Johannes Piron

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Johannes Piron (center) - The Hague, 1963

Johannes Piron (born June 23, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main , † before June 1993 ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Johannes Piron was the son of an interior designer . He attended schools in Switzerland and the Netherlands . From the late 1930s to the early 1940s he was a student at the Quaker School in Eerde , where he met Wolfgang Cordan in 1941 . Together with him he helped some Jewish students flee from the Quaker school and saved them from being transported to a concentration camp. Until the end of the German occupation he was active together with Cordan in the Dutch resistance against the Germans:

“He looked like a young Conte of the Renaissance. He looked Italian. We took advantage of that. In the years to come, Germans, wearing a jacket over a black blouse, took him for an Italian fascist. More than once he was toasted to him from side tables in pubs. With the French name and German passport, along with fascist clothing, he was never in serious danger, except for those whom he himself sought in the resistance. "

From 1945 to 1947 Johannes Piron was part of the editorial team of the cultural magazine Centaur, published by Wolfgang Cordan in Amsterdam . He then worked as an educator at the d'École Humanité in Swiss place Hasliberg operates. From 1953 he lived as a freelance translator in Berlin .

Johannes Piron has translated a large number of fiction texts in a wide variety of genres from Dutch , English , French and Italian . In 1963 he received the Dutch Martinus Nijhoff Prize for his translations of Dutch poetry , and in 1976 the book he had translated Die Wächter by John Christopher was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize.

Works

  • Color games , Frankfurt-M. 1954

Translations (selection)

literature

  • Wolfgang Cordan: The mat. Autobiographical notes , in the appendix: Days with Antonio , MännerschwarmSkript Verlag, Hamburg, 2003, ISBN 3-935596-33-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Piron is listed as deceased in the necrology of the biographical reference work "Who is who", issue 32. 1993/94, the editorial deadline of June 15, 1993. An exact date of death could not be determined
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Cordan: Die Matte , p. 179.
personal data
SURNAME Piron, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH before June 1993