Europäischer Übersetzerpreis Offenburg is a German literary prize for
translator
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...
s. It was donated in equal parts by the City of
Offenburg
Offenburg (; "open borough" - coat of arms showing open gates; Low Alemmanic: ''Offäburg'') is a city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in south-western Germany. With nearly 60,000 inhabitants (2019), it is the largest city and the administrat ...
and the
Hubert Burda Foundation in 2005 and has been awarded every two years since 2006 for outstanding cultural achievements. The prize money is €15,000.
Award winners
*2006
Renate Schmidgall (Darmstadt) for her translations from Polish
*2008
Anne Weber (Paris) for her translations from French
*2010
Hanns Grössel (Cologne) for his translations from Danish, French and Swedish
*2012
Christina Viragh (Rome) for her translations from Hungarian
*2014
Christian Hansen for his translations from Spanish
*2016
Andreas Ecke (Wuppertal) for his translations from Dutch
*2018
Michael Walter (Munich) for his translations from English
Juries
*2006
Karl Dedecius (jury and laudator)
*2008
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrians, Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has ...
(jury),
Werner Spies (laudator)
*2010
Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel (jury),
Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz (; 17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's b ...
(laudator)
*2012
Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist.
Biography
He was born in Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of László Nádas (originally Nussbaum) and Klára Tauber. After the takeover of the Hung ...
(laudator)
*2014
Paul Ingendaay (jury and laudator)
*2016
Christoph Buchwald (jury and laudator)
*2018
Heinrich Detering (jury und laudator)
References
External links
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Hubert Burda Stiftung
German literary awards
Translation awards
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