Dutli, Ralph

Ralph Dutli, born in Schaffhausen/Switzerland in 1954, studied French and Russian Literature in Zurich and Paris. From 1982 to 1994 he lived in Paris, today he lives in Heidelberg/Germany, where he works as a freelance author, lyricist („NOVALIS IM WEINBERG“; Novalis in the vineyard, 2005), essayist („NICHTS ALS WUNDER“; Nothing but miracles, 2007), novelist („SOUTINES LETZTE FAHRT“; Soutine’s Last Journey, 2013) and translator of Ossip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky. Editor of the ten-volume Ossip Mandelstam complete edition and author of the Mandelstam biography „MEINE ZEIT, MEIN TIER“ (My Age, my Beast, 2003).

He has received major prizes and distinctions, including the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize awarded by the German Academy for Language and Literature.

Kronenberger, Ina

Ina Kronenberger was born in Otterberg (Southern Germany) in 1965. She has lived abroad in different countries like France, Israel, Italy and Norway. Her studies in Romanic and Nordic Philology at Mainz and Freiburg University ended with a master degree in 1993. Since then, she has worked as a literary translator from Norwegian and French, introducing writers like Per Petterson, Dag Solstad, Linn Ullmann, Mirjam Kristensen or Hanne Ørstavik respectively Anna Gavalda, Philippe Claudel or Amin Maalouf.

She has participated in several workshops and received many awards for her work. In 2010, she was assigned the “German Award in Youth Literature” for her translation of Stian Hole’s “Garmans Sommer”. In 2012 she was nominated for the IBBY Honour List. Ina Kronenberger now lives in Bremen.

 

Perlet, Gisela

German translator from Danish Gisela Perlet was born in 1942 and died in December 2010. She grew up in the village of Gutenswegen close to Magdeburg and studied German literature and Scandinavian studies at Greifswald University. From 1966 to 1979 she was working as an editor for Hinstorff-Verlag in Rostock. Her first translations appeared at the end of the 1960s. After political differences with authorities about a planned translation of Kierkegaard she was dismissed and continued to work as a freelance translator and editor. Suffering from cancer, Perlet lived the last years of her life in Rostock.

Gisela Perlet's translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard are most renowned.

Gisela Perlet received following awards: 1998 the Danish Dannebrogorden, 2001 the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal cross of merit), 2002 Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for translation, 2004 the Danish Arts Council's translation prize.

Monschein, Kerstin

Born in Eisenstadt, Austria, in 1979. Graduated from Graz University after translation studies for German, Russian and English in 2010.

She studied and worked for several months in Russia and Ireland. Lives and works now in Fürstenfeld and Graz as a translator of novels and technical texts from Russian and English into German.

 

Sauser, Barbara

Born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1974, and graduated in Slavic Studies and musicology, Barbara Sauser worked as editor and press officer for Rotpunktverlag, Zurich.

She now lives in Bellinzona and works since 2009 as a freelance editor and translator from Italian, French, Russian and Polish.

In 2023 she was awarded the Viceversa-prize of the Swiss Schillerstiftung: 

Huppert, Hugo

Hugo Huppert (1902–1982) was an Austrrian poet, translator and writer. Member of the Austrian Communist Party. After his dissertation in political science, he studied sociology in Paris and moved to Moscow in 1928 where he worked as an editor at the Marx-Engels-Institute until 1932. Personal friend and from 1936 onwards German translator of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Imprisoned in 1938, but from 1941 lecturer at the Maxim-Gorki-Institute for World Literature. From summer 1944 onwards Huppert was Ilya Ehrenburg's personal secretary and major in the Red Army. After the War he stayed in Vienna, but was ordered back to the Soviet Union and sent to internal exile in Tbilissi. From 1956 until his death he lived in Vienna.

He translated almost all works by Mayakovsky and even The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli. Huppert was honored with the Austrian title of a professor in 1969 and with different literary prizes of the German Democractic Republic.