Werner Schmitz (translator)
Werner Schmitz (born November 20, 1953 in Cologne ) is a German literary translator.
He translates from English and has translated works by Paul Auster , John le Carré , Don DeLillo , Ernest Hemingway , Michael Ignatieff , Malcolm Lowry , Ian McEwan , Henry Miller , Philip Roth and William Carlos Williams into German. In addition to fiction, he also translated biographies, such as by Herman Melville and Harry Belafonte , and texts on literary history, astronomy and music. He works for various large German publishers , such as Rowohlt , Diogenes , Hanser . The books he translated reached tens of thousands of printed copies in German-language editions . Originally he studied economics and only then started working as a translator. Werner Schmitz lives in Celle .
Schmitz is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.
reception
His more recent translations receive praise over older translations by other translators, including works by Hemingway. His new translation of The Old Man and the Sea was the world discussed which of Portnoy's Complaint is praised by Phillip Roth.
Awards
Schmitz was awarded the Lower Saxony Literature Scholarship for Translators in 2010. In 2011 Schmitz received the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize , an annually awarded translation prize, for "his translations of contemporary American literature, in particular for his translation of Paul Auster's novels".
Translations (selection)
- Martin Amis : area of interest , novel. (2015)
- Paul Auster : Moon Over Manhattan (1990)
- Paul Auster: The Invention of Solitude (1993)
- Paul Auster: From hand to mouth (1998)
- Paul Auster: Night of the Oracle (2004)
- Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Revue (2006)
- Paul Auster: Journeys in the Scriptorium (2007)
- Paul Auster: Man in the Dark (2008)
- Paul Auster: Invisible (2010)
- Paul Auster: Sunset Park (2012)
- Paul Auster :: Winter Journal . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-499-25950-0
- Paul Auster: 4 3 2 1 (2017)
- John le Carré : The Russian House (1989)
- John le Carré: The Secret Companion (1991)
- John le Carré: The Night Manager (1993)
- John le Carré: Our Game (1995)
- John le Carré: The Tailor of Panama (1997)
- John le Carré: The Eternal Gardener (2001)
- Ernest Hemingway : Dangerous Summer (1986)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Garden of Eden (1987)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Truth in the Morning Light (1999)
- Ernest Hemingway: Paris - A Festival for Life (2011)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (2012)
- Ernest Hemingway: Snow on Kilimanjaro (2015)
- Donna Leon : The Golden Egg (2014)
- Ian McEwan : Solar (2010)
- Ian McEwan: Honey (2013)
- Ian McEwan: Child Welfare (2015)
- Morton Rhue : Boot Camp (2006)
- Philip Roth : Sabbaths Theater (1996)
- Philip Roth: American Idyll (1998)
- Philip Roth: My Man, the Communist (1998)
- Philip Roth: Conspiracy Against America (2005)
- Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaints (2006)
- Philip Roth: Everyone (2006)
- Philip Roth: Outrage (2009)
Web links
- Schmitz in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
- The problem with simplicity , interview with Schmitz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 17, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of titles at Random House Verlag
- ^ Translator: Werner Schmitz ( Memento of October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ReLÜ , review magazine .
- ↑ Werner Schmitz: Rowohlt translator in conversation . In: Bookmarks 10, 2014.
- ^ Literature grants 2012
- ↑ Werner Schmitz receives Rowohlt translator award . In: Börsenblatt , June 22, 2011.
- ↑ Paul Auster and his American novel "4 3 2 1" , Der Tagesspiegel from January 28, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |