Rainer Kersten

Rainer Kersten (born December 15, 1964 in Bebra ) is a German translator .

Life

Rainer Kersten studied German , Dutch and Romance languages in Berlin and Amsterdam from 1986 to 1993 and completed his studies with a master's degree . Kersten lives in Berlin and translates narrative literature, theater plays and non-fiction books from Dutch into German . In 1995 he received a sponsorship award from the Berlin Senate . In 2014 he was awarded the Else Otten Translator Prize for the translation of Dimitri Verhulst's novel The Librarian, who would rather have dementia than at home with his wife .

Kersten is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Translations

• Willem Bijsterbosch : The Body Slave , Berlin 1996
• Paul Binnerts : Real time acting , Berlin [a. a.] 2014
• The blue-eyed octopus , Frankfurt am Main 1996
• Martine Carton : Fatma's story , Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Arnon Grunberg : Amour fou , Zurich 2002
• Arnon Grunberg: Blue Monday , Zurich 1997
• Arnon Grunberg: Couchsurfing and other battles , Zurich 2013
• Arnon Grunberg: Grace period , Zurich 2006
• Arnon Grunberg: The saint of the impossible , Zurich 2007
• Arnon Grunberg: The Jewish Messiah , Zurich 2013
• Arnon Grunberg: The man who was never sick , Cologne 2014
• Arnon Grunberg: With skin and hair , Zurich 2012
• Arnon Grunberg: Taken , Zurich 2010
• Arnon Grunberg: Monogam , Zurich 2003
• Arnon Grunberg: Phantom Pain , Zurich 2003
• Arnon Grunberg: Extras , Zurich 1999
• Arnon Grunberg: Tirza , Zurich 2008
• Arnon Grunberg: The bird is sick , Zurich 2005
• Tom Lanoye : Atropa , Frankfurt am Main 2010
• Tom Lanoye: Mamma Medea. Mefisto forever , Frankfurt am Main 2007
• Tom Lanoye: Butcher's son with flashy glasses and other stories , Hildesheim 1995
• Tom Lanoye: Cardboard boxes or how do I tell him? , Berlin 2006
• Tom Lanoye: Battles! , Frankfurt am Main 1999 (translated together with Klaus Reichert)
• Herman Pleij : The dream of a land of milk and honey , Frankfurt am Main 2000
• Peter Verhelst : Romeo and Juliet , Frankfurt am Main 2002
• Dimitri Verhulst : The Shit of Things , Munich 2007
• Dimitri Verhulst: The librarian who preferred dementia than at home with his wife , Munich 2014
• Dimitri Verhulst: Goddamn days on a goddamn planet , Munich 2010
• Dimitri Verhulst: My mother's last love , Munich 2011
• Dimitri Verhulst: Madame Verona descends the hill , Munich 2008
• Dimitri Verhulst: Monologue of a woman who fell into the habit of talking to herself , Bielefeld 2013
• Pieter Waterdrinker : The Wedding of Zandvoort , Berlin 2007
• Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer : The most beautiful girl in Genoa , Berlin 2016

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Else Otten Translator Prize