Ursel Allenstein
Ursel Allenstein (* 1978 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary translator .
Life
Ursel Allenstein completed a degree in Scandinavian , English and modern German literature in Frankfurt am Main and Copenhagen , from which she graduated with a master's degree. She then worked for the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house . She has lived in Hamburg as a freelance translator since 2007 . Allenstein mainly translates fiction from Danish, Swedish and Norwegian into German. She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ. She received u. a. In 2007 the Bode grant from the German Translation Fund , in 2011 the Hamburg Award for Translation and in 2013 the award for the Straelener Translator Award from the Kunststiftung NRW . In 2019 she was awarded the Jane Scatcherd Prize - for her previous work, but above all for her congenial rendering of the novel Max, Mischa and the Tet offensive by Johan Harstad .
Translations
- Tove Alsterdal : Deadly Hope. Cologne 2013
- Tove Alsterdal: Deadly silence. Cologne 2014
- Maria Antas: Wipe and away. Berlin 2015
- Martin Bengtsson : free kick into life. Berlin 2012 (translated together with Max Stadler)
- Benni Bødker, Karen Vad Bruun: Defamation. Berlin 2012
- Therese Bohman : The drowned one. Reinbek near Hamburg 2012
- Ina Bruhn : ... there were only three. Stuttgart 2012
- Ina Bruhn: Mirror, mirror on the wall. Stuttgart 2012
- Karen Vad Bruun : Before death closes my eyes. Berlin 2014
- Anders De la Motte : Game. Munich 2011 (translated together with Max Stadler)
- Anders De la Motte: hype. Munich 2013 (translated together with Max Stadler)
- Jonas Eika : After the sun . Munich 2020
- Johan Harstad : Max, Mischa and the Tet Offensive . Hamburg 2019
- Christina Hesselholdt : Companions. Berlin 2018
- Christina Hesselholdt: Vivian. Berlin 2020
- Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt : The women he knew. Reinbek near Hamburg 2012
- Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt: The girl who fell silent. Reinbek near Hamburg 2014
- Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt: The man who wasn't a murderer. Reinbek near Hamburg 2011
- Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt: The dead that nobody misses. Reinbek near Hamburg 2013
- Sara Johnsen : White Man. Hamburg 2013
- Pia Juul : Life after a happy ending. Cologne 2011
- Nuri Kino and Jenny Nordberg : The benefactors. Hamburg 2010
- Kim Leine : The infidelity of the Greenlanders. Hamburg 2011
- Kim Leine: Ewigkeitsfjord. Munich 2014
- Maja Lunde: The story of the bees. Munich 2017
- Maja Lunde: The History of Water. Munich 2018
- Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen : The indiscreet life of Alice Horn. Berlin 2014
- David Meinke : Forgive me for all bad things. Stuttgart 2013 (translated together with Max Stadler)
- David Meinke: ... then the ravens will eat him Stuttgart 2012
- Caroline Ørsum : Sleep, child, sleep ... Stuttgart 2012
- Fredrik T. Olsson : The code. Munich 2014
- Jan-Erik Pettersson : Stieg Larsson. Berlin 2010 (translated together with Katrin Frey and Wibke Kuhn)
- Kjersti A. Skomsvold : The faster I go, the smaller I am. Hamburg 2011
- Kjersti A. Skomsvold: 33rd Hamburg 2015
- Kjersti A. Skomsvold: My thoughts are under a tree and look at the Krone Hamburg 2019
- Sara Stridsberg : Darling River. Frankfurt am Main 2013
- Sara Stridsberg: Dream Factory. Frankfurt am Main 2010
- Sara Stridsberg: The big heart. Munich 2017
- Joakim Zander : The swimmer. Reinbek near Hamburg 2014 (translated together with Nina Hoyer)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursel Allenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short CV Ursel Allenstein
- Allenstein in the translator database of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, VdÜ, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Allenstein, Ursel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |