Ulrich Sonnenberg
Ulrich Sonnenberg (born April 20, 1955 in Hanover ) is a German literary translator .
Life
Ulrich Sonnenberg completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller after graduating from high school Andreanum in Hildesheim . He then stayed in Copenhagen for several years , re-founded the Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt , FVA, together with Klaus Schöffling in 1986 and headed the sales department of the Suhrkamp and Insel Verlag from 1993 to 2003 . Since 2004 he has been living as a freelance translator and editor in Frankfurt am Main . Sonnenberg mainly translates fiction from Danish and Norwegian into German . He is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . In 2013 he and Peter Urban-Halle received the Danish Translation Prize.
Works
- Hans Christian Andersen's Copenhagen, a travel and reading book . With photographs by Rainer Groothuis , Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-89561-583-2 .
Editing
- Denmark tells , Frankfurt am Main 1991
- Hans Christian Andersen : The most beautiful fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2000
- Hans Christian Andersen: Christmas and Winter Tales , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2000
- Hans Christian Andersen: Report on a trip to Saxon Switzerland , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2001
- Hans Christian Andersen: Shadows from a trip to the Harz, Saxon Switzerland etc. etc. in the summer of 1831 , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2002
- Hans Christian Andersen: The ugly duckling and other fairy tales , St. Pölten [u. a.] 2005
- Hans Christian Andersen: The emperor's new clothes and other fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2005
- Copenhagen , Hamburg 2011
Translations
- Hans Christian Andersen : Picture book without pictures , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2009
- Hans Christian Andersen: fairy tales, stories, letters , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1999
- Jens Andersen : Hans Christian Andersen , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2005
- Jens Andersen : Astrid Lindgren. Your life , Munich 2015
- Herman Bang : Eccentric Existences , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2007
- Herman Bang: Your Highness , Berlin 2011
- Niels Brunse : The amazing equipment of Mr. Orffyreus , Munich 2007
- Niels Brunse: Der Meermann , Munich 2008
- Tom Buk-Swienty : Hauptmann Dinesen , Hamburg 2014 (translated together with Bernd Kretschmer)
- Tom Buk-Swienty: Slaughterhouse Düppel , Berlin 2011
- Christian Dorph : The German Friend , Frankfurt am Main 2009
- Christian Dorph: The Lebanese Leopard , Berlin 2011
- Jakob Ejersbo : Exil , Munich 2012
- Jakob Ejersbo: Liberty , Munich 2011
- Jakob Ejersbo: Revolution , Munich 2012
- Katrine Engberg: Crocodile Guard, Zurich 2018
- Katrine Engberg: Blutmond, Zurich 2019
- Erika Fatland: Sovietistan, Berlin 2017
- Erika Fatland: The Border , Berlin 2019
- Anna Grue : The good women of Christianssund , Zurich 2013
- Anna Grue: The Judas Kiss , Zurich 2014
- Anna Grue: The Art of Die , Zurich 2014
- Anna Grue: It stays in the family , Zurich 2015
- Anna Grue: The Root of Evil , Zurich 2015
- Anna Grue: The wrong face , Zurich 2016
- Anna Grue: Like father like son. Zurich 2018
- Torben Guldberg : Theses on the existence of love , Frankfurt am Main 2010
- Gaute Heivoll : Before I burn up , Frankfurt am Main 2012
- Hans Herbjørnsrud : The Fountains , Munich 2010
- Søren Jacobsen : The marble pigeon , Frankfurt am Main 1985
- Søren Jacobsen: The radioactive man , Frankfurt am Main 1987
- Asbjørn Jaklin : Deadly Frost , Berlin 2014
- Asbjørn Jaklin : Red Zone , Berlin 2016
- Carsten Jensen : Rasmussen's last trip , Munich 2010
- Carsten Jensen: We drowned , Munich 2008
- Carsten Jensen: The first stone , novel. Knaus, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8135-0741-6 .
- Jens Henrik Jensen : The Coal Man , Munich [u. a.] 2008.
- Johannes V. Jensen : Himmerlandsvolk, Guggolz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945370-12-4 .
- Erling Jepsen : Dreck am Stecken , Munich 2006.
- Erling Jepsen: Terribly happy , Berlin 2010.
- Erling Jepsen: Headless Summer , Berlin 2012.
- Erling Jepsen: The art of crying in a choir , Frankfurt am Main 2008.
- Erling Jepsen: With kind condolences , Berlin 2011
- Christian Jungersen : exception , Munich [u. a.] 2006
- Christian Jungersen: You're disappearing , Munich 2014
- Erling Kagge : Stille, Berlin 2017
- Søren Kierkegaard : Kierkegaard for the stressed , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2000
- Karl Ove Knausgård : Leben , Munich 2014
- Karl Ove Knausgård: The America of the Soul , Munich 2016 (with Paul Berf )
- Karl Ove Knausgård: Fight. Munich 2017 (with Paul Berf)
- Karl Ove Knausgård / Fredrik Ekelund: No home game , Munich 2018
- Peter Øvig Knudsen : The Inner Circle , Berlin 2010
- Monica Kristensen : In some nights , Munich 2013
- Jakob Melander : Blutwind , Munich 2014
- Jakob Melander: Roter Nebel , Munich 2015
- Iben Melbye : The Black Club , Reinbek 1982
- Jørgen Nash : The Galgenvogel , Hamburg 1993
- Jóanes Nielsen: The Memories , Munich 2016
- Dorthe Nors : Handkantenschlag , Hamburg 2014
- Simon Pasternak : Dead zones , Munich 2014
- Peter Poulsen : Freud, Jung and the others , Munich 1983
- Henrik Pontoppidan: The Royal Guest , Münster 2017
- Morten Ramsland : When Bernhard shot a hole in the sky , Cologne 2009
- Morten Ramsland: The Legend of the Golden Egg , Frankfurt 2018
- Morten Ramsland: Dog Heads , Frankfurt am Main 2006
- Morten Ramsland: Sumo Brothers , Frankfurt am Main 2011
- Morten Ramsland: Monsters! , Cologne 2007
- Nils Johan Ringdal : The New World History of Prostitution , Munich 2006
- Knud Romer : Those who blink are afraid of death , Frankfurt am Main 2007
- Aage G. Sivertsen, Magnus Carlsen. The unexpected chess genius, Hamburg 2017 (together with Rainer Vollmar)
- Simon Stranger : Barsakh , Berlin 2011
- Vidar Sundstøl : Traumland , Hamburg 2011
- Dea Trier Mørch : The morning gift , Hamburg 1986
- Maren Uthaug: And so it happened. Munich 2017
- Mich Vraa: The Hope , Hamburg 2017
- Mich Vraa: Now you are free, Hamburg 2019
- Annette Wiborg : Copenhagen , Reinbek 1981 (translated together with Herbertzeichner)
Web links
- Sonnenberg in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ, 2019
- Short biography of Ulrich Sonnenberg on the Schoeffling publisher's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sonnenberg, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |