Michael Kegler

Michael Kegler (* 1967 in Gießen ) is a German literary translator from Portuguese , editor and literary critic .

Life

Kegler lived from the age of four to ten on an iron ore mine in Minas Gerais , the largest mining center in Brazil , where his father worked as a geologist . Together with the children of the miners in Congonhas do Campo he attended a tiny school. Kegler did his community service in a psychiatric clinic. He studied Romance studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked alongside his studies in Teo Ferrer de Mesquita's Portuguese bookstore “Centro do Livro” at the Konstablerwache (now in Bockenheim). He attended translation seminars with the philologist Ray-Güde Mertin , the great role model of all German and Portuguese translators who died in 2007.

Kegler has been translating from Portuguese since 1992. Since 2001 he has been running the Nova Cultura review website for literature and music from the Portuguese-speaking countries Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe and Timor Lorosae, which is a continuation of the 1982 to 2000 publishing house Teo Ferrer de Mesquita (TFM) published “boletim” Nova Cultura understands. He is a member of the board of the Society for the Promotion of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America .

In 2014, Kegler and Marianne Gareis received the Straelen Translator Award from the Kunststiftung NRW for their translations from Brazilian Portuguese .

In 2016 he was awarded the International Hermann Hesse Prize together with the Brazilian writer Luiz Ruffato , whose work he translates . He lives in Diedenbergen near Hofheim am Taunus .

Publications

Translations

José Eduardo Agualusa

The gecko's laugh. (Original title: O vendedor de passados. ) A1 Verlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-940666-04-8 .
My father's wives. (Original title: As mulheres do meu pai. ). A1 Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-940666-10-9 .
Barroco tropical. (Original title: Barroco tropical. ). A1 Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-940666-19-2 . Shortlist International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures , 2011.
A general theory of forgetting (original title: Teoria geral do esquecimento ). CH Beck , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71340-8 .
The society of involuntary dreamers (Original title: A sociedade dos sonhadores involuntários ). CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73374-1

Paulina Chiziane

Love song to the wind (original title: Balada de Amor ao Vento ) Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2001 (together with Claudia Stein)
The seventh vow (original title: O Sétimo Juramento ) Brandes & Apsel Verlag 2003

João Paulo Cuenca

The only happy ending to a love story is an accident. (Original title: O único final feliz para uma estória de amor é um acidente. ). A1 Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-940666-31-4 .
Mastroianni. A day. (Original title: O dia mastroianni. ) A1 Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-940666-43-7 .

Fernando Molica

War in Mirandão (Original title: Notícias do Mirandão ) Edition Nautilus 2006
Black my love (Original title: Bandeira negra, amor ) Edition diá , Berlin 2014, ISBN epub: 9-783-86034-539-9, book edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-86034-409-5 .

Luiz Ruffato

There were many horses. (Original title: Eles eram muitos cavalos. ). Association A, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86241-420-8 .
Mom i'm fine (Original title: Mama, son tanto felice. ) Association A , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86241-421-5 .
Hostile world. (Original title: O mundo inimigo. ) Association A , Berlin / Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86241-430-7 .
I was in Lisbon thinking of you. (Original title: Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você ) Association A , Hamburg and Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86241-444-4
Partial view of the night (original title: Vista Parcial da Noite ). Association A , Berlin / Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86241-434-5 .
The book of impossibilities (original title: O livro das impossibilidades ). Association A, Berlin / Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86241-469-7

Gonçalo M. Tavares

Water, dog, horse, head. Short stories. (Original title: Água, cão, cavalo, cabeça ) Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85450-277-7 .
Mr. Brecht and the success (original title: O Senhor Brecht eo sucesso). Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2020, ISBN 9783902951502
Mr. Valéry and the logic (original title: O Senhor Valéry ea lógica ). Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2020, ISBN 9783902951489
Mr. Henri and the encyclopedia (original title: O Senhor Henri ea enciclopédia ). Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2020, ISBN 9783902951496

Manuel Tiago (ie: Álvaro Cunhal )

Five days, five nights. (Original title: Cinco Dias, cinco Noites. ) TFM, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-925203-53-2 .
The house of Eulália (Original title: A Casa de Eulália ) Neue Impulse Verlag 2002

Further

M. Margarida Pereira-Müller (Ed.): O Macaquinho do Narizito Branco / The little monkey with the white nose. Animal stories from Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe and East Timor . Bilingual: Portuguese / German. TFM , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-925203-36-2 .
Felipe Tadeu: insects. Poems. (Original title: Certos Insetos. ) Fischer, Aachen 1994, ISBN 3-89514-023-6 .
Pedro Rosa Mendes : Black Light - Passages through West Africa . Brandes & Apsel Verlag 2006 (together with Barbara Mesquita)
Manuela Costa Ribeiro: Cego do Maio. The guardian angel of sailors. (Original title: Cego do Maio. ) TFM, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-939455-01-6 .
Klester Cavalcanti: The Pistoleiro. (Original title: O nome da morte. ). Transit Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-88747-284-9 (together with Wanda Jakob)
Michel Laub : Diary of a fall. (Original title: Diário da queda. ). Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-93972-9 .
Moacyr Scliar : Kafka's leopards. (Original title: Os leopardos de Kafka. ). Lilienfeld Verlag , Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-940357-31-1 .
Eliane Brum : Raimundo and the ball. Story. (Raimundo, Dono da Bola) In the anthology The Black Son of God. 16 football stories from Brazil. Ed. Luiz Ruffato. Association A , 2013, CulturBooks , Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-944818-53-5
Ondjaki : The transparent ones. (Original title: Os transparentes ) Verlag Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-88423-494-5
Companhia do Feijão : He who has eyes sees . (Original title: Mire, veja ); Play based on Luiz Ruffato : There were many horses , Zuckerhut Theaterverlag , Munich 2015
André Sant'Anna : Amor / Liebe (Original title: Amor ) Edition Tempo, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050479-2
Rui Zink : The installation of fear (original title: A instalação do medo ) Weidle Verlag , Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-938803-80-6 , ebook edition: CulturBooks, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95988-039- 8th
Patrícia Portela : Shields . Street play. Performed on September 1, 2018 by the Alarm-Theater Bielefeld.
Manuel Jorge Marmelo : A lie repeated a thousand times. (Original title: Uma mentira mil vezes repetida ) A1 Verlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-940666-63-5

editor

Michael Kegler (Ed.): Hotel ver mar. Poems from Angola, Brazil, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé e Príncipe. TFM, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-939455-02-8 .

Bibliographies

Books on Brazil . Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-923352-87-6 .
Literature from Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Translated titles available. An annotated bibliography. 3. Edition. TFM, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3-925203-96-1 (edited with Petra Noack).
Literature from Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Translated titles available. 2nd Edition. TFM, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-925203-85-5 .
Literature from Portugal. Translated titles available. TFM, Frankfurt am Main 1997