Michaela Prinzinger

Michaela Prinzinger (born March 6, 1963 in Vienna ) is a neo-Greekist , freelance writer , interpreter and translator .

Life

After studying Byzantine Studies , Neo -Greek Studies and Turkology / Islamic Studies at the University of Vienna and a doctorate in Neo -Greek Studies at the Free University of Berlin , Prinzinger was initially a research assistant at the Byzantine-Modern Greek Seminar there, later a university lecturer in Vienna, and a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and habilitation scholarship from the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research in Vienna. Since 1995 she has been working as a freelance writer, interpreter and translator in Berlin.

For her numerous literary translations from Greek, she was funded by the translators' workshop of the Berlin Literary Colloquium , the German Translation Fund and the literature department of the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

In August 2014 Michaela Prinzinger presented her German-Greek internet portal diablog.eu to promote the Greek language, culture and German-Greek understanding. This initiative was nominated for the Berlin Blue Bear European Prize in 2015 .

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

At the Leipzig Book Fair 2019, work journals by Camille Luscher and Michaela Prinzinger were exhibited as part of the TOLEDO funding program.

Awards

• Joachim Tiburtius Acknowledgment Prize (Berlin 1995)
• Literature Prize at the Neukölln Culture Prize (Berlin 1995)
• Greek-German translator award (Munich 2003, awarded by the Goethe Institute and the National Book Center Athens EKEBI)
• Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation 2015 (Klagenfurt 2016)

Translations (selection)

Petros Markaris

• Hellas Channel. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2000, ISBN 978-3-257-23282-0 .
• Moth. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2001, ISBN 978-3-257-23353-7 .
• Live! A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2004, ISBN 978-3-257-23474-9 .
• Balkan Blues , Stories, Diogenes 2005, ISBN 978-3-257-23625-5 .
• The major shareholder. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2006, ISBN 978-3-257-23787-0 .
• Repeat offenders, A life between Istanbul, Athens and Vienna , Diogenes 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-06639-5 .
• The nanny. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-24041-2 .
• Across Athens. A journey from Piraeus to Kifisia , Hanser 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-24248-5 .
• Bad loans. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-24206-5 .
• Payday. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-24268-3 .
• Billing. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-24303-1 .
• Back to start. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06925-9 .
• The Death of Odysseus , Tales, Diogenes 2016, ISBN 978-3-257-06979-2 .
• Offshore. A case for Kostas Charitos , Roman, Diogenes 2017, ISBN 978-3-257-07003-3 .

Ioanna Karystiani

• Shadow wedding , Roman, Suhrkamp 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-41472-9 .
• The eyes of the sea , Roman, Suhrkamp 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35729-2 .

Rhea Galanaki

• The life of Ismail Ferik Pascha , Roman, Suhrkamp 2001, ISBN 978-3-518-41289-3 .

Andreas Staikos

• Culinary love affairs , Roman, Eichborn 2001, ISBN 978-3-821-80837-6 .

Mara Meimaridi

• The Witches of Smyrna , novel, island 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-35927-2 .

Emilios Solomou

• In the constellation of the Cyclades, novel, published by the Greek newspaper, Athens 2015, ISBN 978-3-99021-010-9 .

Kaiti Manolopoulou

• June without harvest (Distomo, 1944) , publishing house of the Greek newspaper Athens 2016, ISBN 978-3-99021-014-7 .

Marios Michaelides

• East of Antalya, north of Nicosia . Novel. Verlag auf dem Ruffel, Engelschoff 2016 ISBN 978-3-933847-58-4 .

Nikos Kazantzakis

• The palace of Knossos . Youth novel, Publishing House of the Greek Newspaper, Athens 2016 ISBN 978-3-99021-018-5 .

Heinz Salvator Kounio

• (together with Athanassios Tsingas) One liter of soup and 60 grams of bread. The prisoner's diary 109565 , Hentrich & Hentrich 2016 ISBN 978-3-95565-162-6 .

Fonts

• Myths, Metaphors and Metamorphoses. Feminine parody in contemporary Greek literature . Metzler, Stuttgart 1997 (results of women's research, vol. 45) (also: Diss. FU Berlin 1995) ISBN 3-476-01528-9
• Crete. A travel companion. Insel 2006, ISBN 978-3-458-34903-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michaela Prinzinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• German-Greek homepage of the author and translator
• Bilingual cultural website diablog.eu
• Philip Volkmann-Schluck: How a Berliner brings Germans and Greeks together. Berliner Morgenpost, March 23, 2015, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
• Luciana Ferrando: It says “love” in red letters. taz, December 12, 2015, accessed July 10, 2017 . 
• Christian Gonsa: honored mediator of Greek literature. Die Presse, June 27, 2016, accessed July 10, 2017 . 
• Radio portrait of Thomas Fitzel on rbb Kulturradio, 2016, sound recording
• Korbinian Frenzel: Athens gets a monumental cultural center. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, February 23, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017 . 
• Interview with Greece Aktuell. June 15, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2017 . 
• Prinzinger in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2020
• Notes from the intermediate realm. Literary politics of memory. Journal for the translation of the novel "Athos der Forster" by Maria Stefanopoulou , by Michaela Prinzinger, TOLEDO-Journal, nd, accessed on July 23, 2017. With references to the German reign of terror in Greece. Numerous web links on the topic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Niewendick: A blog for German-Greek friendship . Tagesspiegel, January 28, 2015, accessed April 10, 2015 . 
2. ↑ TOLEDO - Events - TOLEDO on tour - TOLEDO at the Leipzig Book Fair. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .  See links below for the full text