Susanne Lange

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Susanne Lange (born July 5, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German philologist and literary translator as well as a reviewer for publishers in the field of Spanish-language literature.

life and work

Susanne Lange studied comparative literature , German literature and theater studies . In 1991 she received her doctorate from the University of Munich . She later taught literature and translation at the University of Tübingen and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá , Colombia. Since 1992 she has worked as a freelance translator of literary texts into German ; she translates mainly from Spanish and sometimes from English . Sometimes she writes additional forewords , text explanations or afterwords and sometimes she also acts as editor and takes over the selection of texts, stories or poems, etc. In addition, she works as a reviewer in the field of Spanish-language literature and advises book publishers .

She has translated, among others, Lorca , Rulfo , Cervantes and Luis Cernuda from Spanish.

Lange has already received several awards for her translations. Among other things, she received the translation prize of the Spanish Embassy in Germany in 2005 for the transmission of reality and desires from Luis Cernuda, whereby the jury honored her for her “masterful skill in translating a lyrical text of high difficulty” and the “excellent [n] philological [n] value of the translation ”. In 2009 she was awarded the Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry for her translations from Spanish, in particular for her new translation of Don Quixote from the Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.

For the 2010/2011 winter semester, she took on the August Wilhelm von Schlegel visiting professorship for poetics at the Free University of Berlin at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature.

Long lives and works in Munich and Sabadell near Barcelona .

Awards

Publications

  • The reflected reality. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-631-44823-6 (dissertation).
Translations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nominations 2009> Translation> Susanne Lange , report on the Leipzig Book Fair website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de
  2. ↑ a b Johann Heinrich Voß Prize. Award for Susanne Lange and Nicholas Boyle. Press release of the German Academy for Language and Poetry of March 9, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutscheakademie.de
  3. ↑ cf. Weblink Portrait - Susanne Lange ; therein report: Translation Awards of the Embassy of Spain 2005 ; on the website of the Suhrkamp Verlag.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin