Renate Orth-Guttmann

Renate M. Orth-Guttmann (* 28. August 1935 in Berlin as Renate Guttmann ) is a German translator .

Life

Renate Orth-Guttmann completed her studies in English and Slavic studies with a master's degree . Today she lives in Frankfurt am Main . She began translating works of fiction and non-fiction from English in the mid-1960s . The numerous authors she has translated include Joan Aiken , Roddy Doyle , David Lodge , Joyce Carol Oates and Ruth Rendell .

Orth-Guttmann is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . In 1989 she received the Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Award .

Translations (selection)

• André Aciman : Eight Bright Nights , Zurich 2010
• André Aciman: Call me by your name , Zurich 2008
• Halide Edip Adıvar : The shadow player's daughter , Zurich 2008
• Joan Aiken : Fear and fear , Zurich 1991.
• Chow Ching Lie : The Pearls of the Buddha (Concerto du Fleuve Jaune). Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-24364-9 .
• Roddy Doyle : The snapper , Frankfurt am Main 2001
• Roddy Doyle: Typisch Irish , Munich 2011
• Will Durant : Our Life , Munich 1980
• Louise Erdrich : The Song of Fidelis Waldvogel , Frankfurt am Main 2004
• Louise Erdrich: The sound of the drum , Frankfurt am Main 2007
• Marianne Gilbert Finnegan : That only happened once , Zurich 2007
• Francis Scott Fitzgerald : The Love of the Last Tycoon , Zurich 2006
• Andrew Garve : A Chance for Terry , Munich (among others) 1964, translated under the name Renate Guttmann
• Lesley Glaister : You should honor your father , Zurich 1992
• William Golding : An Egyptian Diary , Munich 1987
• DuBose Heyward : Porgy , Zurich 2001
• Eva Hoffman : The copied woman , Vienna 2004
• Michael Innes : Dangerous Return , Munich 1964, translated under the name Renate Guttmann
• Jerome K. Jerome : Three men on a stroll , Zurich 2005
• Jamaica Kincaid : My Garden (book) , Frankfurt am Main 2005
• James Lasdun : The Hunt for the Unicorn , Munich (inter alia) 2002
• David Lodge : Adamstag , Munich 1987
• David Lodge: Author, Author , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• David Lodge: Bitter Truths , Zurich, 2000
• David Lodge: Hands off , Munich
• David Lodge: In the open , Munich
• David Lodge: Latest Paradies-Nachrichten, Munich / Zurich, 2002
• David Lodge: Change of location , Munich, 2001
• David Lodge: Nice work , Munich
• David Lodge: Scavenger Hunt , Munich
• David Lodge: Summer Stories - Winter Tales , Munich, 2005
• David Lodge: Therapy & Think  : two novels in one volume, Frankfurt am Main 2000
• David Lodge: I beg your pardon? , Munich, 2009
• Alison Lurie : Couples , Zurich 2008
• Sharyn McCrumb : A coffin made of rosewood , Reinbek 1998
• Val McDermid : Blown off , Munich 2001
• My scariest murders , Bern (among others), translated together with Brigitte Walitzek
• Margaret Millar : Banshee the Banshee , Zurich 1987
• Joyce Carol Oates : American Desires , Stuttgart 1993
• Joyce Carol Oates: Das Rendezvous , Stuttgart 1992
• Carol O'Connell : Das Judaskind , Munich 2000
• Ann Packer : Because you belong to me , Munich 2003
• John Otto Reinemann : Torn away ... , Frankfurt am Main 1981
• Ruth Rendell : Asta's diary , Zurich 1994
• Ruth Rendell: From the World , Zurich 2007
• Gerald Seymour : Toadstool , Munich 1977
• Gerald Seymour: The fatal stalemate , Munich 1976
• Rebecca Stott : The Coral Thief , Munich 2011
• Rebecca Stott: And blood should haunt you , Munich 2007
• Rex Stout : The big question mark , Munich (among others) 1965, translated under the name Renate Guttmann
• Rex Stout: When light falls into the dark , Berlin-Schöneberg (among others) 1967, translated under the name Renate Guttmann
• Stephen Tabachnick : TE Lawrence , Munich 1988, translated together with Götz Burghardt
• Andrew Taylor : A Mass for the Dead , Vienna 2002
• Andrew Taylor: The Four Last Things , Vienna 2000
• Glenn Taylor : The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart , Munich 2010
• Elleston Trevor : Brain Trauma , Frankfurt / M. (inter alia) 1980
• Ullstein-Kriminalmagazin , Frankfurt / M., Translated under the name Renate Guttmann
• Edgar Wallace : Die Gang des Schreckens , Bern (among others) 1983
• Cicely V. Wedgwood : The first 5000 years , Munich 1987
• Mary Wesley : A made-to-measure life , Munich (among others) 1991
• Edith Wharton : Das Riff , Zurich 1997