Wolfgang Jöhling

Wolfgang Jöhling (* 1944 in Görlitz ) is a Polish translator , publicist , poet and photographer of German origin.

Life

Jöhling spent his childhood and youth in his hometown on the German-Polish border, where he also passed the Abitur . In 1969 he completed his studies at the University of Leipzig as a qualified interpreter and translator for Polish and Russian. In 1967/68 he studied in Poznan for a year .

In 1974 he moved to Poland and settled in Warsaw. In 1977 he received Polish citizenship .

Since 1975 he has been the editor of the German editorial team at the Polish agency Interpress and was already working with the film industry, art and science publishers (Arkady, WAiF, PWN etc.), spoken and musical theater (Stary Teatr Krakow, Warsaw Chamber Opera ) and German-speaking Press together. He always had the German-Polish understanding in mind. He has been a full member of the Polish Association of Language Intermediaries (STP) since it was founded in 1981. He has been working as a freelance translator since 1992.

He published his own poems in literary magazines in both countries, especially in anthologies . He is also a writer of Polish poetry.

After receiving his Polish passport in 1977, he began to travel the world. The strongest impressions left him on the one hand Iceland, Scandinavia north of the Arctic Circle, Mount Etna, Siberia, on the other hand the countries of the Sahel zone, Kurdistan, Yemen, Oman, Iran, the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia, Nepal and Namibia.

The photographic yield of these trips met with the goodwill of the judges of photo competitions. The Warsaw art and film publisher WAiF, the art publisher Arkady as well as photo, home, garden and tourism magazines use his photos, which have won multiple awards.

He also worked in the Warsaw film studio as a German commentator and voice actor , subtitled Polish competition entries for the Berlinale and played a supporting role in Krzysztof Rogulski's Last Round ( Ostatnie okrążenie about the Polish Olympian Janusz Kusociński).

Works

Below is a selection of the publications he has translated from Polish or provided with his own German-language contributions from a total of around one hundred books.

Art and culture

• A. Morawińska: Polish painting from the Gothic to the present day. Warszawa 1984, ISBN 83-221-0248-8
• M. Karpowicz: Baroque in Poland. Warszawa 1991, ISBN 83-213-3499-7
• H. Andrzejewska: Polish painting. Warszawa 1997, ISBN 83-221-0657-2 / ISBN 83-01-12329-X
• M. Kwiatkowski: Pałac Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - The Palace of the President of the Republic of Poland. Warszawa 1998 (on behalf of the President and at his disposal only as a gift), ISBN 83-86351-20-9
• Krzysztof Gierałtowski's photographic art. (Oczyma Krzysztofa Gierałtowskiego) Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-914374-7-7
• Z. Kulik: From Syberia to Cyberia. (Comprehensive encyclopedia on all areas of life in the modern world as an accompanying book to a huge photo collage, exhibited in autumn 2005 at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin and then in other German museums). Berlin 2005. One copy printed

literature

• Jöhling, W. (Ed.): Discrete Passions. Homosexual prose from Poland. (Anthology: Witkacy , Breza, Iwaszkiewicz , Pankowski, Kisielewski, Bratny, Machejek, Mach, Andrzejewski and others), Berlin (West) and others. Frankfurt / M 1988, ISBN 3-922257-56-9
• Translation of various children's books such as My Landscapes - Children's Poems , The Robber Pistulka and other Silesian fairy tales. , or The Wondrous Magic Path.

His own poems have appeared in the following anthologies: Dopowiedzenie świtu (Poznań 1969 i 1974), selection 70 (Berlin 1970), Das Wort Mensch (Halle 1972), selection 72 (Berlin 1972), Don Juan überm Sund (Berlin / Weimar 1975), Słowo i gest (Poznań 1976), Before my eyes, behind seven mountains (Berlin / Weimar 1977), Przybliżenia (Poznań 1978), melancholy. A German Feeling (Trier 1989), German Poems on Poland - Polish Suhrkamp Library (Frankfurt / Main 1994)

history

• Polska-Niemcy. Tysiąc lat sąsiedztwa - Poland-Germany. A thousand years of neighborhood. (Scientific anthology under the patronage of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski). Warszawa 2000, ISBN 83-86351-33-0
• Polska - Niemcy. Dziś i jutro. / Poland - Germany. Today and tomorrow. (Scientific anthology under the patronage of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski ; Vol. 2 of the work from 2000), Warszawa 2003, ISBN 83-86351-44-6
• Translation of the series of local history books from the publishing house Wokół nas: "... wczoraj ... yesterday" about Polish cities with historical photographs
• Görlitz - from the medieval trading town to the border town on the Neisse. Near far, far near. (Scientific anthology on the relations between Görlitz and Poland. Here two own texts, all translations from Poland, inclusion of three additional articles from Poland and processing of some German texts), Görlitz 2000, ISBN 3-932693-58- 2
• In addition, his studies of historical German-Polish bridges have been published

He also translated books from the fields of archeology, law and social sciences as well as PR literature about Poland, such as the official catalog for Expo 2000 in Hanover Poland. For more than 30 years he has been producing an unmanageable number of treatments, scripts, dialogue lists, etc. for films.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Jöhling in the catalog of the German National Library