Philip Boehm
Philip Boehm (* 1958 in Texas ) is an American theater maker and literary translator.
Life
Philip Boehm studied at Wesleyan University ( Connecticut ) and Washington University in St. Louis , as well as at the Warsaw Theater Academy . He worked in theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004 he founded the "Upstream Theater" in St. Louis, where he stages himself and for which he also writes his own plays. He adapted the drama fragment Woyzeck from Georg Büchner and brought it to the stage in 2009 in its translation. In 2009 he also translated a stage adaptation of Das Kalkwerk by Thomas Bernhard for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City .
He translated from Polish into English a. a. Works by Stefan Chwin , Ida Fink and the Warsaw Ghetto Book by Michał Grynberg , from the German Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann , In the Thicket of Cities by Bertolt Brecht , as well as works by Günter Grass , Christoph Hein , Franz Kafka , Herta Müller , Rafik Schami , Peter Schneider and Tilman Spengler . He translated an umbrella for this day from 2001 by Wilhelm Genazino .
honors and awards
He was accepted as a fellow in the Guggenheim Foundation . He has received grants and awards a. a. from the Society of Authors , the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Texas Institute of Letters .
In the German-speaking area he was funded by the Austrian Ministry of Education . In 2013 he received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for the translation of Gregor von Rezzori's novel An Hermelin in Tschernopol . For the translation of Herta Müller's Nobel Prize novel Atemschaukel , Boehm was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2013 .
Fonts (selection)
- Some Pitfalls of Translating Drama . Translation Review, Vol. 62 No. 1, 2001, pp. 27-29
Translations (selection)
- Directory of Boehm's translations at PEN
- Herta Müller: The hunger angel . New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, Holt, 2012
- Gregor von Rezzori: To ermine of Czernopol . New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2011
- Christoph Hein: Settlement: a novel . New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008. Land grab
- Marta Hillers : A woman in Berlin: eight weeks in the conquered city: a diary . New York, NY: Picador, 2005. A woman in Berlin
- Christoph Hein: Willenbrock: a novel . New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.
- Rafik Schami : Damascus nights . New York: Scribner, 1995.
- Franz Kafka: Letters to Milena . New York: Schocken Books, 1990.
Web links
- Literature by and about Philip Boehm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Philip Boehm in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Philip Boehm , at Upstream Theater
- Conversations with an executioner (Jürgen Stroop)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philip Boehm ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 233 kB), born at Bosch Foundation
- ^ A b c Philip Boehm , Vita with Guggenheim Fellows
- ↑ Letters to Milena in the English Wikipedia en: Letters to Milena
- ↑ Grants 2008 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , National Endowment for the Arts
- ↑ Atemschaukel , FAZ , June 22, 2013, p. 34
- ^ Directory of Boehm's translations
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Boehm, Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Texas |