Patricia Klobusiczky

Patricia Klobusiczky (born April 3, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German literary translator , trained at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

life and work

Klobusiczky initially worked as an editor for Rowohlt Verlag , from 1996 to 2000 in the paperback division and from 2000 to 2005 at Rowohlt Berlin.

From 2016 to 2019 she heads the Georges Arthur Goldschmidt Program, a training program for young literary translators from French and German into the other language and from three countries (D, F, CH ), which is supported by various institutions . The carriers are u. a. the Frankfurt Book Fair , Bureau International de l'Édition Française, the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia , a Franco-German youth organization is responsible for the coordination .

Klobusiczky has been a freelance translator from French and English since 2006 , as well as a moderator and editor .

She also translated into French as a target language , e.g. B. a comic by Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin de Vries 2006.

Patricia Klobusiczky has been the national chairwoman of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, since March 2017 . Since 2016 she has been a mentor for literary translators and in 2018 she heads the “Translators' Seminar - Literary Colloquium Berlin ”. As a lecturer, she works a. as part of the master's degree in "Applied Literature" at the Free University of Berlin , and at the Berlin "Academy for Authors".

"A unique opportunity for everyone involved, including the mentor, to deal intensively with the diversity of Francophone literature, to work with enthusiasm for its communication and to translate it according to all the rules of the art."

- Patricia Klobusiczky on the mentoring program

Translations (selection)

• Molly Antopol : The Un-American. Stories. Hanser, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-446-24771-0
• William Boyd : A great time. Novel. Berlin Verlag, 2012 ISBN 978-3-8270-1066-7 (also at Büchergilde Gutenberg ; also on 6 CDs ISBN 978-3-86231-181-1 )
• William Boyd: Solo. A James Bond novel . Berlin Verlag 2013 ISBN 978-3-8270-1158-9
• William Boyd: The Photographer. The many lives of Amory Clay. Novel. Translated together with Ulrike Thiesmeyer. Berlin Verlag, 2016 ISBN 978-3-8270-1287-6
• Marie Darrieussecq : Princesses. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-446-24120-6 (Also on 5 CDs: ISBN 978-3-86952-039-1 )
• Marie Darrieussecq: You have to love men very much. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-446-24902-8
• Matthias Debureaux : The art of boring others with your travelogues. Nagel & Kimche , Zurich 2017 ISBN 978-3-312-01027-1
• (Translated with Miriam Mandelkow) Coerte VW Felske: Millennium Girl. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000
• Anke Feuchtenberger, Valérie de Vries: La putain P fait sa ronde. Comic. From the German. by PK - Frémok, Brussels 2006 ISBN 2-35065-010-3
• Petina Gappah : The colors of the moth. Novel. Arche, Zurich 2016 ISBN 978-3-7160-2750-9
• Petina Gappah: The Guilty Party of Rotten Row. Arche, Zurich 2017 (November) ISBN 978-3-7160-2763-9
• Jean Gaudon: From Hugo to Asterix . Walter Scott's influence in France, in Lothar Jordan, Bernd Kortländer , ed .: National borders and international exchange. Studies on the transfer of culture and science in Europe. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011 (first Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995) ISBN 3-484-63010-8 pp. 121-138
• Françoise Giroud : "I am a free woman". Autobiography. Ed. Alix de Saint-André. Paul Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 2016 ISBN 978-3-552-05766-1
• Frances Itani : Above the stream. A novel in ten stories. From the Canadian Engl.- Berlin Verlag, 2009 ISBN 978-3-8270-0622-6
• Frances Itani: The birthday. From the Canadian Engl.- Berlin Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8270-0847-3
• Frances Itani: Requiem. Novel. Berlin-Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8270-1091-9 (also as e-book : ISBN 978-3-8270-7756-1 )
• Lorrie Moore : The Frog Queen. Novel. Berliner Taschenbuchverlag , Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-8333-0755-3
• (Translated with Frank Heibert ) Lorrie Moore: A gate to the world. Novel. Berlin Verlag, 2011
• Jean Prévost : The salt in the wound. Novel. Manesse, Zurich 2015 ISBN 978-3-7175-2338-3
• Henri-Pierre Roché : Jules and Jim . Novel. Newly translated. With an essay by François Truffaut . Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt 2016 ISBN 978-3-89561-264-0
• Curtis Sittenfeld : So I love him. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-378-00681-2 ; again construction of the TB, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-7466-2485-3
• Louise de Vilmorin : love story. Novel. Newly translated from the French. - Dörlemann, Zurich 2009 ISBN 978-3-908777-37-3
• Louise de Vilmorin: Julietta. Novel. Newly translated. Dörlemann Verlag , Zurich 2010 ISBN 978-3-908777-53-3
• Louise de Vilmorin: Madame de ... Roman. Newly translated. - Dörlemann, Zurich 2011 ISBN 978-3-908777-74-8
• Louise de Vilmorin: The letter in the taxi. Novel. Dörlemann, Zurich 2016 ISBN 978-3-03820-033-8
• Valérie Zenatti : Jacob, Jacob. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt 2017 (August) ISBN 978-3-89561-462-0
• We declare peace! CD, sound carrier. By Stéphane Hessel , Dalai Lama . Director: Margrit Osterwold . Eds. Sylvie Crossman, Jean-Pierre Barou. Voices: Alicia Aumüller, Jörg Pohl, Sebastian Rudolph . Audiobook Hamburg, 2012 ISBN 978-3-89903-397-7
• Just friends. The True Story of Caretaker Driss, from Pretty Best Friends . CD, abridged reading, Ed. Abdel Sellou. Director: Margrit Osterwold. Voice of Sascha Rotermund . Übers. PK, Lis Künzli. Audiobook Hamburg, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86909-116-7 (as print: Ullstein, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-548-28518-4 )

Other things to translate

• Why did I join the VdÜ? In: Sovereign bridge builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators. For the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Special issue language in the technical age , SpritZ. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2014 ISBN 978-3-412-22284-0 ISSN  0038-8475 p. 93
• No party without clay. Translators in Bellevue , in Zs. Translate , 2, 2015, p. 1
  • Joachim Gauck : Castle evening to honor literary translators. , ibid., in response
• We are only strong as a closed group. Klobusiczky and her co-chair in the VdÜ, Maria Hummitzsch , on the association work, interview at the Wolfenbüttel VdÜ conference 2018, in: TraLaLit, December 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Patricia Klobusiczky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Patricia Klobusiczky is an editor . She discovers young writing talents in the capital: the pearl diver. Berliner Zeitung , April 3, 2002, by Silke Stuck
• Klobusiczky in the translator database of the VdÜ, with list of works, 2019
• Literature translator: the work of the creative "Korinthenkacker". Klobusiczky and Jürgen Jakob Becker in conversation with Frank Meyer, Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Format "Lesart", July 21, 2017

notes

1. ↑ Use the Goldschmidt program for translators. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .