Paul Berf

Paul Berf (born November 23, 1963 in Frechen ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Paul Berf completed a degree in Scandinavian , German and English , which he completed with a master's degree. He then worked as a publishing editor. Today he lives as a freelance translator in Cologne . Berf translates narrative works and poetry from Swedish , Norwegian and Danish into German . He is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . In 2005 he was awarded the Swedish Academy's Translation Prize, and in 2014 he received the Jane Scatcherd Prize for translators “for his congenial translation of the novel project by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård ”.

Works

• Traveling through time and space, a thematic analysis by Gunnar Ekelöf's “En Mölna-Elegi”. Morsbach 1995, ISBN 3-927153-32-X .

Editing

• with Gert Kreutzer : A river in the heart. Cologne 1997.
• with Astrid Surmatz: Astrid Lindgren. Frankfurt am Main 2000.

Translations (previously 71)

• Henrik Berggren : Olof Palme. Munich 2011 (translated with Susanne Dahmann)
• Cilla Börjlind : The spring tide. Munich 2013
• Håkan Bravinger : An unforgiving heart. Munich 2010
• Sigrid Combüche : What is left over. Munich 2012
• Peter Englund : Humanity at zero. Stuttgart 2001
• Kjell Eriksson : The cruel stars of the night. Vienna 2005
• Kjell Eriksson: Nightjar. Munich 2008.
• Kjell Eriksson: The stone bed. Leipzig 2002.
• Kjell Eriksson: The dead man in the snow. Leipzig 2003.
• Tomas Espedal : Walking or The Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life. Berlin 2011
• Aris Fioretos : Escape and Metamorphosis. Berlin 2010
• Aris Fioretos: half the sun. Munich 2013.
• Aris Fioretos: the last Greek. Munich 2011.
• Aris Fioretos: The measure of a foot. Munich 2008.
• Aris Fioretos: My black skull. Berlin 2003.
• Aris Fioretos: The Soulseeker. Cologne 2000.
• Aris Fioretos: The Truth About Sascha Knisch. Cologne 2003.
• Torbjörn Flygt : Made in Sweden. Bergisch Gladbach 2004
• Tua Forsström : I have an amber ring that shimmers through the lake water. Horn 2007
• Inger Frimansson : Good night, my beloved. Munich 2002
• Inger Frimansson: The island of naked women. Munich 2004.
• Inger Frimansson: The cat that didn't want to die. Munich 2004.
• Inger Frimansson: The unscrupulous. Munich 2006.
• Kirsten Holst : You shouldn't kill! Dortmund 2000.
• Jonas Karlsson : The room. Munich 2016.
• Lars Kepler : Flame Children. Cologne 2012
• Lars Kepler: The hypnotist. Cologne 2010.
• Lars Kepler: Paganini's curse. Cologne 2011.
• Lars Kepler: The Sandman. Cologne 2014.
• Karl Ove Knausgård : Everything has its time. Munich 2007
• Karl Ove Knausgård: Love. Munich 2012.
• Karl Ove Knausgård: Play. Munich 2013.
• Karl Ove Knausgård: To die. Munich 2011.
• Karl Ove Knausgård: Dreaming. Munich 2015.
• Gunnar Kopperud : sorely missed. Stuttgart 2004
• Selma Lagerlöf : The Story of Gösta Berling. Munich 2007
• Åsa Linderborg : I don't belong to anyone. Munich 2009
• John Ajvide Lindqvist : In secret. Cologne 2010
• John Ajvide Lindqvist: Human Harbor . Bergisch Gladbach 2009.
• John Ajvide Lindqvist: So dark the night. Bergisch Gladbach 2007.
• John Ajvide Lindqvist: So rest in peace. Bergisch Gladbach 2008.
• Henning Mankell : The eye of the leopard. Vienna 2004
• Henning Mankell: Dogs from Riga. Berlin 1993 (translated with Barbara Sirges)
• Henning Mankell: Faceless murderer. Berlin 1993 (translated with Barbara Sirges)
• Liza Marklund : Paradise. Hamburg 2002
• Liza Marklund: The red wolf. Hamburg 2004.
• Ellen Mattson : The blue picture , Stuttgart 2001.
• Ellen Mattson: The Freudenufer. Munich 2012.
• Magnus Montelius : A friend from the old days. Munich et al. 2013
• Cilla Naumann : Erik's room. Munich 2003.
• Håkan Nesser : On the evening of the murder. Munich 2012.
• Håkan Nesser: The Living and Dead of Winsford. Munich 2014.
• Fredrik Sjöberg : The fly trap. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Fredrik Sjöberg: The art of escaping. Berlin 2012.
• Fredrik Sjöberg: Der Raisinenkönig or From the unconditional devotion to strange passions. Berlin 2011.
• Fredrik Sjöberg: What are you doing all this for? Stories and essays. Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25064-2 .
• Maj Sjöwall : terminus for nine. Reinbek near Hamburg 2008.
• Maj Sjöwall: The man on the balcony. Reinbek near Hamburg 2008.
• Maj Sjöwall: Locked and locked. Reinbek near Hamburg 2008.
• Andreas Tjernshaugen : The hidden life of the tits . Insel, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-17723-4 .
• Jerker Virdborg : rock country. Munich 2010.
• Torkel S. Wächter : 32 postcards. Hamburg 2014.
• Kjell Westö : Don't go lonely into the night. Munich 2013.
• Kjell Westö: Aunt Elsie and my last summer. Munich 2006.
• Kjell Westö: The drumming of the rain. Munich 2008.
• Kjell Westö: The mirage . Munich 2014.
• Kjell Westö: The risk of being a skrake. Munich 2005.
• Kjell Westö: Where we used to go. Munich 2008.
• Carl-Henning Wijkmark : The hunters on Karinhall. Berlin 2007.
• Carl-Henning Wijkmark: Approaching night. Berlin 2009.
• Where earth and sky meet. Petersberg 2008 (translated with Birgit Hillje).

Web links

• On the presentation of the Jane Scatchered Prize, by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel : Presentation of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize to Stefan Weidner , Paul Berf and Bettina Abarbanell , Frankfurt, October 10, 2014, on Berf the chapters: Cologne sociability and meat and open the gate to the foreign language. In Translate , Zs. Des VdÜ , 1, 2015, p. 6 (report)