Wolf Harranth

Wolf Harranth (2015)

Wolf Harranth (born August 19, 1941 in Vienna , † August 3, 2021 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian children's book author, translator and media journalist .

Life

Wolf Harranth's father Harry was an actor. When he started working for children's radio in 1946, he took his son with him to the station, and he played his first roles there before he learned to read and write. From 1952 to 1960 he was involved in the production of the series Die Radiofamilie , in which he portrayed the son of the Floriani family from Taubengasse, who was the same age as him.

From 1960 he worked at the publishing house Jungbrunnen, which emerged from the Austrian Kinderfreunde movement in 1923 , where he worked as a lecturer until 1985 and, most recently, as managing director.

In addition, from 1970 Harranth worked for the ORF as a freelance author, translator and employee at the then Austrian international service Radio Austria International . From 1969 onwards he was in charge of the broadcasts for shortwave listeners (initially together with Helmut Hofbauer) . With the program, he accompanied the technical change in radio reception by changing the concept several times. This was also reflected in the names of the programs, which were initially known as Kurzwellepanorama and DX-Telegram and later the names Medienpanorama and (from April 1997 until the program was discontinued in March 2003) Intermedia . Thoughtful reflections on what was happening on the radio, which Harranth processed literarily as a letter to a radio friend , were typical .

Wolf Harranth initiated the not-for-profit Vienna Documentation Archive to research the history of radio communications and electronic media - Internationales Kuratorium QSL Collection (short Documentation Archive Funk or Dokufunk ), in which testimonies to the history of radio and the history of the amateur radio service are collected. Initially it was about collections of QSL cards as evidence of amateur radio and shortwave history . The aim is to keep these collections, often from bequests, from being liquidated and to keep them for documentation purposes. The archive now comprises around six million objects, including 1,500 bequests, making it “the world's largest institution with archives and collections of all kinds on the history of radio communications, with a focus on radio and amateur radio .” The holdings are accessible free of charge and are constantly being updated.

Wolf Harranth lived with his wife in Vienna-Simmering and Klosterneuburg. His call sign as a radio amateur was OE1WHC. He died in early August 2021, two weeks before his 80th birthday.

Awards

• Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art
• Several literary and translation prizes, including: Austrian Children's and Young People's Literature Prize (1982, 1986)
• Translation awards for literary translation (1981, 1984, 1987, 1993)
• Austrian Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature (1996)
• German Youth Literature Prize (1983)
• Austrian State Prize for Translation ('Translatio') (2004)
• Astrid Lindgren Translation Prize (2005).

Fonts (selection)

According to the German National Library, Wolf Harranth has published 27 books and contributed to a further 56 works.

• Vademecum for shortwave listeners and radio enthusiasts . Edited by the Association of Young DXers in Austria (ADXB). Jungbrunnen publishing house , Vienna 1981 ISBN 3-7026-5526-3
• There is a beautiful meadow . Text: Wolf Harranth, Illustrations: Winfried Opgenoorth . 3rd, completely new edition. Jungbrunnen, Vienna 1985 ISBN 3-7026-5575-1
• An elephant with pink ears . Illustr. Barbara Resch. Bilingual, German-serbokroat. Jungbrunnen, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-7026-5660-X
• My grandpa is old and I love him very much . Illustr. Christina Oppermann-Dimow. Otto-Maier-Verlag , Ravensburg 2nd edition 1987 ISBN 3-473-33696-3
• From the treasures of the QSL collection . Radio amateur library. Volume 8. Theuberger, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-910159-07-9

Translations

• Oscar Wilde : The Canterville Ghost. Dressler-Kinder-Klassiker, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-7915-3541-2 .
• Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Dressler-Klassiker, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-7915-3565-X .
• Rudyard Kipling : The Jungle Book. Illustrations by Thilo Krapp . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-71267-5 .

Anthologies

• Danube legends . Breitschopf Verlag, Klosterneuburg 2006 ISBN 3-7004-4212-2
• Alpine legends . Breitschopf, Klosterneuburg 2006 ISBN 3-7004-4211-4
• Legends from the magical world . Breitschopf, Klosterneuburg 2007 ISBN 978-3-7004-4231-8
• Fairy tales from Austria . Breitschopf, Klosterneuburg 2007 ISBN 978-3-7004-4230-1
• Legends from mysterious worlds . Breitschopf, Klosterneuburg 2008 ISBN 978-3-7004-4250-9
• Fairy tales of sunken palaces and castles . Breitschopf, Klosterneuburg 2008 ISBN 978-3-7004-4251-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf Harranth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Wolf Harranth in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Documentation archive Funk
• A visit with Wolf Harranth, OE1WHC, Dokufunk Curator und Dokufunk Part 2: More from the Vienna radio vaults by Jonathan Marks (2010)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Translator legend Wolf Harranth died at the age of 79. In: Der Standard , August 4, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
2. ↑ August 19, 1941 - August 3, 2021 Wolf Harranth has died. Retrieved August 5, 2021 . 
3. ↑ Prof. Wolf Harranth, ORF journalist, writer and translator has died. In: Austrian Journalists Club (ÖJC), August 4, 2021
4. ↑ Funkhausanthologie 9th week 2016 , Literaturhaus Wien
5. ↑ Hendrik Leuker: Interview with Wolf Harranth . In: Radio Courier . No. 12/2005, pp. 22-24, 23f.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf Harranth: Adieu - the last day at ROI . In: A-DX mailing list. June 30, 2003. Retrieved December 15, 2013 (Harranth's own report from his last day at Radio Austria International).
7. ↑ Hendrik Leuker: Interview with Wolf Harranth . In: Radio Courier. No. 12/2005, pp. 22-24, 22f.
8. ↑ Stefan Förster: Wolf Harranth in conversation about "intermedia", new media and the audience ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Radio Journal. No. 6/2001. With additions from No. 4/1993, 3/1997, 4/2003. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
9. ↑ The documentation archive for researching the history of radio communications and electronic media . In: dokufunk.org. 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.