Olaf Kühl

Olaf Kühl, Frankfurt Book Fair 2013

Olaf Kühl (* 1955 in Sanderbusch ) is a German Slavist , translator and author.

Life

Kühl studied Slavic Studies, Eastern European History and Contemporary History at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1996 he has been working as Russia officer for the Governing Mayor of Berlin .

He translates literary works from Polish and Russian and was awarded the Karl Dedecius Prize in 2005 for his Polish-German translation work. In 2011 he presented his debut novel Dead Animals . For his second novel, The True Son , he was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2013, and in 2016 his translation of the novel Drach by Szczepan Twardoch, together with the work itself, was awarded the Brücke Berlin Prize for Literature and Translation .

honors and awards

• 2005 German Youth Literature Prize together with Dorota Masłowska for Snow White and Russian Red.
• 2008 Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation
• 2011/2012 (winter semester): visiting professor at FU Berlin , Peter Szondi Institute , by the German Translation Fund
• 2015 POLONICUM award from the University of Warsaw "for outstanding services to the dissemination of the Polish language and Polish culture abroad".
• 2016 Brücke Berlin Literature and Translator Prize
• 2018: Helmut M. Braem Translator Award for the translation of the novel The Boxer by Szczepan Twardoch as well as for Kühl's complete oeuvre from Ukrainian, Russian and Polish

Publications

• Dead animals. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-725-2 .
• The real son. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-726-9 .
• Last game Berlin. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0075-5 .

Translations

• Arkady Babchenko : The Color of War . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-558-6 .
• Arkady Babchenko: A good place to die . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-641-5 .
• Arkady Babchenko: A day like a life. About the war . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-765-8 .
• Wacław Berent : Winter seeds. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 978-3518035795 .
• Kazimierz Brandys: Rondo. Novel. Luchterhand Verlag, Munich 1988.
• Anna Czerwińska-Rydel, Marta Ignerska: The tone showers . Mixtvision Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3939435822 .
• Witold Gombrowicz : Cosmos. Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3446143456 .
• Witold Gombrowicz: Diary. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-446-15379-9 .
• Witold Gombrowicz: Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy. Play (new translation). Fischer Published by Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Witold Gombrowicz: Berlin Notes. edition.fotoTAPETA, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940524-24-9 .
• Witold Gombrowicz: Kronos. Intimate diary. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24903-5 .
• Aleksandr Kabakov: No turning back . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 978-3100396068 .
• Dorota Masłowska : Snow white and Russian red. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03376-X .
• Dorota Masłowska: The Heron Queen. A rap. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03778-4 .
• Dorota Masłowska: Two poor, Polish-speaking Romanians. Play. Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Reinbek 2008.
• Dorota Masłowska: We get on well with each other. Play. Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Reinbek 2009.
• Dorota Masłowska: How I became a witch. Play. Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Reinbek 2014.
• Dorota Masłowska: Darling, I killed the cats. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04719-6 .
• Dorota Masłowska: Different people . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3737100724 .
• Adam Michnik : The long farewell to communism. Essays (with Roswitha Matwin-Buschmann). Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 978-3499130724 .
• Iwan Puni : synthetic musician. Berlinische Galerie, Museumspädagogischer Dienst Berlin (Ed.), Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-438-6 .
• Władysław St. Reymont : In the opium den. Unknown short stories (with Renate Schmidgall). Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3518402078 .
• Tomasz Różycki : Twelve stations. Novel. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3630621029 .
• Polina Scherebzowa : Polina's diary. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-87134-799-3 .
• Christian Skrzyposzek : Free grandstand. Novel. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1983.
• Żanna Słoniowska : The light of women. Kampa Verlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3311100034 .
• Andrzej Stasiuk : The white raven. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3871342820 .
• Andrzej Stasiuk: The world behind Dukla. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000. ISBN 978-3518398913 .
• Andrzej Stasiuk: How I became a writer: An attempt at an intellectual autobiography. edition suhrkamp 2236. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001. ISBN 978-3518122365 .
• Andrzej Stasiuk: The walls of Hebron. edition suhrkamp 2302.Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3518123027 .
• Andrzej Stasiuk: Night. Play. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005.
• Andrzej Stasiuk: Ostmark. Play. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
• Andrzej Stasiuk: Dojczland. A travel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3518125663 .
• Andrzej Stasiuk: Diary, written afterwards. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3518126547 .
• Szczepan Twardoch : Morphine. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-779-5 .
• Szczepan Twardoch: Dragon. Novel . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-822-8 .
• Szczepan Twardoch: The boxer. Novel . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7371-0008-3 .
• Szczepan Twardoch: Whales and Moths: Diary of Life and Travel. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3737100663 .
• Lech Wałęsa : A Path of Hope (autobiography), with Friedrich Griese. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1987.
• Michał Witkowski : Queen Barbara. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3518126059 .
• Wiktor Woroszylski: Stories. Literary Colloquium, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin 1987.
• Adam Zagajewski : The thin line. Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3446140400 .
• Adam Zagajewski: Solidarity and Solitude. Essays. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3446145276 .
• Adam Zagajewski: Defense of Passion. Essays. (With Henryk Bereska and Bernhard Hartmann). Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3446257153 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Olaf Kühl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Olaf Kühl in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Author portrait at Rowohlt-Verlag
• Website of Olaf Kühl
• Cool about Szczepan Twardoch and the translation work on “Drach”, Potsdamer Latest News , November 21, 2016. U. a. to translate water Polish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Olaf Kühl did a great job. In a sense, he synthesized the Upper Silesian dialect by transporting it into Lower Silesian, which is closer to us and more understandable in this country. Every word had to be researched, every sentence had to be checked for its authentic sound. “Drach” also presents translators with multiple challenges: a concise, sometimes karst diction interspersed with staccato, action sequences that breathlessly move back and forth in a paragraph between decades and centuries, sentences peppered with details from mining, the Gun and automobile knowledge, because the heroes, it should be noted, are mostly men. The result is a multi-layered text landscape in which the history of Upper Silesia is echoed in an unmistakable sound. "Sabine Berking in the magazine Translate , 1, 2017 (online)
2. ^ German Youth Literature Award 2005
3. ↑ https:// Grenzgaengerprogramm.de/autor/kuehl-olaf
4. ↑ [1]