Simon Werle

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Simon Werle (born June 13, 1957 in Freisen / Saarland ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

Simon Werle graduated from the Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium in St. Wendel in 1977 . From 1977 to 1983 he studied Romance studies and philosophy at universities in Munich and Paris . Since 1983 he has been translating literary texts from French and, more rarely, from English and ancient Greek . He also publishes his own novels , short stories and plays . Simon Werle lives in Munich .

In 1985 Simon Werle received a literary award from the City of Munich and a prize from the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation , in 1988 the Paul Celan Prize , in 1992 the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt , and in 1994 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres , 2003 the Tukan Prize of the City of Munich, 2017 the Eugen Helmlé Translator Prize and 2020 the Paul Scheerbart Prize .

Works

  • Ground plan of the distance , Munich 1986
  • Proxima Centauri , Munich 1988
  • The conquest of the air , Munich 1991
  • The Weichselzopf , Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • Hillside Avenue , Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Evening rain , Munich 1999
  • The snow of the years , Munich [u. a.] 2003
  • Myths Mutanten , Eight Pieces in an Ancient Context, Frankfurt am Main 2014

Editing

  • Jehuda Amichai : How beautiful are your tents, Jakob , Munich [u. a.] 1988

Translations

  • Gaston Bachelard : Psychoanalysis of Fire , Munich 1985
  • Charles Baudelaire : Les Fleurs du Mal , Reinbek 2017
  • Charles Baudelaire: The Quirk of Paris , Hamburg 2019
  • Hector Berlioz : Les Troyens , Kassel 2003
  • Maurice Bessy : Erich von Stroheim , Munich 1985
  • Pierre Corneille : The Cid , Frankfurt 1994
  • Marcel Duchamp : The Big Box , Munich 1989
  • Marguerite Duras : La musica two , Frankfurt 1989
  • Adolf Hungrywolf : Whose voice I hear in the wind , Aarau 1985
  • Adolf Hungrywolf: The country where it's always summer , Aarau 1984
  • Édouard Jaguer : Surrealistische Photographie , Cologne 1984 (translated together with Rudolf von Bitter)
  • Alfred Jarry : Absolute Love , Munich 1985
  • Alfred Jarry: Leda , Munich 1985
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès :
    • Bitterness. Dull voices , Frankfurt am Main 2003
    • Dull voices . Bad Homburg 1991
    • Escape on horseback to the end of the city , Frankfurt am Main 1996
    • In the loneliness of the cotton fields , Bad Homburg 1986
    • Battle of the Negro and the Dogs , Bad Homburg 1987
    • Prologue and other texts , Frankfurt am Main 1992
    • Return to the desert , Frankfurt am Main 1988
    • Sallinger , Frankfurt am Main 1995 (translated together with Corinna Frey)
  • Michel Leiris :
    • The ribbon on the neck of the Olympia , Frankfurt am Main 1983 (translated together with Rolf Wintermeyer)
    • Words without memory , Frankfurt 1984
  • François Maspero : The Cat's Smile , Bremen 1985
  • Molière :
    • Don Juan or The Stone Guest , Frankfurt am Main 1994
    • The Miser , Frankfurt am Main 1993
    • The misanthropist. The Tartuffe , Frankfurt am Main 1993
    • The men's school , Frankfurt am Main 1995
    • Sganarelle or The Imaginary Offense , Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Michael Ondaatje : handwriting , Munich 2001
  • Thomas Otway : Venice Saved or A Conspiracy Uncovered . Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt 1996
  • Jean Racine
  • Jules Renard : The Maîtresse , Munich 1986
  • Jean Rhys : Odd journey in the dark , Munich 1985
  • Henri-Pierre Roché : Viktor , Munich 1986
  • The creation , Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • Victor Segalen
    • Paul Gauguin in his last environment. The two faces of Arthur Rimbaud , Frankfurt 1982 (translated together with Rudolf von Bitter and Dieter Hornig)
    • The Son of Heaven , Frankfurt 1983
  • William Shakespeare : The history of Troilus and Cressida , Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • Sophocles : Ajax, Antigone. Frankfurt am Main 2013
  • Paul Thévenin : Antonin Artaud , Munich 1986
  • Voltaire : Captain Cap Verde , Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Nicole Ward-Jouve : A man named Zapolski , Frankfurt 1983 (translated together with Evelyn Schels )

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Werle (Abitur 1977) receives translation award Website of the Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium St. Wendel, September 9, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2018
  2. ^ Rowohlt, ISBN 978-3-498-00677-8
  3. ↑ Wintermeyer
personal data
SURNAME Werle, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Freisen , Saarland