Martin Winter (Sinologist)

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Martin Winter ( Chinese  維馬丁 ; Pinyin : Wei Mading; * 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian translator , sinologist and poet . He translated the biography of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and received the translation award from the Federal Chancellery in 2016 for crossing the Yellow River .

Life

After studying German and Sinology, Winter lived in China and Taiwan for 15 years . From 1988 to 1990 he was on a scholarship in Taiwan. He has been working as a translator since an internship in Shanghai (1992/1993). In 1994 he gave German lessons for refugees in civil service . He taught German and English and worked as a lecturer for German language and Austrian literature at several universities ( Wuhan , Chongqing , Beijing , Taiwan and Romania). From 1999 to 2009, Winter worked as a translator in Beijing. He took part in the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam.

Winter now lives with his family in Vienna. He publishes articles on contemporary Chinese literature and translates works from Chinese. He is the editor of the magazine LEUCHTSPUR: New Chinese Literature and writes poetry in German, English and Chinese.

Winter's articles and poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books and in Chinese, German and Swiss daily and weekly newspapers.

Works (selection)

  • The moon must be perfect = She has to be perfect = 不敢 不 完美. fabrik.transit, Vienna 2016
  • Posts in: die hear. Volume 261: Up into Blau's Tiny Tent - Writers in Prison / Writers at Risk . ISBN 978-3-8353-1832-8 .

Fonts

  • German modal verbs in comparison with Chinese modal verbs and in university foreign language teaching in China . 1995.
  • China and Literature 2000 to 2010. In: Culture Scapes China. Basel 2010. pp. 128–138.

Translations (selection)

  • Beiling Huang: Sacrificed to Freedom: The Biography of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo . Riva, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-86883-134-4
  • Hong Ying: The Chinese Beloved. Berlin 2004. Vienna 2005.
  • Liu Zhenyun : 1942. Documentation and other short stories. Erhard Löcker, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-85409-708-2
  • Yi Sha: crossing the yellow river. Volume 1, 1988 to 2009. fabrik.transit, Vienna 2016.
  • Yi Sha: crossing the yellow river. Volume 2, 2010 to 2017. fabrik.transit, Vienna 2017.
  • (Translator and ed.): Board full of nails布满 钉子 的 木板New poetry from China. Volume 1. A-J . fabrik.transit, Vienna 2018.

Web links

Commons : Martin Winter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Winter . (accessed on October 26, 2018)
  2. ↑ Martin Winter (维馬丁). (accessed on October 26, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 維馬丁 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian translator, sinologist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria