Karin Krieger
Karin Krieger (born October 17, 1958 in Berlin ) is a German literary translator .
Life
Karin Krieger completed a degree in Romance studies in Berlin, which she completed in 1981 with a diploma in Italian literature . She then worked as a translator for a press agency . In 1988 she began translating literary texts. She lives in Berlin.
Karin Krieger mainly translates narrative and essayistic texts from Italian and French . In the years 1999 to 2004, in order to protect her moral rights, she conducted a test case against Piper Verlag , after the Kriegers company had taken translations of Alessandro Baricco's works out of the trade due to fee disputes and replaced them with new translations; she won this trial in 2004 in the last instance before the Federal Court of Justice .
Karin Krieger has repeatedly received grants from the German Translation Fund . She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.
Awards
- 2011–2013: Hieronymusring for special achievements in literary translation by the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ. She passed this challenge on to Frank Heibert .
Translations
- Roberto Alajmo : See Palermo and Die , Hanser, Munich 2007
- Nathacha Appanah : The Last Brother , Knaus, Munich 2009
- Yolande Baillet: Impressionism , Eichborn, Frankfurt 1994
- Anna Banti : I am writing to you from a distant country , List, Munich 1997
- Alessandro Baricco : Hegel's Soul or The Cows of Wisconsin , Piper, Munich 2001
- Alessandro Baricco: Land of Glass , Piper, Munich 1998
- Alessandro Baricco: Novecento , Piper, Munich 1999
- Alessandro Baricco: Oceano mare , Piper, Munich 2001
- Alessandro Baricco: Silk , Piper, Munich 1997
- Boulevards . Siedler, Berlin 1997 (with Heinrich von Berenberg)
- Aldo Buzzi : Chekhov in Sondrio , Hanser, Munich 1995
- Pino Cacucci : Tina , Diogenes, Zurich 1993
- Andrea Camilleri : The Revolution of the Moon , Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2014
- Andrea Camilleri: The Temptation , Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2016
- Roberto Cotroneo : This love , island, Frankfurt 2008
- Roberto Cotroneo: Ask me who the Beatles are , Insel, Frankfurt 2006
- Roberto Cotroneo: The years made of lead , Insel, Berlin 2010
- Roberto Cotroneo: Tempestad , Insel, Frankfurt 2003
- Roberto Cotroneo: The perfect age , Insel, Frankfurt 2000
- Giuseppe Farese: Arthur Schnitzler , CH Beck, Munich 1999
- Maxence Fermine: Honig , Claassen, Munich 2001
- Elena Ferrante : My brilliant friend , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016
- Elena Ferrante: The Story of a New Name , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017
- Elena Ferrante: The story of the separate ways , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017
- Elena Ferrante: The story of the lost child , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018
- Elena Ferrante: Annoying love , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018
- Giorgio Fontana : In the Name of Justice , Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2013
- Giorgio Fontana: Death of a Happy Person , Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2015
- Ernesto Franco: Five buttons made of silk , DVA, Stuttgart 2001
- Agop J. Hacikyan: Beyond the Dawn , Heyne, Munich 1995
- Giulio Leoni: Dante and the Mosaic of Death , Zsolnay, Vienna 2006
- Giulio Leoni: The tomb of the Popess , Zsolnay, Vienna 2010
- Jacqueline Loumaye: Edgar Degas , Eichborn, Frankfurt / M. 1993
- Claudio Magris : Another Sea , Hanser, Munich 1992
- Claudio Magris: A hippopotamus in Lund , Hanser, Munich 2009
- Claudio Magris: Utopia and Disenchantment (together with Ragni Maria Gschwend et al.), Hanser, Munich 2002
- Françoise Mallet-Joris : The Secret of the Writer (together with Josef Winiger ), List, Munich 1998
- Armando Massarenti: dwarf throwing and other philosophical exercises , Insel, Frankfurt 2009
- Margaret Mazzantini : The Sea in the Morning , Dumont, Cologne 2012
- Margaret Mazzantini: The most beautiful word in the world , Dumont, Cologne 2011
- Margaret Mazzantini: Nobody can save themselves , Dumont, Cologne 2013
- Margaret Mazzantini: Glory , Dumont, Cologne, 2015
- Furio Monicelli: The perfect Jesuit , Hanser, Munich 2000
- Chantal Pelletier : Days with Romy , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004
- Pia Pera: The fruits of serenity , Sanssouci, Munich 2004
- Yves Pinguilly: Leonardo da Vinci , Eichborn, Frankfurt 1993
- Giuseppe Pontiggia: Two Lives . Hanser, Munich 2002
- Ugo Riccarelli : The perfect pain , Zsolnay, Vienna 2006
- Ugo Riccarelli: The magician . Zsolnay, Vienna 2009
- Vercors : The silence of the sea . Diogenes, Zurich 1999
- Philippe Vigand: Damned silence . Diana, Munich 1999
- Hélène Visconti: Strange . Knaus, Munich 2010
- Ornela Vorpsi : The hand that you don't bite . Zsolnay, Vienna 2010
Web links
- Krieger in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, 2019
- Report on Karin Krieger (2002) , by Birk Meinhardt (PDF; 110 kB)
- VdÜ press release on the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court in the Karin Krieger trial against Piper-Verlag on translator rights
- Literature by and about Karin Krieger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Karin Krieger (2017) , by Alex Rühle in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Fog trails. Interview with Karin Krieger about Elena Ferrante's “Outing”, in: Der Spiegel , October 8, 2016
- Not everything is translatable. Interview with Karin Krieger before the publication of the last volume of the Neapolitan saga , in: Mannheimer Morgen , December 30, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of the award winners Hieronymusring . Seen on August 9, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warrior, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |