List of known translators
This is a list of well-known translators .
Specialists can be found at: List of translators from ancient Greek , modern Greek .
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- Bettina Abarbanell , translated from English
- Ruth Achlama , translations from Hebrew
- Wolfgang Adenberg , musicals and plays
- Henning Ahrens , translations from English, a. a. Peter Dickinson , Hugo Hamilton , Don Paterson
- Aegidius Albertinus transferred French, Italian, Latin, Dutch and above all Spanish authors such as Baltasar Gracián
- Johann Georg Albini created verse transfers from Hermann Hugo and Jacob Cats
- Ursel Allenstein , translations from Danish, Swedish and Norwegian
- Manfred Allié , translations from English, a. a. Patrick Leigh Fermor , Richard Powers , Josephine Tey
- Johann Valentin Andreae , from the Latin Lucas Osiander and into Latin Johann Arndt
- Sophie Angermann , translations from Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and English
- Barbara Antkowiak , translations from Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Bosnian, e.g. B. Aleksandar Tišma , Miroslav Krleža and Danilo Kiš
- Anton Ulrich (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) , plays by Pierre Corneille a . a.
- Gottfried Arnold , Latin and Spanish theologians
- HC Artmann , among many other works by HP Lovecraft
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- Otto F. Babler , polyglot translator of z. B. Dante, Poe, Rilke, Mácha, Kafka, Seghers
- Ingeborg Bachmann translated Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Marianne de Barde translated a very large number of works from English for radio and television.
- Kaspar von Barth , works by Pietro Aretino and Fernando de Rojas
- Heike Baryga , translator from Dutch into German
- Sabine Baumann , translator from English and Russian
- Enrique Beck , translator from Spanish, works by Federico García Lorca
- Samuel Beckett , translation of own works (English - French)
- Johann Joseph Beckh broadcast a Latin comedy by Caspar Brülow
- Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach , from the English
- Larissa Bender , translator from Arabic
- Walter Benjamin , works by Marcel Proust and Charles Baudelaire
- Henryk Bereska , translations from Polish
- Paul Berf translates from Scandinavian languages.
- Timo Berger translates from Lusitanian languages.
- Christiane Bergfeld , translations mainly from English
- Matthias Bernegger translated Galileo Galilei from Italian into Latin.
- Susan Bernofsky , American translator from German ( en )
- Helga van Beuningen , translations from Dutch
- AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , translator from Sanskrit into English
- Pieke Biermann , translator from English, author
- Klaus Binder , translated from English and Latin
- Hedwig M. Binder , translated from Scandinavian languages
- Günther Birkenfeld , translated from English, Italian and French
- Sigmund von Birken translated a Latin play by Jacob Masen into German
- Anne Birkenhauer translates from Hebrew, a. a. Works by David Grossman
- Vera Bischitzky , translations from Russian and English
- Cornelius Bischoff translates from Turkish, a. a. many works by Yaşar Kemal
- Ulrich Blumenbach , translations from American and English, a. a. David Foster Wallace
- Hansi Bochow-Blüthgen , translations from American and English
- Friedrich von Bodenstedt
- Walter Boehlich
- Isabel Bogdan , translator from English and author
- Reinhild Böhnke , translations from English, especially JM Coetzee
- Wilfried Böhringer , translations from Spanish
- August Bohse translated novels and letter holders from French.
- Annemarie Böll , translations from English
- Heinrich Böll , German translations of JD Salinger's works, together with his wife
- Eva Bonné translates from English.
- Mirko Bonné , translator from English, poet and writer
- Rudolf Borchardt , Dante translator
- Stefan Borg , translates philosophical works and novels from Russian and Danish into Swedish, a. a. Leo Schestow and Søren Kierkegaard , and has been publishing them himself since 1994 (see Nimrod Förlag )
- Anneliese Botond , translator from French and Spanish
- Helmut M. Braem , translator from English
- Julika Brandestini , translator from Italian and English
- Kirsten Brandt , translator from Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan
- Andreas Brandhorst , translated works by Terry Pratchett
- Irmela Brender , translator from English
- Hans Georg Brenner , translated from French
- Friedrich Christian Bressand translated plays from French, e. B. Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine , as well as opera libretti from Italian
- Elisabeth Brock-Sulzer
- Barthold Heinrich Brockes Germanized James Thomson and Alexander Pope
- Thomas Brovot , translations from Spanish
- Eva Brunner , translations from English and Italian
- Martin Buber , translations from Hebrew. Buber created - mostly together with Franz Rosenzweig - the work Die Schrift , a translation, or better a copy , of the Tanach .
- Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz translated Horace and Lukianos from Samosata .
- Christoph Buchwald translates from Dutch.
- Werner Buhss , polyglot translator
- Anke Caroline Burger , translator from English
- Coletta Bürling , translator from Icelandic
- Albrecht Buschmann , translator from Spanish
- Wolfgang Butt , translator from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic
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- Jean-Claude Capèle (1953–2017), translator from German into French
- Maria Carlsson , translator from English
- Margaret Carroux , works by JRR Tolkien
- Paul Celan
- Martin Chalmers (1948–2014), British translator from German
- Christian II (Anhalt-Bernburg) , translation by Antonio de Guevara
- Gerhardt Csejka , translator from Romanian
- Maria Csollány , translated from Dutch
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- Margrit von Dach , translator from French
- Sigrid Daub , translator from Danish and Norwegian
- Karl Dedecius , works by Polish authors
- Constantin Christian Dedekind translated Jacob Cats from Dutch and Johann Lauremberg from Low German into High German.
- Peter Demetz , works by Czech authors
- Katy Derbyshire translates from German.
- Robin Detje , translations from English
- Paul Deussen , translator from Sanskrit
- Hermann Diels
- Brigitte Döbert translates from Bosnian, English, Croatian and Serbian.
- Ebba D. Drolshagen translates from English, Norwegian and Danish.
- Wilhelm Droste translates from the Hungarian.
- Ralph Dutli
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- Andreas Eck , translator from Dutch
- Liselotte Eder , German translator for Truman Capote , Tennessee Williams a . a .; Mother of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Elisabeth Edl , translator from French
- Sibel Edmonds , former FBI translator of Arabic texts, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC)
- Hanni Ehlers , translator from Dutch and English
- Thomas Eichhorn , translator for Fredy Neptune from Les Murray
- Heinrich Elmenhorst translated libretti from French and Italian, a. a. Pierre Corneille
- Yuri Elperin , translator from Russian
- Sigrid Engeler , translator from Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and English
- Carina von Enzenberg , translator from Spanish, French and English
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger translated WH Auden
- Rolf Erdorf , translator from Dutch
- Nadine Erler , translator from Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and English
- Johann Christoph Ettner translated alchemical and medical texts from Latin and Dutch
- Hedda Eulenberg translated short prose by EA Poe and many others.
- Richard Exner translated texts by Robinson Jeffers , Wallace Stevens and William Butler Yeats into German, and by Heinz Piontek and Günter Bruno Fuchs into English
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- Hartmut Fähndrich , from Arabic
- Horst Fassel , from Romanian
- Johannes Fastenrath , from Spanish
- Barthold Feind translated Jacob Cats and other authors from Dutch, as well as several libretti from Italian
- Christoph Ferber translates from Italian, Russian and French, authors such as Vincenzo Cardarelli , Eugenio Montale , Giorgio Orelli , Sandro Penna , Stéphane Mallarmé and others. a.
- Janko Ferk mainly translates writers from Slovenian
- Sonja Finck , German-Canadian translator from English, Spanish and French
- Tina Flecken , translator from Icelandic, Swedish and English
- Paul Fleming produced a partial translation by Giovanni Battista Guarini
- Holger Fliessbach , translator from English and French
- Günther Frauenlob , translator from Norwegian and Danish
- Mariana Frenk-Westheim
- Ebba-Margareta von Freymann , poems by JRR Tolkien
- Erich Fried , u. a. German translation by Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas
- Shelley Frisch , American translator from German
- Klaus Fritz , German translator of the Harry Potter novels
- Erika Fuchs , German translator of Disney - Comics
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- Zsuzsanna Gahse , translator from Hungarian, a. a. Works by Péter Esterházy
- Efrat Gal-Ed , translator from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic: Mascha Kaléko , Tuvia Rübner , Avraham Ben Yitzhak , Itzik Manger
- Antoine Galland translated the Arabian Nights into French, the first ever translation into a European language
- Swetlana Geier , translator from Russian, including the new translation of Dostoyevsky's great novels
- Stefan George
- Stefanie Gerhold , translator from Spanish
- Hans Egon Gerlach , German translator from English, Norwegian and Swedish, including works by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg
- Martin Gimm , translator from Chinese and Manchurian
- Lew Ginsburg translated a. a. Works by Peter Weiss into Russian
- Helmut Goeb , translator from Dutch, English and French
- Heinz Goldberg , translator from Finnish
- Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt translates from German into French.
- Karin Graf , translator from English
- Georg Greflinger translated several works from French a. a. Pierre Corneille , Dutch and Spanish
- Johann Diederich Gries , translated works by Torquato Tasso , Ludovico Ariosto , Pedro Calderon and other famous foreign-language authors into German for the first time
- Hildegard Grosche , translated from Hungarian
- Brigitte Große , translator from French and English
- Hanns Grössel , translator from French, Danish and Swedish
- Ragni Maria Gschwend , German translator from Italian
- Ní Gudix (actually Gudrun Rupp ), German translator from English and Irish English
- Thomas Gunkel , German translator from English
- Dirk van Gunsteren , German translator from English
- Frank Günther
- Wolfgang Günther
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- Gabriele Haefs
- Gisbert Haefs
- Michael Hamburger has translated numerous plays by William Shakespeare, a. a. Romeo and Juliet, Maß für Maß, Kaufmann von Venice, Macbeth, Was ihr wollt, but also pieces by Sean O'Casey, Arthur Miller, Donald Freed and others. a. as well as, along with Christa Schuenke, True, poetry is also a sin - poems by John Donne
- Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall translated Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature into German
- Peter Handke
- Esther Hansen , translator from Italian and English
- Wolf Harranth , translator from English
- Georg Philipp Harsdörffer has translated English, French, Latin and Spanish authors
- Sophie Hasenclever mainly translated Dante's La Divina Commedia and all of Michelangelo's poems into German
- Friederike Hausmann translates in particular from Italian
- Markus Hediger , translator from French, a. a. Jacques Mercanton , Alice Rivaz , Yvette Z'Graggen
- Jakob Hegner , translator of Christian authors from French and English
- Frank Heibert , German translator from English, French and Portuguese
- David Elias Heidenreich translated drama texts from French and Dutch
- Manfred Peter Hein translated works and texts from Finnish and Czech
- Hanno Helbling translated from Italian, French and English
- Eugen Helmlé , works from French and Spanish
- Hans Hennecke , translator from English and French
- Gerd Henniger , translator from French and English
- Gregor Hens , translator from English
- Hans-Horst Henschen , translator from French and English
- Stephan Hermlin translated English authors such as Shakespeare and Keats
- Rudolf Hermstein , translator from English
- Hans M. Herzog , translator from English
- Eva Hesse , translator from English
- Ernst Heyda , translator from English
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer has translated authors such as Franz Kafka and Stefan George into English as well as English-speaking authors such as James Joyce , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett into German
- Jürgen Hillner , translator from Dutch
- Friedrich Hitzer translated Russian authors like Mikhail Schatrow
- Christian Hoburg transmitted Latin religious works
- Roland Hoffmann , translator from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
- Elise von Hohenhausen translated works by Lord Byron , Walter Scott , Edward Young , Tennyson and Longfellow in the 19th century
- Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau translated Giovanni Battista Guarini
- Vyvyan Holland , translator for French, Spanish, Italian and German; transferred u. a. the works of his father Oscar Wilde in various languages
- Ernst Christoph Homburg transferred Jacob Cats
- Annemarie Horschitz-Horst , German translator of the works of Ernest Hemingway
- Karl August Horst , translator from Spanish ( Jorge Luis Borges ), French, Italian and English
- Annemarie Hübner , Germanist and translator, transferred a. a. To Rutgers in German and gave an opinion before German courts about the authenticity of the source of the German translation of Anne Frank's diary
- Tobias Hübner translated several works from French
- Max Hummeltenberg , translator of numerous children's books from Russian
- Christian Friedrich Hunold has translated Baltasar Gracián as well as French and Italian authors
- Hugo Huppert translated Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Waltraud Hüsmert , translator from Dutch and English
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- Ioannis Ikonomou , translator and polyglot
- Ursula Isbel , translator from English and Swedish
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- Karl-Heinz Jähn , translator from Czech, Slovak and Russian
- Vicente Jarque
- Manuel Jiménez Redondo , has translated Habermas into Spanish , among others
- Elfriede Jelinek Translations from English, a. a. (together with Thomas Pilz) Thomas Pynchons The ends of the parable
- Walter Jens
- Gustav Just , translator from Czech and Slovak
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- Reinhard Kaiser (D)
- Joachim Kalka , translator from English and French
- Martin Kämchen , translator from Bengali, z. B. Rabindranath Tagore
- Senta Kapoun , translator from Swedish (Astrid Lindgren), Norwegian and Danish
- Paul Kárpáti
- Wolfgang Kaußen , (1953; D)
- Friedhelm Kemp
- Karin Kersten , translator from English and French
- Birgitta Kicherer , translator of books for children and young people from Swedish, English, Danish and Norwegian
- Toni Kienlechner , translator from Italian
- Barbara Kleiner , translator from Italian, French and English
- Paul Alfred Kleinert
- Patricia Klobusiczky , from English and French
- Andreas Klotsch , translator from Portuguese, Spanish and French
- Andrea Kluitmann , translator from Dutch
- Matthias Knoll , translator from Latvian
- Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (D), translated several books from Latin
- Richard Kölbl , translator from Icelandic
- Helmut Komp , translator from Lithuanian
- Johann Ulrich König (D), translated Italian opera libretti into German
- Werner von Koppenfels , translator from English, French, Spanish and Latin
- Christoph Kormart translated works from French and Dutch
- Christiane Körner translates from Russian
- Christine Koschel , translator from English and Italian
- Dezsö Kosztolányi (H)
- Wolfgang Krege
- Gert Kreutzer , translator from Icelandic
- Karin Krieger , translator from Italian and French
- Elina Kritzokat , translator from Finnish
- Burkhart Kroeber translator from Italian; known mainly through translations by Umberto Eco
- Lore Krüger translator from English, translated works by Doris Lessing, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Conrad and Henry James into German
- Christiane Kuby , translator from Dutch
- Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein (D) translated Spanish novels
- Franz Kuhn (D), translator from Chinese into German during the first half of the 20th century
- Peter Kultzen , translator from Spanish
- Reiner Kunze
- Heinz Rudolf Kunze (D), translation of musicals
- Angelika Kutsch (D), translator of children's and youth literature from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish
- Asteris Kutulas , translator of prose, poetry and essays from modern Greek into German
- Ina Kutulas (D), post-poet of poetry from modern Greek (including Nikos Engonopoulos , Dionisis Karatzas )
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- Klaus Laabs , translations from Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, English and Russian, etc. a. Translator by Reinaldo Arenas , José Lezama Lima and Alejandra Pizarnik
- Edwin Maria Landau , translations from French, a. a. Paul Claudel
- Susanne Lange , translations from Spanish and English
- Margitt Lehbert , translations from English, a. a. Les Murray and Iain Crichton Smith , has also published their translations since 1994 (see Edition Rugerup )
- Dieter Leisegang , translations by WH Auden , Hart Crane and Edvard Kocbek
- Hans-Georg Lenzen translated " Little Nick ".
- Gabriele Leupold , translations from Russian and Polish
- Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke , translations from the Swedish Gunnar Ekelöf
- Sylvia List , translator from English, Russian and French
- Enno Littmann , complete translation of A Thousand and One Nights from Arabic
- Daniel Casper von Lohenstein transferred Baltasar Gracián .
- Victoria Lorini , complete translation of Giorgio Vasari's Vite
- Conny Lösch , translator from English
- Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter , American translator from German, especially of Thomas Mann's works
- Ludwig I (Anhalt-Köthen) translated several books from French and Italian into German, including a work by Francesco Petrarca
- Helmut Lugmayr , translator from Icelandic
- Martin Luther , most important translation of the Bible into German
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- Hans Maeter (1923–2012), translator from English
- Erwin Magnus (1881–1947), translator from English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, translator of the works of Jack London
- Johann Christoph Männling translated Dutch travelogues.
- Olivier Mannoni (* 1960), translator from German into French
- Gisa Marehn , translator from Icelandic
- Elisabeth Markstein (1929–2013), translations of literary works from Russian and Polish, including Solzhenitsyn's Der Archipel Gulag
- Paul Jacob Marperger translated several works from French
- Roswitha Matwin-Buschmann , translator from Polish and Russian
- Joachim Meichel translated Jeremias Drexel and other religious authors from Latin
- Lavinia Mazzucchetti (1889–1965), translator from German into Italian, works by Thomas Mann
- Herbert Meier (1928–2018), translator from French
- Dorothee Merkel , translated from English
- Gustav Meyrink , works by Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling
- Curt Meyer-Clason , works by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American authors
- Maralde Meyer-Minnemann , translator from Portuguese and Spanish
- Fritz Mierau (1934–2018), translator from Russian
- Manfred Miethe (* 1950), translator from English, a. a. Works by Dan Millman , Michael Murphy , Jiddu Krishnamurti , Charles M. Schulz
- Nili Mirsky (1943–2018), translator mainly from German and Russian
- Terézia Mora , translator from Hungarian, a. a. Works by Péter Esterházy
- Johann Michael Moscherosch translated French and Latin books
- Natia Mikeladze-Bachsoliani , translator from Georgian
- Eva Moldenhauer , translator from French
- Kai Molvig , translator from English and Dutch
- Gustav Morgenstern , translator from Norwegian, Swedish and Danish
- Lena Müller , translated from the French
- Marlene Müller-Haas , translator from Dutch
- Haruki Murakami , American to Japanese translator
- Theresia Mutzenbecher
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- Salah Naoura mainly translates Swedish and English-language children's and youth literature
- Benjamin Neukirch translated Fania Fénélon
- Georg Neumark translated some of Jacob Cats' works into German
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- Günter Ohnemus , translated from English
- Adam Olearius , translated from Latin and Persian
- Martin Opitz , French and Latin books translated into German, e.g. In part with consultation of Dutch broadcasts
- Renate Orth-Guttmann , translator from English
- Grete Osterwald, `translator from English and French
- Else Otten , translator from Dutch
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- Hans-Henning Paetzke , German translations of contemporary Hungarian literature, a. a. by Péter Esterházy , György Konrád , László Márton and Péter Nádas
- Gisela Perlet , translator from Danish
- Werner Peterich , translator from English, French and Italian
- Helga Pfetsch translated Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple
- Maja Pflug , translator from Italian
- Astrid Philippsen , translator from Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovenian
- Burton Pike , translator from German, especially from Robert Musil
- Johannes Piron , translator from Dutch, English, French and Italian
- Regine Pirschel , German translations by Finnish contemporary authors
- Dagmar Ploetz , translator from Spanish
- Angela Plöger , translator from Finnish, Hungarian and Russian
- Pociao , translator from English
- Christian Heinrich Postel translated French and Italian opera libretti into German and wrote a partial translation of Homer
- Angela Praesent translated from English and French.
- Mirjam Pressler , works from Hebrew, English, Dutch and Afrikaans
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- Hermann Quistorf , High and Low German translations of dramas by Dutch authors, including the works of Jan Fabricius
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- Susanna Rademacher , translator from English
- EK Rahsin , German translations by Dostoevsky
- Ilma Rakusa translates from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian and French
- Norbert Randow , translations from Bulgarian and Belarusian
- Wolfgang Ratke translated Plautus , Terenz and Justinian
- Kathrin Razum translates from English
- Eva Rechel-Mertens translated from French, she is best known as a Proust translator and as a translator of an essential part of the complete works of Simone de Beauvoir, Julien Green and Roger Martin du Gard
- Verena Reichel , translations from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish
- Hans Reisiger , translations from English and French
- Thomas Reschke , translations from Russian, a. a. Mikhail Bulgakov , Boris Pasternak
- Fanny zu Reventlow , translations from French (Prévost, Proust, Maupassant and others)
- Fuad Rifka translated German poetry into Arabic.
- Johann Rist translated a work by Torquato Tasso into German .
- Bernhard Robben , translator from English
- Joachim Röhm , translator from Albanian (mainly works by Ismail Kadare )
- Erika Rojas , translator from the Latin of Giordano Bruno's works
- Georg Rollenhagen transferred Aelius Donatus .
- Franz Rosenzweig , philosopher, transmitted poems by Jehuda ha-Levi and, together with Martin Buber, the Tanach
- Johann Leonhard Rost translated French and Spanish novels into German
- Hans Rothe , translator from English and French, including all of William Shakespeare's works
- Harry Rowohlt , translator from English and reciter of his translations
- Utta Roy-Seifert , translator from English and founder of the Austrian IG Translators, then the "translator community"
- Frida Rubiner
- Friedrich Rückert , translated the Koran and a large number of classical oriental writings
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- Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer translated Mascaron
- Julius Sandmeier , translator from Norwegian, Danish and Swedish
- Heinz von Sauter , translations from French and English, main work: first complete German translation of Casanova's memoirs
- Wolfgang Schadewaldt
- Stefanie Schäfer , translator from Dutch, Afrikaans, English and French
- Angela Schamberger , translator from Icelandic
- Denis Scheck , translator from English, editor and literary critic
- Gerda Scheffel , translations from French
- Helmut Scheffel , translations from French
- Jörg Scherzer , translator from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
- Eduard Schiemann , translator of contemporary Russian literature
- Annemarie Schimmel , translations from Persian, Arabic and Urdu, especially of classical poetry
- David Schirmer translated works from Latin
- Michael Schirmer transferred Virgil
- August Wilhelm Schlegel , works by Dante Alighieri , Calderón and William Shakespeare
- Herbert Schlueter , translator from Italian, English, French and Spanish
- Carlo Schmid
- Renate Schmidgall , translations from Polish
- Arno Schmidt translated English-speaking authors such as James Fenimore Cooper , Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner into German
- Rainer G. Schmidt , translator from English and French
- Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel , translator from French, Norwegian and Italian
- Werner Schmitz , translated from English
- Elisabeth Schnack
- Marianne Schneider , translations from Italian and French
- Johann Georg Schoch translated Ovid
- Gabriele Schrey-Vasara , translations from Finnish
- Christa Schuenke , translator from English
- Michael Schulte
- Peter Schwaar , translator from Spanish
- Marcel Schwander translated from French, a. a. Jacques Chessex , Georges Haldas and Alice Rivaz
- Benjamin Schwarz , German translation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Ernst Schwarz , translations of classical poems and philosophical texts from Chinese
- Rainer Schwarz , translations from Chinese ( The Dream of the Red Chamber ) and Russian
- Karin von Schweder-Schreiner , translator from Portuguese, English, French and Swedish
- Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner , translator from English and Portuguese
- Hubert Seelow , translator from Icelandic
- Gregor Seferens , translator from Dutch
- Thomas Shelton , first translated Don Quixote from Spanish into English in 1612
- Stefan Siebers , translations from Hebrew
- Hans Skirecki , translations from Hungarian
- Ulrich Sonnenberg , translator from Danish and Norwegian
- Wolfhart Spangenberg translated several Latin works into German
- Andrea Spingler translates from French, a. a. Works by Marguerite Duras , Alain Robbe-Grillet , Patrick Modiano and Pascale Kramer
- Helmut von den Steinen translated Konstantin Kavafis , Nikos Kazantzakis , Stratis Myrivilis from Modern Greek and Hesiod as well as a number of dialogues by Plato
- Claudia Steinitz , translator from French
- Jeanne Stern translated a. a. Anna Seghers into French
- In particular, Hans Stilett translated Montaigne from French
- Rosemarie Still , translations from Dutch
- Nikolaus Stingl , translator from English
- Ilse Strasmann , translates from English and French, among many other works also Tintin and Struppi volumes by Hergé
- Egon Strohm , translator from English
- Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg translated French and Italian novels
- Uta Szyszkowitz , translator from English and French, v. a. for the stage
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- Borys Ten , translator from ancient Greek, English, German, Russian
- Elena Teuffer , translator from Icelandic
- Monika The , translator from Dutch
- Eckhard Thiele , translator from Russian, Polish, Czech and Slovak
- Ludwig Tieck , works by William Shakespeare
- Rosemarie Tietze , translations from Russian
- Maria-Claudia Tomany , translator from Icelandic
- Elmar Tophoven , u. a. Samuel Beckett
- Friedrich Torberg
- Peter Torberg
- Andreas Tretner , translations from Russian, Bulgarian and Czech
- Dorothea Trottenberg , translations from Russian
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- Peter Uhlmann , translator from Finnish
- Helen Uhlschmid , translator from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
- Lesja Ukrainka
- Peter Urban , translator from Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Czech
- Peter Urban-Halle , translator from Danish and French
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- Sigrid Vagt , translator from French and Italian
- Conrad Vetter , translator for Jakob Gretser
- Holger Vock , translator from French
- Christa Vogel , translations from Polish and Russian
- Fritz Vogelgsang , translator from Spanish and Catalan, a. a. by Antonio Machado , Octavio Paz and Ramón del Valle-Inclán
- Johann Heinrich Voss , Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
- Günther Vulpius , works by Anne Golon and Roger Peyrefitte
- Christina Viragh , translator from Hungarian a. a. the works of Sándor Márai , Imre Kertész , Péter Nádas
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- Kurt Wagenseil , translator of Henry Miller's works
- Betty Wahl , translator from Icelandic, English, Norwegian and Danish
- Michael Walter , translator from English, a. a. by Edward Gibbon , Laurence Sterne, and Eugene O'Neill
- Melanie Walz , translations from English and French
- Peter Waterhouse , author and translator from English and Italian
- Anne Weber
- Elke Wehr , translator from Spanish
- Inge von Weidenbaum , translator from English and Italian
- Brigitte Weidmann , translated from French
- Carl Weissner , translations by Bukowski, Burroughs, Ginsbergh and Bob Dylan
- Diederich von dem Werder , transfers from Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso
- Simon Werle , translations from French and English
- Karl-Ludwig Wetzig , translator from Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Old Norse
- Walter Widmer
- Christoph Martin Wieland , translations of Shakespeare (from the French)
- Petra Willim , translator from French
- Josef Winiger translates from the French
- Rudolf Wittkopf translator from English, French and Spanish, a. a. by Julio Cortázar and Octavio Paz
- Klaus Wittmann , translator from Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian
- Mirjana Wittmann , translator from Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian
- Walburg Wohlleben , translator from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
- Karin Wolff , translator from Polish
- Karl Wolfskehl
- Hans Wollschläger , works by James Joyce and Edgar Allan Poe
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- Heidi Zerning , translator from English
- Philipp von Zesen translated works from French, Latin and Dutch.
- Dieter E. Zimmer , translator from English and Spanish, especially by Vladimir Nabokov
- Willi Zurbrüggen , translator from Spanish