Sabine Baumann

Sabine Baumann (born October 27, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German publishing editor and literary translator .

Life

Sabine Baumann studied English , American and Slavic studies at universities in Frankfurt am Main , Bloomington and New York . In 1998 she received her doctorate from the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov's translation work . She then worked as an editor for various German publishers. She also gave lectures on English and Eastern European literature at the University of Frankfurt. Since 2009 she has been working as an editor at Schöffling-Verlag in Frankfurt .

In addition to her work as a lecturer, Sabine Baumann translates from English and Russian into German . For her translations of Puškin's epic Eugen Onegin and Vladimir Nabokov's commentary on this work, she received the 2010 Translation Prize from the Kunststiftung NRW .

She is also a member of the PEN Center Germany and of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, for which she has been editor-in-chief of the trade journal Translate since 2008 .

Baumann has been chairwoman of the Frankfurt Reads a Book Association since August 2017 .

Vladimir Nabokov: House of Remembrance. Gnosis and Memoria in Commentary and Autobiographical Texts. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-86109-148-8 .

Fritz Senn : More about Joyce. Side lights . Essays, ed. ume afterword by Sabine Baumann. Schöffling, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-333-3 .

Orlando Figes : Natasha's Dance . Translated together with Bernd Rullkötter. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8270-0487-X .
Anna Freud : Letters to Eva Rosenfeld . Edited by Peter Heller. Stroemfeld, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-86109-118-6 .
Simon Montefiore : Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin . Translated together with Bernd Rullkötter. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-050613-9 .
Vladimir Nabokov : Collected Works .

15.1. Dramas . Translated together with Rosemarie Tietze . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 3-498-04653-5 .

Alexander Pushkin : Eugene Onegin . 2 vols. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86600-018-6 .

Eugene Onegin . A verse novel. Among employees by Christiane Körner. Preface, introduction by Vladimir Nabokov. Translated from S. Baumann
Vladimir Nabokov: Commentary on "Eugene Onegin". Translated from S. Baumann

personal data
SURNAME	Baumann, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German editor and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main