Ragni Maria Gschwend
Ragni Maria Gschwend (born September 10, 1935 in Immenstadt ) is a German translator for Italian literature and publishing consultant. She has lived in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1976 .
Life
After school, high school and a book trade apprenticeship , publishing work in Cologne, studying Italian in Perugia, Munich and Siena as well as after stays abroad in England and Paris, Gschwend now lives as a freelance translator in Freiburg. She was involved in the rowohlt's deutsche enzyklopädie series as an editorial assistant and was the managing director of the Bavarian Writers' Association .
She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Since 2001 she has been President of the Friends of the International Promotion of Literary and Scientific Translations. V.
Gschwend is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.
Scholarships, Honors and Awards
- 1982: Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
- 1983: Premio Montecchio Maggiore
- 1988: Premio Internazionale JW Goethe
- 1989: Premio Monselice (Italo Svevo)
- 1989: Premio Circe Sabaudia (translation of the poetry by Margherita Guidacci)
- 1992: Annual scholarship for writers from the Ministry of Science and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 1995: Reinhold Schneider Prize sponsorship award
- 1995: Calwer Hermann Hesse scholarship
- 2006: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair in the translation category
- 2006: Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2008: Paul Celan Prize
- 2008: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
- 2015: German-Italian translator award for life's work
Author
- 60 years of VdÜ . From the souvenir pot of a member of the second hour, in Sovereign Bridge Builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators. Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Special issue from Language in the Technical Age , SpritZ, Ed. Thomas Geiger et al. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN 0038-8475 pp. 61–67
- with François Bondy : Italo Svevo . Pictorial biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995
Translations (selection)
- Carlo Emilio Gadda : Diary of the prisoner of war 1918 , in: The poets' barracks. To Klampen, Lüneburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86674-401-1
- Claudio Magris : The Alphabet of the World. Of books and people. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23759-9
- Antonio Moresco: New beginnings. Novel. Ammann, Zurich 2005. Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair , 2006 (Gli esordi)
- Ed., Translator: Capricci. Quirky stories from 20th century Italian authors. dtv-bilingual, Munich 2005. Texts by Stefano Benni , Alessandro Boffa, Italo Calvino , Ennio Flaiano , Tommaso Landolfi , Luigi Pirandello , J. Rodolfo Wilcock
Web links
- Literature by and about Ragni Maria Gschwend in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 52 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gschwend, Ragni Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ragni Maria Seidl-Gschwend |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Immenstadt |