Klaus Binder

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Klaus Binder (* 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German editor and translator .

Career

Binder studied philosophy, sociology and German at the University of Frankfurt and received his doctorate in 1977 under Alfred Schmidt on the concept of work under Karl Marx . It was then that he wrote his first translation: Herbert Marcuse Some Social Consequences of Modern Technology (1941; in: Schriften Bd. 3 Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1979).

After graduating, he worked as a lecturer in adult education at the adult education centers in Frankfurt and Ulm. He had lectureships at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Kassel and Bremen . He edited Max Raphael's writings at Qumran Verlag . He publishes book reviews, essays and radio essays ( FAZ , Kursbuch , HR , SWF ).

From 1984 to 1991 he was an editor at Luchterhand Verlag . In 1991 he founded the Textkontor, since then has been working as a freelance editor, copywriter and translator from English, since 1997 in close collaboration with Bernd Leineweber. Since 2007 he has only been doing translations for publishers, galleries, the Fritz Bauer Institute , and the magazines Eastern Europe and Cicero and others.

With his new translation of Lucretius ' Über die Natur der Dinge - a follow-up project to the translation of Stephen Greenblatt's book Die Wende - Klaus Binder was shortlisted for the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair in the "Translation" category. He has presented his Lucretian translations with readings and lectures in various literature houses, at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2014, in the Einstein House in Potsdam and in bookshops.

About his work he says: "I feel honored where there is a new world to discover with (almost) every book."

Translations, a selection (from approx. 70 titles)

  • Martin Gayford Michelangelo His long, adventurous life (with Bernd Leineweber and Britta Schröder), Piet Meyer Verlag 2019
  • Cyprian Broodbank The birth of the Mediterranean world. From the beginnings to the classical age (with Bernd Leineweber and Britta Schröder), CH Beck 2018
  • Stephen Greenblatt The Story of Adam and Eve. The most powerful myth of mankind , Siedler Verlag 2018
  • Neil MacGregor Germany. Memories of a Nation , CH Beck 2015
  • Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things , Galiani Berlin 2014
  • Simon Winder The Emperor's lumber room. On the way through the Habsburg history. (with Bernd Leineweber and Nele Quegwer), Rowohlt 2014
  • Giovanni Frazetto The code of feeling. Deciphering our emotions. (with Bernd Leineweber and Nele Quegwer), Hanser 2014
  • David Sylvester A conversation with Philip Guston , Piet Meyer Verlag 2013
  • Neil MacGregor Shakespeare's Restless World , CH Beck 2013
  • Devin O. Pendas : The Auschwitz Trial. Genocide in court. (with Bernd Leineweber), Siedler 2013
  • Stephen Greenblatt The turning point. How the Renaissance began , Settlers 2012
  • ders., Hamlets Purgatory , Suhrkamp 2008
  • ders., Shakespeare. Freedom, Beauty and the Limits of Hate. Frankfurt Adorno Lectures 2006 , Suhrkamp 2007
  • ders., Dirty Rites (with Jeremy Gaines), Wagenbach 1991
  • Yehuda Bauer The Death of the Shtetl , Jüdischer Verlag 2013
  • ders. Ransom from Jews. Negotiations between National Socialist Germany and Jewish representatives 1933–1945 (with Jeremy Gaines), Jüdischer Verlag 1996
  • Siegfried Kracauer Essays from the American Years , Volume 2.2 of the works in nine volumes (with Bernd Leineweber), Suhrkamp 2012
  • Mary Ann Caws Pablo Picasso. A portrait , Piet Meyer Verlag 2011
  • Michael Peppiatt talks at night. Francis Bacon on his work , Piet Meyer Verlag 2011 (including the essays)
  • Ian Kershaw The End. Fight to the end - Nazi Germany 1944/45 (with Bernd Leineweber and Martin Pfeiffer), DVA 2011 Pantheon: Munich 2013
  • Toby Lester The symmetry of the world. Leonardo da Vinci and the secret of his most famous drawing , Berlin Verlag 2012
  • ders., The Fourth Continent. How a map changed the world (with Bernd Leineweber), Berlin Verlag 2010
  • Cecil Lewis rifleman climbing. With an essay by GB Shaw and a biographical afterword by Klaus Binder , Die Andere Bibliothek - Eichborn 2009
  • Eli Zaretsky Freud's Century. The history of psychoanalysis (with Bernd Leineweber), Zsolnay / Hanser 2006
  • David Crowe Oskar Schindler. The biography (with Bernd Leineweber), Eichborn 2005
  • Neal Gabler A realm of its own. How Jewish émigrés invented Hollywood (with Bernd Leineweber), Berlin Verlag 2004
  • Robert Dallek John F. Kennedy. An unfinished life (with Bernd Leineweber), DVA 2003
  • Kay Redfield Jamison When it gets dark. Understanding suicide (with Bernd Leineweber), Siedler 2000
  • Ian Buruma Inheritance of Debt. Coming to terms with the past in Germany and Japan (with Jeremy Gaines), Hanser 1994

literature

  • Burkhard Müller : Nature is so sensual , in: DIE ZEIT , November 13, 2014
  • Arno Widmann : Back to the future with Lucretius . Conversation with Klaus Binder. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 22, 2014; and: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 18, 2014
  • Harald Loch: Everything becoming and passing away , in: Neues Deutschland , November 22, 2014
  • De rerum natura - report for the Erlangen translator's workshop, 2014
  • Texts for the Lucretian symposium Of bright light, however, my verses. Lucretius and his readers - Einsteinforum in November 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de/de/Archiv/2015/
  2. ^ Preview by Piet Meyer Verlag, Bern / Vienna, spring 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany