Michael Mundhenk

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Michael Mundhenk (* 1954 in Berlin ) is a German translator .

Life

Michael Mundhenk studied architecture, Romance languages ​​and English; with a DAAD scholarship, he continued his English studies in Vancouver , which he completed with a master's degree. He then worked for almost twenty years as a lecturer in English and American language and literature at colleges in British Columbia . Now he lives in Freiburg im Breisgau . He translated u. a. Works by Margaret Atwood , Allen Ginsberg , Barry Lopez , Gertrude Stein , Rebecca Solnit and Agatha Christie .

He is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Honors

Translations - books (selection)

  • Wayson Choy : The jade peony. Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-550-08237-1
  • Robert Creeley : Poems. American - German. Literarisches Colloquium Berlin , 1984 ISBN 3-920392-89-2
  • Rachel Cohen : Interwoven Paths of Life. American writers and artists, 1854-1967 , Piet Meyer, Bern / Vienna, 2019
  • Agatha Christie : Alibi. Atlantic, Hamburg 2014
  • Agatha Christie: The Great Hercule Poirot Book. The best crime stories. Atlantik, Hamburg 2015 ISBN 978-3-455-60032-2
  • Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot's Christmas. Atlantic, Hamburg 2015
  • Agatha Christie: With cards open. Atlantic, Hamburg 2016
  • Agatha Christie: Murder in Mesopotamia. Atlantic, Hamburg 2018
  • Karel Dohnal: Yukon solo. In a canoe through Alaska. Müller, Vienna; Rüschlikon, Zurich 1987 ISBN 3-275-00918-4
  • Nathan Englander : The Department for Special Cases. Luchterhand, Munich 2008
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti : Rough Notes from the Northwest. Ecological bearings and bucolic ecologists. Places, Zurich 1988
  • Allen Ginsberg : Chants of the Heart. Loose Blätter Presse, Hamburg 1981 (co-translator)
  • Allen Ginsberg: Howl / Howl. [The Annotated Howl] Kellner, Hamburg 1998; Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg 2005 (co-translator)
  • Hilary Hemingway, Jeffry P. Lindsay: Fishing and Hunting with Hemingway. Claassen, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-546-00332-2
  • Christine Hurley Deriso: Nothing is as perfect as life. Oetinger, Hamburg 2012
  • Aldous Huxley , Christopher Isherwood : Jacob the Healer: an original screenplay. Ullstein, Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-550-08268-1
  • Jasper Johns : "Aim for maximum difficulty in determining what happened." Interviews, statements, sketchbook notes. Edited by Gregor Stemmrich. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1997
  • Jack Kerouac : My brother, the sea. Edel, Hamburg 2011 (epilogue of the translation)
  • Joy Kogawa : Obasan. Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1993 ISBN 3-379-01477-X (afterword of the translation)
  • Barry Lopez , Tom Pohrt (Ill.): Crow and Weasel. Verlag an der Este, Buxtehude 1993 ISBN 3-926616-63-6
  • Harry Mathews : My life as the CIA. A chronicle of 1973. Urs Engeler, Basel 2006
  • Larry McMurtry : Crazy Horse. Claassen, Berlin 2005
  • Charles Olson : The Post Office. A memory. Maro, Augsburg 1997
  • David Adams Richards: Burning Ice. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006
  • Kerri Sakamoto: The echo of a long day. Novel. Claassen, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-546-00162-1
  • Rebecca Solnit : Hope in the Dark. Infinite stories, wild possibilities. Pendo, Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-86612-059-1
  • Rebecca Solnit: The Art of Getting Lost . A guide through the maze of life. Piper, Munich 2009
  • Gertrude Stein , Franz Erhard Walther (Ill.): The world is round. With fragments from work drawings by FE Walther. Ritter, Klagenfurt 1994 ISBN 3-85415-117-9
  • Gertrude Stein: money. Money - More about money. Delivered with magic squares by Friedrich Meckseper. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2004; Audiobook Hamburg, 2004; Money. Edition Plasma, Fürstenwalde 1995
  • Brad Tolinski: Light & Shadow. Conversations with Jimmy Page . Edel, Hamburg 2013
  • Erika de Vasconcelos: My beloved dead. Claassen, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-546-00160-5
  • Jeff Wall : Scenarios in the pictorial space of reality. Essays and interviews. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1997 (co-translator)
  • Michael C. White: My brother's blood. Ullstein, Berlin 1998
  • Andrew Wilson: Agatha's alibi. Pendo, Munich 2017

Translations - magazines (selection)

Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, John Hawkes, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Michael Ondaatje, Steve Reich, Derek Walcott, Kenneth White and others. a. m. in Akzente , Du , Litfass , Log , Merian , Orte , Penthouse and language in the technical age .

Margaret Atwood , Paul-Émile Borduas , Northrop Frye , Margaret Laurence , Michel Tremblay and others a .: in die horen , 1986 (Canada issue), as editor and translator.

Translations - other (selection)

Mathew Barney, Michael Haas, Michael Hardt, Tom Holloway, Francesco Izzo, Timothy Jackson, Derek Katz, Rebecca Solnit and many others in program books and booklets of the Bavarian State Opera Munich (since 2012).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography of Michael Mundhenk. Random House, October 29, 2017, accessed October 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mundhenk, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin