Walburg Wohlleben

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Walburg Wohlleben (also: Walburg Wohlleben-Behre , born June 25, 1945 in Schönwald / Upper Franconia ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Walburg Wohlleben comes from a refugee family who settled in Hof after 1945 . From 1952 Walburg Wohlleben grew up with a Danish foster family in North Jutland , where she learned the Danish language . After graduating , she studied Scandinavian studies at the universities in Bonn and Copenhagen and published her first literary translations . She later trained as a teacher and social worker . Together with her husband she ran a bookstore in Bad Münstereifel for 15 years . Wohlleben has been working as a freelance translator since the death of her husband . She translates novels , books for young people and non-fiction from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into German .

Walburg Wohlleben is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works . She lives in Bad Münstereifel.

Translations

  • Marianne Fredriksson : Abel's brother , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Marianne Fredriksson: Eva , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Marianne Fredriksson: Marcus and Eneides , Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • Marianne Fredriksson: Norea's story , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Marianne Glomnes : Yesterday I was still talking to his father , Ravensburg 1979
  • Grete Janus Hertz : This is what it looks like in the doll's house , Reinbek 1977
  • Kristian Ditlev Jensen : I'll say it , Stuttgart 2004
  • Göran Kropp : Alone on Everest , Munich 1998
  • Juliane Preisler : Glas , Munich 2001
  • Klaus Rifbjerg : Nansen and Johansen , Hamburg 2005

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SURNAME Wohlleben, Walburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlleben-Behre, Walburg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönwald , Upper Franconia