Wolfgang Butt

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Wolfgang Butt (* 1937 in Wuppertal ) is a German Scandinavian , publisher and translator .

Life

Wolfgang Butt is the son of a Protestant publisher . Butt completed a degree in Scandinavian Studies at Kiel University in 1967 with a doctorate ; In 1977 he completed his habilitation there. Until 2000 he taught at various German universities. He also ran a publishing house for Scandinavian literature in Mönkeberg from 1987 to 1994 . Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance translator from Swedish , Norwegian , Danish and Icelandic into German . He became particularly well known as a translator of the works of Henning Mankell , Arne Dahl and Per Olov Enquist . Today Wolfgang Butt lives in the French town of Fontanes in the Lot department

In 1996 Butt was awarded the City of Kiel's Culture Prize.

Fonts

  • "To die" and "kill" in the language of the Norse poets , Kiel 1967
  • Mobilization of the ivory tower , Neumünster 1977
  • Stationary traffic , Schacht-Audorf 2013

Editing

  • August Strindberg : Works in chronological order , Frankfurt am Main
    • 5. 1887-1888 , 1984
  • The near north , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1985 (edited together with Bernhard Glienke)
  • August Strindberg : I never write poetry , Frankfurt am Main 2000 (edited together with Renate Bleibtreu )

Translations

  • Kjell Askildsen : A wide, empty landscape , Kiel 1992
  • Bergman on Bergman , Munich [u. a.] 1976
  • Arne Dahl : Bad Blood , Munich [u. a.] 2003
  • Arne Dahl: penance hour , Munich [u. a.] 2013
  • Arne Dahl: dark figure , Munich [u. a.] 2010
  • Arne Dahl: The eleventh guest , Munich [u. a.] 2014
  • Arne Dahl: False Victims , Munich [u. a.] 2004
  • Arne Dahl: Maria and Artur , Munich 2008
  • Arne Dahl: number of victims , Munich [u. a.] 2011
  • Arne Dahl: Rosenrot , Munich [u. a.] 2006
  • Arne Dahl: Deep Pain , Munich [u. a.] 2005
  • Arne Dahl: Totenmesse , Munich 2009
  • Arne Dahl: Ungeschoren , Munich 2007
  • Einar Már Guðmundsson : Temporarily unavailable , Munich 2011 (translated with Angela Schamberger)
  • Lena Einhorn : Human trafficking under the swastika , Stuttgart 2002
  • Peter Englund : Beauty and Terror , Berlin 2011
  • Peter Englund: The Desolation of Germany , Stuttgart 1998
  • Per Olov Enquist : Another Life , Munich 2009
  • Per Olov Enquist: Excerpt of the musicians , Munich [u. a.] 1982
  • Per Olov Enquist: The visit of the personal physician , Munich [u. a.] 2001
  • Per Olov Enquist: The Book of Parables , Munich 2013
  • Per Olov Enquist: The book by Blanche and Marie , Munich [u. a.] 2005
  • Per Olov Enquist: Falling Angel , Munich [u. a.] 1987
  • Per Olov Enquist: Grandfather and the Smugglers , Munich 2011
  • Per Olov Enquist: Grandfather and the Wolves , Munich [u. a.] 2003
  • Per Olov Enquist: Captain Nemo's Library , Munich [u. a.] 1994
  • Per Olov Enquist: Die Kartzeichner , Munich [u. a.] 1997
  • Per Olov Enquist: Lewis Reise , Munich [u. a.] 2003
  • Know Fant : Alfred Nobel , Basel [u. a.] 1995
  • Gabi Gleichmann : The Elixir of Immortality , Munich 2013 (translated together with Kerstin Hartmann)
  • Beate Grimsrud : Sneaking past an ax , Cologne 2006 (translated together with Julia Gschwilm)
  • Ragnar Hovland : Dr. Munk's legacy , Munich 2002
  • Ragnar Hovland: The sky is empty , Hamburg 1999
  • Ragnar Hovland: Sidings , Münster 1996
  • Ragnar Hovland: Paradise , Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • Ragnar Hovland: Floating over the waters , Munich 2001
  • Zlatan Ibrahimović : I'm Zlatan Ibrahimović , Munich 2013
  • Edvard Koinberg : Herbarium amoris , Cologne 2009 (translated together with Nils Köster)
  • Henning Mankell : The Fire Wall , Vienna 2001
  • Henning Mankell: Der Chinese , Vienna 2008
  • Henning Mankell: The wrong track , Vienna 1999
  • Henning Mankell: The enemy in the shadow , Vienna 2010
  • Henning Mankell: The fifth woman , Vienna 1998
  • Henning Mankell: Kennedys Hirn , Vienna 2006
  • Henning Mankell: Midsummer Murder , Vienna 2000
  • Henning Mankell: Murder in Autumn , Vienna 2013
  • Henning Mankell: The Pyramid , Munich 2004
  • Henning Mankell: The Return of the Dance Teacher , Vienna 2002
  • Henning Mankell: Before the Frost , Vienna 2003
  • Henning Mankell: Wallander's first case and other stories , Vienna 2002
  • Henry Parland : (e.g. write like right now) , Stuttgart 1984
  • Niklas Rådström : Angels under Shadows , Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • Kirsten Sørrig : Big sister, little brother , Bern [u. a.] 1991 (translated together with Kerstin Hartmann)
  • Henrik Stangerup : Brother Jacob or The Journey to Paradise , Munich 1995
  • Henrik Stangerup: It's black to die in Dieppe , Munich 1998
  • Henrik Stangerup: The way to Lagoa Santa , Mönkeberg 1988
  • Po Tildholm : This is how the Swedes celebrate Stockholm 2009
  • Thorgil's saga ok Hafliða , Leverkusen 1990
  • Alexander Weiss : Report from the clinic and other fragments , Frankfurt am Main 1978 (translated together with Lutz Fischer)

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personal data
SURNAME Butt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Scandinavian artist, publisher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal