Josef Winiger

Josef Winiger in August 2007.

Josef Winiger (* 1943 in Kestenholz ) is a Swiss translator and author .

Life

Winiger was born in the canton of Solothurn and grew up there. He studied philosophy , sociology and psychology in Paris and Aix-en-Provence for four years , from 1969 in Munich . In 1977 he received his doctorate, supervised by Ernesto Grassi , with a thesis on Feuerbach's path to humanism . He then worked for two years at the Munich Adult Education Center before becoming a freelance translator. He mainly translates from French into German.

Winiger is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, as well as a member of the Munich Translators' Forum and the Association of the Assises de la Traduction Littéraire en Arles , ATLAS.

Awards

Winiger (second from left) with the 2007 Zedler Medal

• 1999: Translation Prize from the CH Beck publishing house
• 2006: Prix ​​lémanique de la traduction
• 2007: Johann Heinrich Zedler Medal for his Wikipedia article on the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach.

Fonts

Monographs

• Josef Winiger: Feuerbach's path to humanism. To the genesis of anthropological materialism . Fink, Munich 1979 ISBN 3-7705-1660-5 also dissertation Munich 1977
• Josef Winiger: Ludwig Feuerbach, thinker of humanity . New edition with bibliography and register of persons. Lambert Schneider Verlag, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-650-24030-9
• Several contributions to the history of the association as well as a group interview (also with Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel , Brigitte Große ) in: Souveräne Bridge Builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators. Literary for the Association of German translator of scientific works, federal division translator of VS in ver.di . Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Special issue language in the technical age , SpritZ. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2014 ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN  0038-8475

Translations

• Alex Varoux: Not tonight, darling. Detective novel . Heyne, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-453-10672-5
• Kenneth White: The white land. Essays . Dianus-Trikont, Munich 1984 ISBN 3-88167-105-6
• Antoine Borromée (photos), Sandra Palmer (text): China's path between dream and reality . Dianus-Trikont, Munich 1984 ISBN 3-88167-106-4
• André Glucksmann : The power of stupidity . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-421-06293-5 (co-translation)
• Conrad Stein: Paragraphs. Psychoanalytic seminar . Diskord, Tübingen 1986 ISBN 3-88769-514-3
• Robert Delort : The elephant, the bee and the holy wolf. The true story of animals . Hanser, Munich 1987 ISBN 3-446-14847-7
• Jean-François Bergier : Wilhelm Tell. Reality and myth . List, Munich 1988 ISBN 3-471-77168-9
• Georges Simenon : Maigret and the notary of Château-Neuf . In: Madame Maigret's lover. 4 cases for Maigret . Diogenes, Zurich 1989 ISBN 3-257-21791-9
• Georges Simenon: Maigret and the Clochard . Novel . Diogenes, Zurich 1989 ISBN 3-257-21801-X
• Georges Simenon: Maigret and the knife cutter . Novel . Diogenes, Zurich 1990 ISBN 3-257-21805-2
• Georges Simenon: The calamity. Novel . Diogenes, Zurich 1992 ISBN 3-257-22503-2
• Georges Simenon: The regular guest. Novel . Diogenes, Zurich 1992 ISBN 3-257-22506-7
• Sylvie Germain : The Medusa child. Novel . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1992 ISBN 3-352-00450-1
• Julien Green : The Message in a Bottle (1972-1976) . In: Julien Green: Diaries. 1972-1981 . List, Munich 1994 ISBN 3-471-77669-9
• Maurice Lever: Marquis de Sade. The biography . Europaverlag, Vienna 1995 ISBN 3-203-51238-6 (co-translation)
• Marek Halter : In search of the 36 righteous . Conversations with the real heroes of this century . List, Munich 1997 ISBN 3-471-79336-4 (co-translation)
• Peter Knaup and Jacques Lamalle: The Châteaux des Médoc . Heyne, Munich 1998 ISBN 3-453-13785-X
• André Comte-Sponville : Encouragement to live out of time. A little breviary of virtues and values . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998 ISBN 3-498-00911-7 (co-translation)
• Jean-François Bergier : Switzerland in Europe. Contemporary thoughts of a historian . Pendo, Zurich 1998 ISBN 3-85842-333-5
• Florence Montreynaud: Love. A century of love and passion . Taschen, Cologne 1998 ISBN 3-8228-7608-9 (co-translation)
• Françoise Mallet-Joris: The Secret of the Writer. Novel . List, Munich 1998 ISBN 3-471-79363-1 (co-translation)
• Jean Rouaud : The china shop. Novel . Piper, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-492-23446-1
• Janine Gass, Laurent Gobat (eds.): Visites à Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Etudes et témoignages = A visit to Friedrich Dürrenmatt . Nouvelle Revue Neuchâteloise, Neuchâtel 2000
• Laurent Mauvignier: Far from you . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2001 ISBN 3-8218-0698-2
• Jean Rouaud: My old lovers. Novel . Piper, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-492-27031-X
• Jean Rouaud: More than just storytelling . In: Ursula Keller , Ilma Rakusa (Ed.): Europe writes. What is European in the literatures of Europe? Essays from 33 European countries . Edition Körber Foundation , Hamburg 2003 ISBN 3-89684-328-1
• Laurent Mauvignier: Find an end. Novel . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004 ISBN 3-8218-0706-7
• Dietmar Bartz (editor): Atlas of globalization . taz -Verlag, Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-937683-07-2 (co-translation)
• Joëlle Kuntz: Swiss history - once different . Tobler, Altstätten 2009 ISBN 978-3-85612-174-7

Web links

Commons : Josef Winiger  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Josef Winiger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Own website
• Entry in the translator directory of the VdÜ , 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zedler-Medaille-fuer-Wikipedia-Beitrag-ueber-Ludwig-Feuerbach-165773.html