divided prizes between a woman and a man, a total of 20% women. At that time, the magazine estimated the proportion of female translators among all full-time translators at 60%. In the 31 years from 1989 to 2019, the award went to a woman twelve times.
Individual evidence
- ^ Commission for the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation. In: deutscheakademie.de. February 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release of the Deutsche Akademie from December 18, 2015
- ^ Deutsche Akademie honors translators , FAZ , February 25, 2017, p. 13
- ↑ Prize winners 2020. In: deutscheakademie.de. February 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ^ Translate , box p. 8
Web links
- Johann Heinrich Voß Prize (including speeches of thanks, laudations and documentary texts) on the homepage of the German Academy for Language and Poetry