Susanna Rademacher
Susanna Rademacher (also: Susanna Brenner , Susanna Brenner-Rademacher ; * November 21, 1899 in Berlin-Schöneberg as Susanna Else Jenny Gaspary ; † September 22, 1980 in Munich ) was a German literary translator .
Life
Susanna Rademacher was born as Susanna Else Jenny Gaspary on November 21, 1899 at Neue Winterfeldtstrasse 48 (today Winterfeldtstrasse 49, Berlin-Schöneberg). Her parents were the writer Alfred Joseph Gaspary and his wife Jenny Sophie Adele, b. Jacoby-Scherbeing.
She was the wife of the writer Hans Georg Brenner . Since the early 1950s she has translated numerous narrative works by British and American authors from English into German . In 1954, Rademacher was one of the founding members of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . In 1965 she received first prize in the “Competition of Translators” advertised by the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 1979 to 1981 she was the first to wear the Hieronymus Ring . This challenge award from her association was donated on the occasion of her 80th birthday. She passed it on to Kai Molvig .
Translations
- James Baldwin : They called him Malcolm X , Reinbek 1974
- John Barth : Ambrose im Juxhaus , Reinbek 1973
- John Barth: The tobacco dealer , Reinbek 1970
- Louis Biancolli : Great Conversations from Intellectual History and World Politics , Hamburg 1958 (translated together with Hans Georg Brenner)
- John Stewart Carter : Five Fathers Deep , Reinbek 1966
- Richard Church : The Dangerous Years , Bern 1957
- John Collier : Blossoms of the Night , Reinbek 1970
- John Collier: Collected Stories , Reinbek 1977
- John Collier: Midnight Blue Stories , Reinbek 1967
- Israel Eliraz : Round trip , Reinbek 1975
- Sumner Locke Elliott : The Predetermined Day , Reinbek 1978
- William Faulkner : Soldiers' Wages , Hamburg 1958
- Pamela Frankau : "Only this: Your heart for my Lord" , Hamburg 1951 (translated together with Hans Georg Brenner)
- Donald Freed : Rosenberg affair , Reinbek 1969
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth : Children become people , Berlin 1952
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth: Cheaper by the dozen , Berlin 1950
- Graham Greene : The Honorary Consul , Vienna 1973 (translated together with Hans W. Polak)
- Robert Greenwood : The happy days of Dinglesea , Berlin 1962
- Davis Grubb : The Night of the Hunter , Berlin 1954
- Georgette Heyer : Murder without a murderer , Reinbek 1975
- Georgette Heyer: The dead man in the pillory , Reinbek 1976
- Christopher Isherwood : Farewell, Berlin , Hamburg 1949
- Rona Jaffe : The dangerous years , Reinbek 1978
- Ahmad Kamal : Three boys, a dog's heart and a soul , Berlin 1952
- David H. Lawrence : John Thomas and Lady Jane , Zurich 1975
- Malcolm Lowry : Hear us, O Lord, who dwell in heaven , Reinbek 1965
- Malcolm Lowry: The last address and stories from the estate , Reinbek 1986 (translated together with Joachim Sartorius )
- Malcolm Lowry: October ferry to Gabriola , Reinbek 1982
- Malcolm Lowry: Unter dem Vulkan , Reinbek 1963
- John Masters : Coromandel , Berlin 1956
- John Masters: Bhowani Junction , Berlin 1955
- Gavin Maxwell : The ten agony of death , Reinbek 1961
- Horace McCoy : scalpel , Berlin 1953
- Carson McCullers : The heart is a lonely hunter , Stuttgart 1952
- Toni Morrison : Very blue eyes , Reinbek 1979
- Vladimir Nabokov : The Test of Courage , Reinbek 1977
- George Orwell : Days in Burma , Zurich 1982
- Katherine Anne Porter : The Ship of Fools , Reinbek 1963
- William Sansom : The Face at the Window , Reinbek 1964 (together with Hans-Heinrich Wellmann)
- Anya Seton : The Turquoise , Stuttgart 1952
- Isaac Bashevis Singer : The Wizard of Lublin , Reinbek 1967
- Dorothy E. Stevenson : Stich ins Wespennest , Berlin 1952
- Edmund Wilson : Memories of Hekates Land , Reinbek 1965
- Thomas Wolfe : Letters , Reinbek 1961
- Thomas Wolfe: There is no going back , Hamburg 1950
- Thomas Wolfe: Geweb und Fels , Hamburg 1953
- Thomas Wolfe: Behind those mountains , Hamburg 1956
- Thomas Wolfe: My Uncle Bascom , Reinbek 1962 (together with Hans Schiebelhuth )
- Thomas Wolfe: Thomas Wolfe , Reinbek 1961
- Thomas Wolfe: Welcome to Altamont! Herrenhaus , Reinbek 1962 (together with Peter Sandberg)
- Su-ling Wong : daughter of Confucius , Hamburg 1954
literature
- Josef Winiger : Susanna Brenner-Rademacher 1899 - 1980. Founding member and "First Lady" of the VdÜ, in Sovereign Bridge Builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators VdÜ . Special issue language in the technical age , SpritZ. On behalf of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works - Federal Department of Translators of the VS in ver.di, Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Böhlau, Cologne 2014 ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN 0038-8475 pp. 58–60 (with group photo) full text
Web links
- Literature by and about Susanna Rademacher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Susanna Rademacher , first wearer of the Hieronymus Ring, on the VdÜ website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanna Rademacher in: Translation Studies in Wendezeiten: selected articles between 1989 and 2007 , by Mary Snell-Hornby , Stauffenburg Verlag, 2008, p. 85
- ^ Die Zeit , April 9, 1965
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rademacher, Susanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brenner, Susanna; Brenner-Rademacher, Susanna (full name); Gaspary, Susanna Else Jenny (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1980 |
| Place of death | Munich |