The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation (german: Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung) is awarded yearly by the
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Homepage of the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize with List of Award-Winners
Established 1958, it was named after the German poet and philologist Johann Heinrich Voß
Johann Heinrich Voss (german: Johann Heinrich Voß, ; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (1781) and ''Iliad'' (1793) into German.
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Not to be confused with the .
Award-winners
* 1958: Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir CBE (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language and w ...
and Willa Muir
Willa Muir aka Agnes Neill Scott born Willa Anderson (13 March 189022 May 1970) was a Scottish novelist, essayist and translator.Beth Dickson, '' British women writers : a critical reference guide'' edited by Janet Todd. New York : Continuum, 1 ...
* 1959: Benno Geiger
* 1960: E. K. Rahsin (Elisabeth „Less“ Kaerrick)
* 1961: Jakob Hegner
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* 1962: Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Rudolf Alexander Schröder (26 January 1878 – 22 August 1962) was a German translator and poet. In 1962 he was awarded the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
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* 1963: Friedhelm Kemp Friedhelm is a name of Germanic origin. It may refer to:
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*Friedhelm Döhl (born 1936), German composer and professor of music
* Friedhelm Eronat (born 1953), Geneva-b ...
* 1964: Michael Hamburger
Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted German-British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and ...
* 1965: Wolfgang Schadewaldt
Wolfgang Schadewaldt (15 March 1900 in Berlin – 10 November 1974 in Tübingen) was a German classical philologist working mostly in the field of Greek philology and a translator. He also was a professor of University of Tübingen and University ...
* 1966: Eva Rechel-Mertens, Philippe Jaccottet
Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.
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After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...
* 1967: Witold Wirpsza, Karl Dedecius
* 1968: Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...
* 1969: Hans Hennecke
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* 1970: Janheinz Jahn
* 1971: Karl August Horst
* 1972: Elmar Tophoven
* 1973: Peter Gan
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(Richard Moering)
* 1974: Peter Urban
* 1975: Curt Meyer-Clason
Curt Meyer-Clason (19 September 1910 – 13 January 2012) was a German writer and translator.
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Meyer-Clason was born in Ludwigsburg in September 1910. After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk in Bremen ...
* 1976: Hanns Grössel
Hanns Grössel (18 April 1932, in Leipzig – 1 August 2012, in Cologne) was a German literary translator and broadcasting journalist.
Biography
He translated from Swedish, Danish, and French. He was also well known from his activities at the We ...
* 1977: Edwin Maria Landau
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* 1978: Übersetzerkollegium der Deutschen Thomas von Aquin
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* 1979: Gerda Scheffel
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and Helmut Scheffel Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth.
From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
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* 1980: Annemarie Schimmel
Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam, especially Sufism. She was a professor at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992.
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* 1981: Wolfgang Kasack
Wolfgang Kasack (russian: Вольфганг Германович Казак, ''Volfgang Germanovich Kazak''; Potsdam, 20 January 1927 – Much, 10 January 2003) was a German Slavic studies scholar and translator.
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* 1982: Heinz von Sauter
* 1983: Rolf-Dietrich Keil
* 1984: Anneliese Botond
* 1985: Elisabeth Schnack
* 1986: Hanno Helbling
* 1987: Rudolf Wittkopf
* 1988: Traugott König
* 1989: Michael Walter
* 1990: Manfred Fuhrmann
Manfred Fuhrmann (23 June 1925 – 12 January 2005) was a professor for classical Latin philology and one of the most eminent German philologists.
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Fuhrmann was born on 23 June 1925 in Hiddesen (near Detmold). He started his studies in Leiden ...
* 1991: Fritz Vogelgsang Fritz Vogelgsang (1 March 1930 in Stuttgart – 22 October 2009 in Chiva de Morella) was a German translator, essayist and editor.
He translated into German the work of various important Spanish-language writers: Rafael Alberti, Ramón del V ...
* 1992: Simon Werle
* 1993: Roswitha Matwin-Buschmann
* 1994: Werner von Koppenfels
* 1995: Rosemarie Tietze
* 1996: Joachim Kalka
* 1997: Hans-Horst Henschen
* 1998:
* 1999: Harry Rowohlt
Harry Rowohlt (27 March 1945 – 15 June 2015) was a German writer and translator. He also played the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße.
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Born Harry Rupp in Hamburg, Rowohlt was the son of publisher ...
* 2000: Armin Eidherr
* 2001: Burkhart Kroeber
* 2002: Gisela Perlet
* 2003: Hans Wolf
* 2004: Michael von Albrecht
Michael von Albrecht (born 22 August 1933 in Stuttgart) is a German classical scholar and translator, as well as a poet writing in Latin.
Life
The son of the composer Georg Albrecht first attended the Music Academy in Stuttgart, where he graduate ...
* 2005: Elisabeth Edl
* 2006: Ralph Dutli
* 2007: Stefan Weidner
* 2008: Verena Reichel
* 2009: Susanne Lange
* 2010: Zsuzsanna Gahse
Zsuzsanna Gahse ( Vajda; born 27 June 1946) is a Hungarian-born German-language writer and translator who lives in Switzerland.
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Gahse is the daughter of Hungarian parents and Hungarian is her mother tongue. Her family fled to t ...
* 2011: Frank Günther
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* 2012: Gabriele Leupold
* 2013: Wolfgang Kubin
Wolfgang Kubin (; born December 17, 1945 in Celle) is a German poet, essayist, sinologist and translator of literary works. He is the former director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Kubin has f ...
* 2014: Sabine Stöhr
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* 2015: Anne Birkenhauer
* 2016: Anne Weber
* 2017: Renate Schmidgall
* 2018: Wolfgang Schlüter
* 2019:
* 2020: Ernest Wichner
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Translation awards
Awards established in 1958
1958 establishments in Germany