Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke

Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke (born December 11, 1950 in Enge , North Friesland ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke put 1970 his matriculation examination in Bielefeld , and studied then the subjects Scandinavian , German and American studies at universities in Kiel , Uppsala , Berlin and Turku . Since 1974 he has lived in Berlin as a freelance writer and translator .

Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke mainly works as a translator from Swedish . He was particularly prominent as a translator of Gunnar Ekelöf's lyric works . In addition, Liedtke publishes his own literary works and acts as the editor of literary anthologies as well as the virtual Baltic Sea Library.

Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke is a member of the PEN Center Germany and of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ. He helped set up the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators in Visby, Sweden, and was Chairman of the Baltic Writers Council from 2005 to 2009 and of the Three Seas Writers 'and Translators' Council from 2001 to 2007 . In addition to numerous scholarships, Liedtke received the following awards: in 1992 a prize from the Swedish Writer's Fund , in 1993 the "Natur-och-Kultur" translation prize from the Swedish Academy , in 2004 the Translation Prize from the Swedish Academy, in 2005 the Paul Celan Prize and in 2008 the Federal Cross of Merit . In 2014 he was awarded the Gerard Bonnier Prize endowed with 200,000 Swedish kronor . In 2016 he received the Mikael Lybeck Prize from the Finland-Swedish Writers' Union.

Works

• Music Movement in Sweden - Progressive? alternatively? or what? Munich 1979
• Chunks of death . Berlin 1991 (together with Matts Husser)
• E . Berlin 1998 (together with Roland Albrecht)
• Shards of life, chunks of death . Berlin 2001
• The sunken world . Frankfurt 2008, The Other Library series ; as an e-book
• Postwar and the rubble of East Prussia . Berlin 2018, The Other Library series
• August Strindberg in Stockholm . Berlin 2019, Series People and Places. Edition AB Fischer [1]

Editing

• Navigare , Visby 1999
• Översätt inte ett levande språk till ett dött , Alexandria 2005
• Edith Södergran, I am fire myself. Letters and poems read by Meriam Abbas (audio book), Münster 2013
• Finland-Swedish literature of the avant-garde in 5 volumes (Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius, Rabbe Enckell, Gunnar Björling, Henry Parland), Münster 2014
• Gunnar Ekelöf: Dīwān on the Prince of Emgión , read by Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke (audio book), Münster 2016
• Gunnar Ekelöf: The book Fatumeh , read by Meriam Abbas and Joachim Bliese (audio book), Münster 2016
• The Baltic Sea. Reports and stories from 2000 years . Berlin 2018

Translations

• Carl JL Almqvist : The Queen's Jewelery , Berlin 2005
• Ernst Brunner : Brother's Guardian , Mönkeberg 1988
• Bo Carpelan : Axel , Münster 1997
• Sven Delblanc : Selma Lagerlöf , Stockholm, 1986
• Design art , Berlin 1988
• Elmer Diktonius : Janne Kubik , Stuttgart 1990
• Eric Dyring : Sweden after Chernobyl , Stockholm 1987
• Vivi Edström : Astrid Lindgren , Stockholm 1987
• Gunnar Ekelöf : Das Buch Fatumeh , Münster 1992
• Gunnar Ekelöf: Dīwān on the Prince of Emgión , Münster 1991
• Gunnar Ekelöf: Guide to the Underworld , Münster 1995
• Gunnar Ekelöf: The heretical Orpheus , Münster 1999
• Gunnar Ekelöf: Fährgesang , Münster 2003
• Gunnar Ekelöf: Unfoug , Münster 2001
• Gunnar Ekelöf: A broken wooden box , Münster 2004
• Ingrid Elam : New Prose from Sweden , Stockholm 2004
• Horace Engdahl : Meteore , Münster 2007
• Horace Engdahl: The cigarette afterwards , Münster 2013
• Kjell Espmark : The living are without graves / De levande har inga gravar , Münster 2006
• Kjell Espmark: Milky Way / Vintergata , Münster 2011
• Ulf Peter Hallberg : The view of the flaneurs , Leipzig 1995
• Olav Christopher Jenssen : Estimation , Münster 1997
• Olav Christopher Jenssen : Tarragon , Göttingen 2018 (Lower Saxony Foundation: Contemporary Art from Lower Saxony Volume 73)
• Christer Kihlman : Homo tremens , Stuttgart 1985 (translated together with Tine Jansson)
• Per Kirkeby : In Greenland . Münster 2017 ISBN 978-3-945237-05-2
• Maaret Koskinen : Ingmar Bergman , Stockholm, Sweden 1993
• Jan Larsson : Raoul Wallenberg , Stockholm 1988
• Björn Linnell : Some remarks on the literary situation in Sweden today , Stockholm 1987
• Harry Martinson : Traveling Without a Destination. Translated from the Swedish by Verner Arpe and K.-J. Liedtke. Guggolz , Berlin 2017
• Jan Myrdal : Career , Berlin 1977 (together with Einar Schlereth)
• Anders Olsson : Ekelöfs no. The poetic cosmos Gunnar Ekelöfs , Münster 2013
• Håkan Rehnberg : Moira , Münster 1991
• Fredrik Sjöberg : Tomas Tranströmer's insect collection from the island of Runmarö , Münster 2011
• Lennart Sjögren : The Outer Beach , Bromma 1998 (translated with Sarah Kirsch )
• Edith Södergran : The key to all secrets / Nyckeln till alla hemligheter , Berlin 2002
• Edith Södergran: Sharp as Diamonds , Berlin 2003 (translated together with Sieglinde Mierau)
• Göran Sonnevi : The Burning House , Munich 2009
• Göran Sonnevi: language; Tool; Fire , Münster 1989
• Göran Sonnevi: The Impossible , Münster 1988
• Erik Johan Stagnelius : From the darkness of the tribulation / I bedrövelsens mörker , Münster 2013
• August Strindberg : Vom Meer , Berlin 2011
• Karl August Tavaststjerna : Hard Times , Stuttgart 1983; Munich 2014
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen: trembling mirror / Rystet spejl . Münster 2016
• Johan Tralau : Human Twilight , Freiburg [u. a.] 2005
• Triad , Ahrenshoop 2002
• Per Wästberg : Other Life / Andra liv , Münster 2009
• Marijke van Warmerdam : Lila la la , Berlin 1999
• Jörgen Weibull : Swedish History , Stockholm 1994
• Carl-Henning Wijkmark : Who you are not , Berlin 2001
• Carl-Henning Wijkmark: Last Days , Berlin 2002

Web links

• Short biography and information on the work of Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke at Literaturport
• in "Lyrikwelt"
• Liedtke in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
• Elke Link portrays Liedtke on the occasion of the award of the Federal Cross of Merit, in Translate , 1, 2009, p. 7f. (with photo)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bonnier price  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 2015