Nikolaus Stingl

Nikolaus Stingl (born December 3, 1952 in Baden-Baden ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Nikolaus Stingl studied English and German at the University of Heidelberg from 1973 to 1978 , from which he graduated in 1978 with a master's degree. He has been working as a literary translator since the early 1980s. Stingl lives in Flensburg .

Nikolaus Stingl translates narrative literature from English into German , including works by Cormac McCarthy , Andrew Miller , Thomas Pynchon and Neal Stephenson . Stingl was awarded the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize in 1995, the Stuttgart City Literature Prize in 2000 and the Paul Celan Prize in 2007 . In 2013, Stingl received the translation award from the Kunststiftung NRW .

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

Editing

• The real Robinson, or Providence. Life and Adventure of Alexander Selkirk , compiled and edited by Nikolaus Stingl. Robinson, Frankfurt am Main 1980 (= library of adventure ) ISBN 3-88592-002-6

Translations

• Joan Aiken : The girl from Paris. Zurich 1985
• Joan Aiken: Dead people don't talk about the weather. Zurich 1986
• Eric Ambler : Schirmer's inheritance . Zurich 2001
• Eric Ambler: Topkapi . Zurich 1996 (translated together with Elsbeth Herlin)
• Donald Antrim : Mother. Reinbek near Hamburg 2006
• Charlotte Armstrong : Sleep my baby. Zurich 1988
• Paul Auster : 4 3 2 1 . Reinbek near Hamburg 2017
• Earl A. Beesley : The great English country estates. Munich 1989
• Arnold Bennett : How do you live 24 hours a day. Siegen 1988 (translated with Edgar Weber)
• Peter Cameron : Back then is a distant country. Berlin 1998
• Peter Carey : Dream flight. Tübingen 1982
• Emma Cline : The Girls . Munich 2016
• Guy Cullingford : Women together are strong. Zurich 1992
• Cecil Day Lewis : end of chapter. Zurich 1998
• Daniel Defoe : Comprehensive History of the Robberies and Murders of the Notorious Pirates. Frankfurt am Main 1982
• Arthur Conan Doyle : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Zurich 1985
• Family planning work in the IPFF Europe region. Frankfurt am Main 1979 (translated together with Dorle Tiedt)
• James T. Farrell : Studs Lonigan. Tübingen
  • 1. A youth on the streets of Chicago. 1982
  • 2. Broken dreams. 1983
• William Faulkner : Absalom, Absalom! . 2015
• Dick Francis : Gallop. Zurich 1991 (translated together with Ursula Goldschmidt)
• Dick Francis: Helpless. Zurich 1994
• Dick Francis: Whip. Zurich 1995
• Tom Franklin: Crooked guy, crooked guy. Berlin 2018
• Jacques Futrelle : The Superfluous Finger and Other Great Cases of the Thinking Machine. Wins 1987
• William Gaddis : Last instance. Reinbek near Hamburg 1996
• William H. Gass : The tunnel. Reinbek near Hamburg 2011
• CW Grafton : The water doesn't put out the fire. Cologne 1990.
• Graham Greene : The Third Man , novel with an afterword by Hanns Zischler . Vienna 2016.
• Patricia Highsmith : Deep Waters. Zurich 2003
• John Irving : Until I find you. Zurich 2006 (translated together with Dirk van Gunsteren )
• John Irving: A Middleweight Marriage. Zurich 1986
• John Irving: The fourth hand. Zurich 2002
• Henry James : In England to be happy. Munich 1988
• Diane Johnson : Dashiell Hammett. Zurich 1985
• James D. Landis : In bed with Clara. Reinbek near Hamburg 1997
• Jonathan Latimer : Race against time. Zurich 1990
• David H. Lawrence : Mr. Noon. Zurich 1985
• Harper Lee : Who disturbs the nightingale. Revision of the first translation by Claire Malignon, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-03808-3 .
• Wyndham Lewis : The Art of Being Ruled. Waltrop et al. 2004
• Ben Lerner : Farewell to Atocha. Reinbek near Hamburg 2013
• Shane Maloney : Unlucky artists. Zurich 2000
• Karl Marlantes : Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War . Zurich et al. 2012
• Lee Martin : Too normal a murder. Cologne 1995
• Peter Mayne : One year in Marrakech. Munich 1989
• Cormac McCarthy : No country for old men . Reinbek near Hamburg 2008
• Cormac McCarthy: Land of the Free. Reinbek near Hamburg 2001
• Cormac McCarthy: The Street . Reinbek near Hamburg 2007
• Margaret Millar : Rose's last appearance. Zurich 1994
• Andrew Miller : The Gift of Pain. Vienna 1998
• Andrew Miller: A little story that is mostly about love. Vienna 2000
• Andrew Miller: After the big quake. Vienna 2010
• Andrew Miller: The optimists. Vienna 2007
• Andrew Miller: Ten or fifteen of the happiest moments in life. Vienna 2003
• Rick Moody : An American weekend. Munich et al. 1998
• Rick Moody: Until I'm not angry anymore. Munich et al. 2001
• Rick Moody: The Ice Storm. Munich et al. 1995
• Brian Moore : The Temptation of Eileen Hughes. Zurich 1995
• VS Naipaul : On the slave route. Hamburg 1999
• Edna O'Brien : The little red chairs. Göttingen 2017 (translated together with Kathrin Razum )
• Joseph O'Neill : Netherlands. Reinbek near Hamburg 2009
• George Orwell : From Pearl Harbor to Stalingrad. Vienna et al. 1993
• George Orwell: The Delights of Aspidistra. Zurich 1983
• John Cowper Powys : Autobiography. Munich 1992
• Thomas Pynchon : Against the day. Reinbek near Hamburg 2008 (translated together with Dirk van Gunsteren )
• Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon . Reinbek near Hamburg 1999
• Thomas Pynchon: Natural defects. Reinbek near Hamburg 2010
• Mark Richard : Fish Child. Reinbek near Hamburg 1995
• Mark Richard: Not an ordinary girl. Reinbek near Hamburg 2005
• Neal Stephenson : Anathema. Munich 2010 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Neal Stephenson: Confusion . Munich 2006 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon . Munich 2001 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Neal Stephenson: Amalthea. Munich 2015 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Neal Stephenson: Error. Munich 2012 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Neal Stephenson: Principia . Munich 2008 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver . Munich 2004 (translated together with Juliane Gräbener-Müller)
• Joseph Wambaugh : The Rolls Royce Dead. Bayreuth 1987
• Joseph Wambaugh: The Susan Reinert Case. Munich 1991
• Donald E. Westlake : Nobody runs forever. Vienna 2009
• Colson Whitehead : Apex. Munich 2007
• Colson Whitehead: John Henry Days. Munich et al. 2004
• Colson Whitehead: The Colossus of New York. Munich et al. 2005
• Colson Whitehead: Last Summer on Long Island. Munich 2011
• Colson Whitehead: Zone One. Munich 2014
• Colson Whitehead: Underground Railroad. Munich 2017
• Cornell Woolrich : The night wears black. Munich 1991
• Hideo Yokoyama : 64 . Hamburg 2018 (translated together with Sabine Roth)
• Edgardo Vega Yunqué : A Story of Love and Death. Munich 2005

Web links

• Stingl in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, 2019
• Sven Ahnert: On the hunt for the right tone. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 30, 2010, accessed October 28, 2013 . 
• Interview with translator Nikolaus Stingl about the Leipzig Book Fair. In: New Westphalian . March 15, 2012, accessed October 28, 2013 . 

supporting documents

1. ↑ Paul Auster and his American novel "4 3 2 1" , Der Tagesspiegel from January 28, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017