Richard Hoffmann (translator)

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Richard Hoffmann (born May 15, 1892 in Vienna ; † August 10, 1961 there ) was an Austrian literary translator , writer and culture editor.

Hoffmann completed his law studies at the University of Vienna with a doctorate after his retirement as first lieutenant in the reserve in 1919 . He then worked in the diplomatic service until 1927 and then worked as a freelance writer and translator. As a translator, he has worked almost exclusively for the Paul Zsolnay Verlag in Vienna since 1924 and has been the firm's regular translator since the publishing house was founded. He mainly translated English, but initially also to a considerable extent Russian literature and occasionally Italian, French, Latin and Spanish works, including authors such as AJ Cronin , Pearl S. Buck , Valentin Katajew , Leonid Leonow , Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky .

From 1945 he was editor of New Austria and freelance collaborator and theater critic of the Österreichische Zeitung , from 1946 also a member of the editorial team. In 1955 he moved to the editorial staff of the Soviet Union today .

Translations

  • Maurice Baring: The Enchanted. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1924.
  • Anton Chekhov : The tragedy on the hunt. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig 1925.
  • Anton Chekhov: The black monk. Novellas. Zsolnay, Berlin 1926.
  • Anton Chekhov: Anyuta. Novellas. Zsolnay, Berlin 1928.
  • Valentin Kataev: The defraudants. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin 1928.
  • Theodore Dreiser : Soviet Russia. Zsolnay, Berlin 1929.
  • Joan Lowell : Miss Lowell as a sailor among sailors. The novel of a youth on the high seas. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1929.
  • Ahmed Abdullah, Faith Baldwin: Broadway Sensation. Novel from the New York theater world. Zsolnay, Berlin 1930.
  • Leonid M. Leonov: structure. Novel from Soviet Russia. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1930.
  • John Cowper Powys : Wolf Solent. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin 1930.
  • Archibald J. Cronin : The Tyrant. A father's novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1932.
  • Iliá Ilf et al. : A millionaire in Soviet Russia. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin 1932.
  • Pearl S. Buck : Sons. Novel. Zsolnay, Hamburg Vienna 1933.
  • Archibald Joseph Cronin: Three loves. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1933.
  • Pearl S. Buck : East Wind - West Wind . Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1934.
  • Pearl S. Buck: The mother . Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig 1934.
  • Archibald Joseph Cronin: The stars look down. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1935.
  • Joan Lowell: I spit against the wind. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1935.
  • Paola Masino : Games on the Edge. A children's novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1935.
  • Juliet Bredon: A Hundred Altars. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1936.
  • Pearl S. Buck: The Missionary's Wife. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1936.
  • Allen Roy Evans : The Train of the Reindeer. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1936.
  • Carl Fallas : The wooden pillow. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1936.
  • Carl Crow: Four hundred million customers. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1937.
  • Daniel Henderson: Maria Tudor. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig 1937.
  • John Hodgdon Bradley: Autobiography of the Earth. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1938.
  • Laurence Walter Meynell: The bus goes to the village. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin 1938.
  • Archibald J. Cronin: The Citadel. Novel. Zsolnay, Berlin 1939.
  • Tommaso Gallarati Scotti: Dante. Zsolnay, Berlin 1939.
  • Kathleen Strange: On a farm in the west. The way of a brave woman. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1939.
  • Nino Bussoli: Hunting fur animals in the Arctic Ocean. An adventure book. Zsolnay, Berlin 1940.
  • Manuel Gálvez : López. A novel from the history of Paraguay. Zsolnay, Berlin, Vienna 1946.
  • Archibald J. Cronin: The house of the swans. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1948.
  • Archibald J. Cronin: The Spanish gardener. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1951.

literature

  • Murray G. Hall: The Paul Zsolnay Verlag. From the foundation to the return from exile. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, pp. 150, 252 and ö.
  • Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner: Handbook of the estates and collections of Austrian authors . 2nd edition, Böhlau, Vienna 1995, p. 151.
  • Gabriele Melischek, Josef Seethaler (Ed.): The Viennese daily newspapers. A documentation. Vol. 5: 1945-1955 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 21.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1961
Place of death Vienna