Rainer G. Schmidt
Rainer G. Schmidt ( pseudonym : Ranuit ; born April 6, 1950 in Riegelsberg ( Saarland ) as Rainer Carl Gustav Schmidt ) is a German translator and poet .
Life
Rainer G. Schmidt attended high school in Saarbrücken . From 1968 he studied art history , philosophy , German and sociology at the universities of Saarbrücken and Marburg . He graduated with the first state examination. Schmidt has lived in Berlin as a freelance writer and translator since 1976 .
Schmidt published his first literary texts as a schoolboy. A selection of his poems was published in 2000 under the title “The Snow Fall”. Since the 1970s , when he began to translate Arthur Rimbaud's complete works into German with Hans Therre, the focus of Schmidt's work has been on the translation of prose texts and poems from English and French.
Awards
In addition to numerous scholarships, including from the German Translation Fund and the German Literature Fund, Rainer G. Schmidt received the Paul Celan Prize in 1998 for his translation of Herman Melville's novel “Mardi and a journey there” . In 2015 he was awarded the Paul Scheerbart Prize for his translation of “Selected Poems” by Wallace Stevens .
Works
- Rainer G. Schmidt: The fall of snow. 111 G. density . Achilla-Presse, Hamburg / Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-928398-62-8 .
Translations
- Sherwood Anderson : Many marriages. Butjadingen 2011
- Gertrude Atherton : The bell in the mist. Butjadingen 2010
- Tzimon Barto : Dot. Butjadingen 2009
- Roger Caillois : The writing of the stones. Graz 2004
- Roger Caillois: Patagonia and other forays . Graz 2016
- Roger Caillois: The Alpheios River . Berlin 2016
- Philippe Claudel : The sound of the keys. Berlin 2010
- Joseph Conrad : Enchantment. Hamburg 2000
- William Henry Hudson : Far away and a long time ago. Butjadingen 2008
- William Henry Hudson: Idle Days in Patagonia. Butjadingen 2007
- William Henry Hudson: El Ombú. Berlin 2007
- Victor Hugo : The workers of the sea. Hamburg 2003
- Victor Hugo: The man with the laugh . Butjadingen 2013
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues : The edge. Berlin 2012
- Abdelwahab Meddeb : Between Europe and Islam. Heidelberg 2007
- Herman Melville : Clarel. Salzburg 2006
- Herman Melville: Mardi and a trip there. 2 vols. Hamburg 1997
- Henri Michaux : "In the Land of Magic" & "Here Poddema". Graz 1996
- Gerald Murnane : The levels . Berlin 2017
- Gerald Murnane: Border Districts . Berlin 2019
- Michael Palmer: Eighth sky. Cologne 2005
- Michael Palmer: Reply. Berlin 2012
- Edgar Allan Poe : The Mask of the Red Death. Hamburg 2001
- Ambrose GH Pratt : Menura. Berlin 2011
- Arthur Rimbaud : Illuminations. Vienna 2004
- Arthur Rimbaud: Poetic Works. Munich (translated with Hans Therre )
- Prose. 1979
- The drunken ship. 1980
- Arthur Rimbaud: Page leaps. Munich 1986 (translated with Hans Therre)
- Victor Segalen : Paintings. Berlin 2003
- Victor Segalen: Steles. Graz 2000
- Robert Louis Stevenson : The Dynamite Conspirator. Butjadingen 2006
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Leprosy . Berlin 2013
- Wallace Stevens : Parts of a World. Selected poems. Young and Young, Salzburg 2014
- Henry David Thoreau : day Bücher 1 . Berlin 2016
- Henry David Thoreau: Diary 2. Berlin 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer G. Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rainer G. Schmidt. In: Urs Engeler Editor. Retrieved on April 10, 2013 (portrait of the author on the publisher's website).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Rainer G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ranuit; Schmidt, Rainer Carl Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riegelsberg ( Saarland ) |