Wilfried Boehringer

Wilfried Böhringer (* 1945 ; † 1997 ) was a German translator of mostly Spanish-language literature, but also from French.

Life

Wilfried Böhringer lived in Saarbrücken ; In addition to his translation work, he was in charge of a "literary translation working group" at the University of Saarbrücken . Böhringer was killed in an accident in the United States in 1997 . He mainly translated works by Latin American authors from Spanish into German.

Prizes and awards

• 1988 Helmut M. Braem Prize for his translation of the novel "Drei Sadige Tigers" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• 1991 Translation Prize of the Spanish Embassy in Germany for the translation of the novel "Wolfsmond" by Julio Llamazares

Editing

• "Occupied memory" , Bremerhaven 1997

Translations

• Francisco R. Adrados : Language and Meaning , Munich 1977
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante : View of the tropics at dawn , Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Three sad tigers , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante: As in war so also in peace , Frankfurt am Main 1996
• Julio Cortázar : The Autonauts on the Kosmobahn , Frankfurt am Main 1996
• Jesús Díaz : The skin and the mask , Munich [u. a.] 1997
• Jesús Díaz: The initials of the earth , Munich [u. a.] 1990
• Jesús Díaz: The lost words , Munich [u. a.] 1993
• José Lezama Lima : Game of Beheadings , Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Julio Llamazares : The Yellow Rain , Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Julio Llamazares: Wolfsmond , Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Llaqtaq Takiy , Frankfurt / M. 1988 (translated together with Arthur Wagner)
• Antonio Martínez-Menchén : Pepito and the invisible dog , Hamburg 1990
• Mercedes Neuschäfer-Carlón : Secret of the abandoned hut , Stuttgart 1979
• Virgilio Piñera : Small maneuvers , Frankfurt am Main 1990
• Tzvetan Todorov : The Conquest of America. The other's problem. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985

Web links

• Wilfried Boehringer