Wolfgang Schiffer

Wolfgang Schiffer, 2011

Wolfgang Schiffer (born May 5, 1946 in Nettetal-Lobberich , Germany ) is a German writer and translator of Icelandic literature. Until 2011 he was an editor in the radio play of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR) .

Life

Wolfgang Schiffer grew up on the Lower Rhine . From 1967 to 1972 he studied German , philosophy and theater studies at the University of Cologne and graduated with a master's degree . In 1976 he began his career in the WDR, first as a radio play - dramatist , from 1991 until his retirement in May 2011 as editor in leading positions of the radio play and radio features . Schiffer was a member of the Steering Committee of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) from 1995 to 2003 . In 1991 he received the Knight's Cross of the Icelandic Order of Falcons for his services to the Icelandic-German cultural exchange .

Schiffer translates Icelandic literature, is the author of novels, short stories , poems , plays and radio plays and lives in Cologne.
He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

1970s

• The questioning of Otto B., Roman, Claassen-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-546-47965-3
• Sentenced. Christa Palm's Letters in Jail, radio play (together with Charles Dürr), Cologne WDR 1976
• The other one fiddles, the next one eats grass - Gertrud, radio play (together with Charles Dürr), Cologne WDR 1978, printed in Speech disorders, Radius Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-87173-557-4
• Untitled, poems, Verlag Edition P 14, Cologne 1979
• It was difficult to get through this Zuckerberg, documentary theater piece, premiered at the Antwerp studio theater 1979

1980s

• Adrian or kinds of love, radio play, Baden-Baden SWF 1980
• Platform 2 a, radio play, Berlin SFB 1981
• There are defeats that are victories. A reader and material volume on the resistance in fascism, ed. (Together with Prof. Walter Fabian, Johann P. Tammen), die horen vol. 127, Bremerhaven 1982
• The sun stands cold, poems, Claassen-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-546-47972-6
• Kronstadt's report, radio play, Cologne WDR 1983
• Disturbed life, stage play, premiere at Städtische Bühnen Dortmund 1983
• Iceland: when the ice heart beats. Icelandic post-war literature, art and culture, eds. (Together with Franz Gíslason, Sigurður A. Magnusson), die horen vol. 143, Bremerhaven 1986
• Home and speed. Junge Lyrik, Ed., Edition Pestum / Arena Verlag, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-505-09395-5
• The sea knows no silence, novella, Edition Pestum / Arena Verlag, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-505-09748-9
• And the trees burned, contemporary poetry from the FRG (in Icelandic translation), publisher (together with Franz Gíslason), Verlag Mál og menning, Reykjavík / Iceland 1989

1990s

• The fender, youth novel, Arena Verlag, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-401-04317-X
• Suspected flapping of wings, selected poems by Stefán Hörður Grímsson , compiled and translated from Icelandic (together with Franz Gíslason), Kleinheinrich Verlag, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-926608-73-0
• I heard the color blue - poetry from Iceland, ed. (Together with Gregor Laschen), edition die horen, Bremerhaven 1992, ISBN 3-89429-180-X
• The report, prose, edition fundamental, Cologne 1993
• Stories from Germany, short stories and short prose (in Icelandic translation), ed. (Together with Franz Gíslason), Verlag Mál og menning, Reykjavík / Iceland 1994, ISBN 9979-3-0768-4 .
• A swan flies on fire, Selected poems by Snorri Hjartarson , compiled and translated from Icelandic (together with Franz Gíslason), Kleinheinrich Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-930754-11-8
• Does an Icelander live here? Memories by Leifur Muller , translation from the Icelandic (together with Franz Gíslason), edition die horen, Bremerhaven 1997, ISBN 3-89429-844-8

Since 2000

Wolfgang Schiffer with some of his translations from Icelandic, 2011

• Wording Iceland, anthology, ed. And transl. (Together with Sigurður A. Magnússon and Franz Gíslason), edition die horen, Bremerhaven 2000, ISBN 3-89701-570-6 .
• The battle for Troy, portrait of a pub, in: Das Kölner Kneipenbuch, edited by Björn Kuhligk and Tom Schulz, BTV, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8333-0453-8 .
• For aged ships / Iceland's 'Atom Dichter', Ein Lesebuch, Ed. (Together with Eysteinn Þorvaldsson) and co-translators, die horen, Vol. 242, Bremerhaven 2011, ISBN 978-3-86918-111-0 .
• Suspected flapping of wings, expanded new edition with 10 watercolors by Bernd Koberling of selected poems by Stefán Hörður Grímsson , compiled and translated from Icelandic (together with Franz Gíslason and others), Kleinheinrich Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-930754-88-5 .
• The season is coming to an end - A selection from the lyrical oeuvre of Wolfgang Schiffer, with drawings by Jón Thor Gíslason; Read book no.120, Aphaia, Berlin 2014.
• Þorpið - The village, by Jón úr Vör , translated from Icelandic by Sigrún Valbergsdóttir and Wolfgang Schiffer, with drawings by Kjartan Guðjónsson, Queich Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-939207-21-4 .
• At the seaside and elsewhere - Icelandic authors in German translation, poetry and short prose, translated from Icelandic (together with Franz Gíslason, Jón Thor Gíslason and Sigrún Valbergsdóttir), Ed .: Wolfgang Schiffer, Silver Horse Edition, Marklkofen 2015, ISBN 978- 3-937037-53-0 .
• Balance sheet art from the studios of the WDR, 10 CDs and an accompanying volume, publisher, together with Michael Serrer. Literature series of the Kunststiftung NRW, Lilienfeld, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-940357-58-8 .
• For the comfort of those who cannot find themselves in their presence. Poems by Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, from the Icelandic by Jón Thor Gíslason and Wolfgang Schiffer, Elif Verlag, Nettetal 2017, ISBN 978-3-946989-02-8 .
• The survey of Otto B., new edition as an e-book, with current review, Edition Elektrobibliothek, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN Epub: 978-3-95732-303-3, ISBN Mobipocket: 987-3-95732-304- 0.
• Freedom. Poems by Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Jón Thor Gíslason and Wolfgang Schiffer, Elif Verlag, Nettetal 2018, ISBN 978-3-946989-10-3 .
• Poems remember a voice, poems by Sigurður Pálsson, translated from Icelandic by Jón Thor Gíslason and Wolfgang Schiffer, Elif Verlag, Nettetal 2019, ISBN 978-3-946989-16-5 .
• Cinema, lyric anthology. Ed., Together with Dinçer Güçyeter, ELIF Verlag, Nettetal 2019, ISBN 978-3-946989-19-6 .
• Manual of remembering and forgetting. Stories by Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, from the Icelandic by Jón Thor Gíslason and Wolfgang Schiffer, ELIF Verlag, Nettetal 2020, ISBN 978-3-946989-26-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Schiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schiffer's current culture diary