Michael Walter (translator)
Michael Walter (born January 4, 1951 in Wiesbaden ) is a German translator .
Life
After graduating from high school, Michael Walter studied philosophy and English at the Universities of Mannheim and Freiburg im Breisgau . He graduated with a master's degree and has been working as a freelance translator ever since. He is based in Munich and in 1988 held a lectureship on "literary translation" at the University of Munich . He mainly translates fiction from English .
In his laudation on the awarding of the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize, Hans Wollschläger said that in his translation of Tristram Shandy , Walter had given “the heavy German tongue that quick blow” which “made the maddening tender flutter of these very serious jokes audible” .
Michael Walter is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt , the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works (VdÜ).
Prizes and awards
- 1989 Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation
- 1999 Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize
- 2005 Johann Friedrich von Cotta translator award
- 2008 Helmut M. Braem Prize
- 2010 literature grant from the city of Munich
- 2018 European Translator Award Offenburg
Translations
- Jeffrey Archer : The Gospel according to Jude by Benjamin Iscariot , Frankfurt am Main 2007
- Alan Ball : Five in the same fumble , Frankfurt am Main 1993
- James Graham Ballard : The Eternal Day and Other Science Fiction Stories , Frankfurt am Main 1981
- James Graham Ballard: Free flights , Frankfurt am Main 1982
- James Graham Ballard: The Dead Astronaut , Frankfurt am Main 1983
- Julian Barnes : Flaubert's Parrot , Zurich 1987
- Julian Barnes: When she didn't know me , Zurich 1988
- Charlotte Brontë : Stories from Angria , Frankfurt am Main 1987 (translated together with Jörg Drews )
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton : The Coming Sex , Frankfurt am Main 1980
- Lewis Carroll : Sylvie & Bruno , Frankfurt am Main 1980 (translated together with Sabine Hübner)
- Irene Dische : The Second Life of Domenico Scarlatti , Berlin 1995
- John Fisher: Alice in the wonderland of riddles , Munich 1985
- Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Munich 2003
- David Hare : Skylight , Reinbek 1995
- Richard Hughes : In Bedrunge , translated from English (Original title In Hazard ), 3rd edition, Dörlemann 2012, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-908777-82-3 .
- Richard Hughes: Hurricane over Jamaica , new translation from English, Dörlemann, Zurich 2013 ISBN 978-3-908777-91-5
- John Irving : Let go of the bears! , Zurich 1985
- Bryan S. Johnson : Christie Malry's double entry bookkeeping , Munich 1989
- Bryan S. Johnson: Lebensabend , Munich 1992
- Rudyard Kipling : My dear children , Munich 1986 (translated together with Karin Graf )
- Andrew Knowles: Being Christian from head to toe , Giessen 1986
- Patrick Little : In the hawthorn tree , Modautal-Neunkirchen 1980
- Howard P. Lovecraft : In the crypt and other macabre stories , Frankfurt am Main 1982
- Howard P. Lovecraft: The cats of Ulthar and other stories , Frankfurt am Main 1980
- Howard P. Lovecraft: The dream search for the unknown Kadath , Frankfurt am Main 1992
- Scott McPherson: Marvins Zimmer , Frankfurt am Main 1995
- Ian McEwan : The Consolation of Strangers , Zurich 1983
- Herman Melville : Billy Budd , Munich 2009 (translated together with Daniel Göske)
- Eugene O'Neill : All the riches of the world , Frankfurt am Main 1995
- Eugene O'Neill: Almost a Poet , Frankfurt am Main 1988
- Eugene O'Neill: The Great God Brown , Frankfurt am Main 1992
- Eugene O'Neill: Kaiser Jones , Frankfurt am Main 1990
- Eugene O'Neill: One long day's journey into the night , Frankfurt am Main 2002
- Eugene O'Neill: Strange Intermezzo , Frankfurt am Main 1993
- Eugene O'Neill: Electra must bear grief , Frankfurt am Main 1990
- George Orwell : Animal Farm , Zurich 1982
- George Orwell: 1984 , Berlin 1984
- Adam Phillips: Monogamy , Frankfurt am Main 1997
- Neil Simon : A gag for Max , Frankfurt am Main 1994
- Arthur RG Solmssen : Berliner Reigen , Frankfurt am Main 1981
- Laurence Sterne : A Sensitive Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick . Berlin 2010
- Laurence Sterne: Life and Views of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman . Zurich 1983–1991
- Robert Louis Stevenson : Kidnapped or The memories of David Balfour on his adventures in 1751 , Frankfurt am Main 1979
- Virginia Woolf : Night and Day , Frankfurt am Main 1983 (translated with Walter Hartmann)
- Characters in Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose" . Collection of articles. Hanser, Munich 1987; again dtv, 1989 (translation of the English texts). Ed. Burkhart Kroeber (this also translates the Italian texts) Table of contents
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
- 2005 - Cotta translator award winner Michael Walter
- "I swore to myself: No more Henry James, even if they put a sack of gold in front of my door!" Michael Walter in an interview with Sylvia Prahl, taz , May 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Life and views of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , deutschlandfunk.de of December 27, 2015
- ↑ Michael Walter receives the European Translator Award , welt.de, November 8, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walter, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |