Peter Urban Hall

Peter Urban-Halle (born January 16, 1951 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German literary critic and literary translator .

Life

Peter Urban-Hall grew up in Dortmund and completed a study of the German and Scandinavian studies in Berlin and Copenhagen , he with the master's degree graduated (with a thesis on the German playwright Ernst Toller ). In the 1980s he was a lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the Free University of Berlin and lives as a translator and literary critic for Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutschlandfunk and various daily newspapers in Berlin. He is a connoisseur of French and Scandinavian literature and acts as a moderator of literary events. From 1993 to 1995 he was editor of the Berlin magazine for literature LITFASS.

Urban-Halle translates fiction from Danish and French into German . He is a member of the Association of German Writers and the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works .

Together with the author Bjarne Reuter, he was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 2000 for the work "Hodder der Nachtschwärmer", which he translated ; In 2010 Urban-Halle received the European Translator Award Offenburg and in 2013 the Danish Translator Award together with Ulrich Sonnenberg .

Works

• Seasons of French cuisine , Berlin 2013 (with Françoise Hynek)

Editing

• Nordic poetry: signals of a world . The Horen 146, 1987
• The land of opportunity. Literature and art from Denmark . The Horen 162, 1991

• [[Hanns Grössel]]: Detours to reality. Essays and reviews on Scandinavian literature . Düsseldorf 2019

• Light over the land. Danish poetry from the Middle Ages to today (together with Henning Vangsgaard). Munich 2020

Translations (selection)

• Well Marie Aidt : Sweets , Munich 2009
• Well Marie Aidt: The watermark , Hamburg [u. a.] 1995
• [[Hans Christian Andersen]]: Reise im Ballon , Göttingen 2018
• Henrik Bjelke : Timetable for Otto , Frankfurt am Main 1995
• Georg Brandes : Berlin as the German capital , Berlin 1989
• Sophus Claussen : Antonius in Paris. Pilgrimage , Mainz 2011 (translated together with Hanns Grössel and Bernhard Glienke)
• Leif Davidsen : The Moment of Truth , Vienna 1999
• Agnès Desarthe : About small secrets and big feet , Hamburg 2001
• Jens Christian Grøndahl : Silence in October , Vienna 1999
• Jens Christian Grøndahl: Days in March , Cologne 2011
• Kirsten Hammann : Vera Winkelvir , Hamburg [a. a.] 1997
• Peter Høeg : The silent girl , Munich 2007
• Peter Høeg: The Susan Effect , Munich 2015
• Per Højholt : The Poet's Head , Straelen 1998 (translated with Henning Vangsgaard)
• Per Højholt: Auricula , Frankfurt am Main 2003
• Pia Juul : eyes everywhere , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2001
• Josefine Klougart: One of us is sleeping , Berlin 2019
• Johan de Mylius : The Metamorphosis Prize , Würzburg 2010
• Leif Panduro : The Indecent , Hamburg 1991
• Bjarne Reuter : Hodder, the night owl , Hamburg 1999
• Klaus Rifbjerg : Septembersang , Münster 1991
• Jan Sonnergaard : Radiator , Hamburg [u. a.] 2000
• Janne Teller : Come on , Munich 2012
• Knud Wentzel : The golden apple , Würzburg 2014

Web links

• Urban-Halle in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ, 2019