Karin Kersten
Karin Kersten (* 1943 in Braunschweig ) is a German writer and translator who lives in Berlin .
Life
Karin Kersten grew up in Braunschweig and studied German and English at the University of Göttingen , later comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin . Kersten has been working as a literary translator since the early 1970s. At first she translated texts from French , now mainly from English . In addition, she wrote contributions for various radio stations and poetry . Her first novel was published in 2005.
Awards
Works
- The excited. Klöpfer and Meyer, Tübingen 2005 ISBN 3-937667-66-0
- Tall fir trees. Klöpfer and Meyer, Tübingen 2007 ISBN 3-937667-90-3
- Sleep was out of the question. Klöpfer and Meyer, Tübingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-86351-003-9
Translations (selection)
- Need for communism. Berlin 1971
- Tzvetan Todorov : Introduction to Fantastic Literature. Munich 1972
- Charles Méré : The Marquis de Sade. Berlin 1977
- André de Lorde : A lesson in the Salpétrière. Berlin 1977
- : The Dr. Goudron and Professor Plume. Berlin 1977
- Djuna Barnes : The night in the woods. Berlin 1984
- Portraits. Berlin 1985.
- Ladies' almanac. Berlin 1985.
- Passion. Berlin 1986.
- Saturnalia. Berlin 1987.
- New York. Berlin 1987.
- Paris, Joyce, Paris. Berlin 1988.
- As long as there are women, how should something go wrong? Berlin 1991.
- Bell Pepper Johnson and Other Stories. Berlin 1989.
- Christopher Hope : Kruger Alp. Munich 1986.
- John Berger : And our faces, my heart, ephemeral like photos. Munich 1986.
- Cecelia Holland : Pillar of Heaven. Munich 1987.
- Doris Lessing : Homecoming. Stuttgart 1988.
- Virginia Woolf : The drive out. Frankfurt / Main 1989.
- To the lighthouse . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1991, ISBN 3-10-092553-X .
- Flush . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1993, ISBN 3-10-092521-1 .
- Brenda Maddox: Nora. Cologne 1990.
- Alexandra Ripley : Scarlett. Hamburg 1991.
- Fay Weldon : The power of love. Hamburg 1992.
- Devil's wife. Hamburg 1993.
- Joanna Trollope : The twin sisters. Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-8333-0655-6 .
- Michael Ridpath : The speculator. Hamburg 1995.
- Brian Hall : Saskia's way. Hamburg 1996.
- Alan Isler : The Prince of West End Avenue. Berlin 1996.
- Jayne Anne Phillips: Summer Camp. Frankfurt / Main 1996.
- Esther Freud : Summer in Gaglow. Hamburg 1998.
- Amy Bloom : The girl in the fur coat. Hamburg 1998.
- Patricia Daniels Cornwell : source of fire. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-455-40169-1 .
- Francine Prose: Cunning. Zurich 2001.
- with Senta Metz
- Herbert Dieckmann : Diderot and the Enlightenment. Stuttgart 1972 (partly, author partly wrote in German).
- with Caroline Neubaur
- Georges Devereux : Anxiety and Method in the Behavioral Sciences. Munich 1973.
- Philippe Ariès : Childhood Story . Munich 1975.
- Carlos Fuentes : All cats are gray. Berlin 1976.
- Susan Sontag : Illness as a Metaphor . Munich 1978.
- Ways of Anti-Oedipus. Frankfurt 1978.
- with Jutta Prasse
- The daughters of Karl Marx. Cologne 1981.
- with Iris Wagner
- Doris Lessing : Martha Quest. Stuttgart 1981.
- A real marriage. Stuttgart 1982.
- Storm sign. Stuttgart 1983.
- Landlocked. Stuttgart 1983.
- The four-gate city. Stuttgart 1984.
Web links
- Literature by Karin Kersten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karin Kersten on kloepfer-meyer.de
notes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kersten, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |