Sylvia List

Sylvia List (born October 14, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Sylvia List completed a degree in Slavic Studies and Eastern European History . She then worked as a publishing editor. She has been a freelance translator since 1977 . Today she lives in Munich .

Sylvia List translates literary texts from English , Russian , French and Yiddish . From 1989 to 1991 she was the holder of the Hieronymusring awarded by the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ . She passed this challenge on to Andreas Klotsch .

New complete flower language , Munich 1974 (published together with Ilse Billig )
Erich Kästner : The great Erich Kästner book , Munich [among others] 1975
Erich Kästner: Kästner in the snow , Zurich 2009
Erich Kästner: My mother on water and on land , Zurich 2010
Erich Kästner: Tomorrow, children, there won't be anything! , Zurich 2011
Erich Kästner: Between here and there , Zurich 2012
Erich Kästner: Unmasking the Easter Bunny , Zurich 2013

Andrej G. Bitov : Das Puschkinhaus , Darmstadt 1983 (translated together with Natscha Spitz-Wdowin )
Sergej Bolmat : In der Luft , Munich 2003 (translated together with Margret Fieseler )
Joseph Brodsky : Memories of Leningrad , Munich 1987 (translated together with Marianne Frisch )
Joseph Brodsky: From pain and reason , Munich 1996
Joseph Brodsky: Less than man , Leipzig 2002 (translated together with Marianne Frisch)
Fridrich N. Gorenštejn : traveling companions , Berlin 1995
Eva Hoffman : Im Schtetl , Vienna 2000
Jan Kott : Spektakel, Spektakel , Munich 1972
Françoise Mallet-Joris : My house has no walls , Munich 1971
Philip Marsden : The Bronskis House , Vienna 1997
Jacqueline Monsigny : Floris and the young Tsarina , Munich 1973
Isaac Bashevis Singer : A Groom and Two Brides , Munich 2004
Israel Joshua Singer : Josche Kalb , Vienna 1999
Stephen Spender : Der Tempel , Munich [among others] 1991
Tatjana N. Tolstaja : Sitting on golden steps , Lahnstein 1993
Tatjana N. Tolstaja: Sonja , Frankfurt am Main 1991
Tatjana N. Tolstaja: Tryst with a bird , Frankfurt am Main 1989 (translated together with Hilde Angarowa )
Tatjana N. Tolstaja: And a fire fell from the sky , Berlin 1992
Jurij V. Trifonov : Long Farewell , Darmstadt 1976
Jurij V. Trifonov: The overturned house , Frankfurt am Main 1989
Vladimir N.Vojnovič : Incident in the Metropol , Munich 1994

Literature by and about Sylvia List in the catalog of the German National Library
Sylvia List in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, 2019