Maria Csollány
Maria Csollány , née Raschke (born July 5, 1932 in Tilburg , Netherlands ; died April 24, 2018 in Edingen-Neckarhausen ), was a Dutch translator in Germany.
Life
Maria Csollány and her family had to flee from the Netherlands to Hungary in 1943 as a Jew and lived in Győr , Hungary from 1943 to 1956 . From 1953 she worked as a freelancer for a daily newspaper and published poems and stories as well as translations from German into Hungarian. After the Hungarian uprising , she fled the country and lived in Edingen-Neckarhausen, Germany, from 1956. From 1971 she worked as a translator, translating from English, Hungarian, Dutch and Afrikaans into German. She has translated works by J. Bernlef , Stephen Longstreet , Charlotte Mutsaers and poetry by Judith Herzberg , among others .
She was a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works .
Awards
- 1988: Johann Friedrich von Cotta Prize for Literature and Translation from the City of Stuttgart
- 1996: Culture Prize of the Flemish Community
- 2001: Prize of the City of Münster for European Poetry
Translations (selection)
Complete list at: Authors Baden-Württemberg
- Philippa Carr : The secret in the monastery. dotbooks, Munich 2017 ISBN 978-3-95824-996-7
- J. Bernlef: fantasies. Novel. Reclam, Stuttgart 2016 ISBN 978-3-15-020460-3
- Jona Oberski: Childhood. Diogenes, Zurich 2016 ISBN 978-3-257-06962-4
- Etty Hillesum : The thinking heart of the barrack. The diaries 1941 - 1943. Herder, Freiburg 2014 ISBN 978-3-451-33503-7
- Stefaan van den Bremt: Voice from the deep land. Verlag Im Wald, Rimbach 2011 ISBN 978-3-941042-27-8
- J. Bernlef: Until it's light again. Nagel & Kimche , Munich 2007 ISBN 978-3-312-00395-2
- Hugo Claus' poetry, in an unknown area. Modern Dutch poetry until 1980. Bilingual Dutch-German. Straelen Manuscripts, Straelen 1985
literature
- Obituary, Translate , 2, 2018, p. 16
Web links
- Maria Csollány on a website at the European College of Translators , Straelen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice , accessed on May 7, 2018
- ↑ online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Csollány, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raschke, Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilburg , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 2018 |
| Place of death | Edingen-Neckarhausen |