Karl-Heinz Jähn

Karl-Heinz Jähn (born March 20, 1932 in Gumbinnen / East Prussia ) is a German translator .

Life

After a study of Slavic Studies at Berlin's Humboldt University , graduating with a diploma, Karl-Heinz Jähn as was publishing editor operates. Since the 1960s he has translated numerous works from Czech , Slovak and Russian into German . Jähn lives in Berlin .

Karl-Heinz Jähn is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . For his translation work he received a. a. The Czech Vítězslav Nezval Prize in 1984 , the L'udmila Podjavorinská plaque in 1991 and the Paul Celan Prize in 1997 .

Editing

• The island for six thousand alarm clocks , Berlin 1978
• 24 Czech and Slovak storytellers , Berlin 1979
• A hole to the world , Munich 1980
• Hana Prošková : The moon with the pipe , Berlin 1980
• Karel Čapek : Travel Pictures , Berlin [u. a.] 1983
• The ride on the sleeping giant , Berlin 1985
• Jaroslav Seifert : Vermouth of Words , Berlin 1985
• The Prague Coffee House , literary dinner parties , translated by Reinhard E. Fischer , photos by Věra Dyková and Radko Pytlík. Volk und die Welt, Berlin 1988, 2nd edition 1990, ISBN 3-353-00320-7 .

Translations

• Zdeněk Adla : 100 drops , Berlin 1978
• Zdeněk Adla: Colorful drops , Berlin 1966
• Josef Bartoš : ČSM , Berlin 1960
• Konstantin Biebl : At a funeral meal , Munich 2003
• Konstantin Biebl: The first palm , Munich 2002
• Konstantin Biebl: In memoriam Jiří Wolker , Munich 2003
• Konstantin Biebl: Plancius , Berlin 2000
• Konstantin Biebl: Slavětín , Munich 2003
• Konstantin Biebl: Where we want to live now , Munich 2002
• Konstantin Biebl: Wolker , Munich 2006
• Jaroslava Blažková : Fireworks for grandpa , Berlin 1966
• Karel Čapek: Daschenka or The Life of a Dog Child , Leipzig 1995
• Karel Čapek: How a play is created and a guide through the world of scenery , Berlin 1975
• Ivan Cigánek : Lidice , Prague 1982
• Hana Doskočilová : The Mole in Winter , Leipzig 1999
• Hana Doskočilová: How the mole healed the mouse , Leipzig 2001
• Mária Ďuríčková : Siblings from Stiefelheim , Berlin 1969
• Václav Dušek : Days for the Katz , Berlin 1983
• Václav Erben : Materna's last role , Berlin 1991
• Václav Erben: The Dead in the Foyer , Berlin 1972
• Song of love for life. Czech poetry of the present. Edited by Manfred Jähnichen. Artist. Equipment by Václav Blaha. Artia-Verlag, Prague 1983 [Vorw. by Manfred Jähnichen u. Short biographies of Oldřich Rafaj, Josef Peterka . The interlinear trans. worried Karl-Heinz Jähn].
• František Halas : The rooster scares away the darkness , Berlin 1970
• Olga Hejná : Josefinchen , Berlin 1987
• Bohumil Hrabal : Bambini di Praga , Frankfurt am Main 1982
• Bohumil Hrabal: Erzählungen , Berlin 1984
• Bohumil Hrabal: Das Haaropfer , Berlin 1983
• Bohumil Hrabal: I served the English king , Frankfurt am Main, 1988
• Bohumil Hrabal: The cat Autitschko , Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Bohumil Hrabal: Life without Smoking , Frankfurt am Main 1993
• Bohumil Hrabal: Sharply monitored trains , Berlin 1982
• Bohumil Hrabal: Snowdrop Festival , Berlin 1990
• Bohumil Hrabal: The Death of Mr. Baltisberger , Berlin 1970
• Bohumil Hrabal: Selling a house that I no longer want to live in , Frankfurt am Main 1994
• Bohumil Hrabal: Do you want to see the Golden Prague? , Berlin 1981
• Klára Jarunková : The dog that had a boy , Berlin 1978
• Klára Jarunková: Tom the cat, who wasn't afraid of the dark , Berlin 1982
• Klára Jarunková: The tongue that refused to speak , Berlin 1973
• Franz Kafka : Letters to the parents from the years 1922–1924 , Prague 1990
• Jaromír Kincl : The little reed man and the pond , Leipzig 2000
• Pavel Kohout : I snow , Munich 1992
• Pavel Kohout: The long wave behind the Kiel , Munich 2000
• Pavel Kohout: My wife and her husband , Munich 1998
• Pavel Kohout: The murderer's great moment , Berlin 1995
• Pavel Kohout: Zyanid at five , Berlin 1996
• Jiří Marek : Der Brandstifter , Berlin 1988 (translated together with Gustav Just )
• Jiří Marek: Men walk in the dark , Berlin 1964
• Jiří Marek: Panopticon of old criminal cases , Berlin 1971 (translated together with Gustav Just)
• Jiří Marek : Panopticon of the Old Town Prague , Berlin 1981 (translated together with Gustav Just)
• Jiří Marek: Panopticon of Sinful People , Berlin 1974 (translated together with Gustav Just)
• Kryštof Matouš : About the ant horse and the beetle clumsy , Leipzig 2000
• Kryštof Matouš: About the ant horse and his horse , Leipzig 1998
• Kryštof Matouš: About the horse ant and his brave friends , Leipzig 1999
• Zdeněk Miler : The mole celebrates Christmas , Leipzig 2001
• Zdeněk Miler: The Mole and the Eagle , Leipzig 1997
• Zdeněk Miler: The Mole and the Television , Leipzig 2004
• Zdeněk Miler: The Mole and the Green Star , Leipzig 2001
• Zdeněk Miler: The Mole and the Little Snowman , Leipzig 2001
• Zdeněk Miler: The Mole and the Umbrella , Leipzig 2004
• Zdeněk Miler: The Mole and the Rabbit Family , Leipzig 2002
• Zdeněk Miler: From the mole and his friends , Leipzig 1998
• Vítězslav Nezval : The Prague Walker , Berlin 1984
• Josef A. Novotný : The Mole in the City , Leipzig 1997
• Eduard Petiška : The mole and his little car , Leipzig 1996
• Eduard Petiška: How the mole got his pants , Leipzig 1995
• Mária Rázusová-Martáková : Jánošík, the hero of the mountains , Berlin 1969
• Miroslav Skála : Honeymoon to St. Aegidien , Berlin 1976
• Miroslav Skála: Journey around my head in forty days , Berlin 1982
• Josef Škvorecký : Feiglinge , Neuwied [u. a.] 1968
• Donors reloaded. A dozen colored stones . Edited by Network memoria. Picus-Verl., Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85452-486-2 .
• Jaroslav Tafel : My hot summer with Sherlock Holmes , Aarau [u. a.] 1997
• Thousand-eyed these houses. Prague u. Berlin in poetry a. Prose. Edited by Drahomíra Vlašínová. Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin 1985 [d. Prague Foreign worried Drahomíra Vlašinová. Prose trans. u. Interlinear from d. Czech: Karl-Heinz Jähn. Re-poems by Waldemar Dege . The Berlin-Ausw. met Annegret Herzberg . Ill .: Rastislav Michal u. Herbert Tucholski ].
• Hana Zelinová : dot noses , Berlin 1985