Petra Willim
Petra Willim (* 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary scholar and translator .
Life
Petra Willim received her doctorate in 1995 from the University of Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on the female figures of Goethe . Today she lives as a translator in Frankfurt am Main and works as a high school teacher at the Lichtenberg-Oberstufengymnasium in Bruchköbel .
Petra Willim mainly translates non-fiction books from French . She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works .
In 2005, she was honored for her translation of Jean-Paul Sartre - Biography of Bernard-Henri Lévy with Christoph Martin Wieland Translation Prize awarded.
Works
- Born as free as a man? , Koenigstein im Taunus 1997
Translations
- Laure Adler : Marguerite Duras , Frankfurt am Main 2000
- Elisabeth Badinter : The Rediscovery of Equality , Munich 2004
- Luc Besson : Arthur and the Minimoys , Frankfurt am Main 2005 (translated together with Michael Wenzel)
- Stephen Eric Bronner : Moments of Decision , Frankfurt am Main 2000
- Jorge Bucay : Love with Open Eyes , Zurich 2008
- René Girard : The misunderstood voice of the real , Munich 2005
- Raymond Klibansky : Memory of a Century , Frankfurt am Main 2001
- Bernard-Henri Lévy : Sartre , Munich 2002
- Michel Onfray : The Rebel , Stuttgart 2001
- Jean-Michel Quinodoz: Reading Freud , Giessen 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willim, Petra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |