Ewald Osers (13 May 1917 – 11 October 2011) was a Czech
translator
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and
poet
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born in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
,
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
Jan Skácel
Jan Skácel (7 February 1922 in Vnorovy – 7 November 1989 in Brno) was a Czech poet of Moravian origin, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech.
He often juxtaposed the fear stoked by the communist regime in C ...
. He also translated several German-language authors such as
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizati ...
Works
* ''Arrive Where We Started'' (poems), 1995
*''Snows of Yesteryear'' (memoir), 2007
Translations
* ''Modern Czech Poetry: An Anthology'', 1945 (with J.K. Montgomery)
*
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and early Modernism (music), modern eras, he has been descr ...
, ''A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Early life
Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-cla ...
'', 1961 (with H. Hammelmann)
*
Paul Carell
Paul Carell was the post-war pen name of Paul Karl Schmidt (2 November 1911 – 20 June 1997) who was a writer and German propagandist. During the Nazi era, Schmidt served as the chief press spokesman for Joachim von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry. ...
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact ...
, ''With the Volume Turned Down, and Other Poems'', 1973
* ''Contemporary German Poetry'', 1976
* Rose Ausländer, ''Selected Poems'', 1977
* Rudolf Langer, ''Wounded No Doubt: Selected Poems'', 1979
* Nahapet Kuchak, ''A Hundred and One Hayrens'', 1979
* Jaroslav Seifert, ''The Plague Column'', 1979
* Walter Helmut Fritz, ''Without Remission: Selected Poems'', 1981
* Sebastian Haffner, ''The Meaning of Hitler'', 1983
* Jaroslav Seifert, ''An Umbrella from Piccadilly'', 1983
* Miroslav Holub, ''On the Contrary, and Other Poems'', 1984
* Nikola Vaptsarov, ''Nineteen Poems'', 1984
* ''Voices from across the Water: Translations from Twelve Languages'', 1985
*
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal ...
, ''War with the Newts'', 1985, new trans., 1990
* Lyubomir Levchev, ''Stolen Fire: Selected Poems'', 1986
* ''The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert'', 1986 (with G. Gibian)
* Miroslav Holub, ''The Fly'', 1987 (with J. Milner and G. Theiner)
* Jaroslav Cejka, Michael Cernik, and Karel Sys, ''New Czech Poetry'', 1988
* Vladimír Janovic, ''The House of the Tragic Poet'', 1988
* Mateja Matevski, ''Footprints of the Wind: Selected Poems'', 1988
*
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizati ...
, ''Wittgenstein's Nephew'', 1986
*Thomas Bernhard, ''Cutting Timber'', 1988
*Thomas Bernhard, ''Old Masters'', 1989
*Thomas Bernhard, ''The Cheap-Eaters'', 1990
* Miroslav Holub, ''Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations'', 1990 (with I. Milner, J. Milner, and Theiner)
*
Rüdiger Safranski
Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author.
Life
From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University ...
, ''Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy'', 1990
* Thomas Bernhard, ''Yes'', 1991
*
Ivan Klíma
Ivan Klíma (born 14 September 1931 in Prague, as Ivan Kauders) is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honors.Michael Krüger, ''The End of the Novel'', 1992
* Michael Krüger, ''The Man in the Ice'', 1994
*
Heinz Piontek
Heinz Piontek (15 November 1925 – 26 October 2003) was a German writer. He was born in Upper Silesia. In 1976, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung for his literary oeuvre with the words "ei ...
Albrecht Fölsing
Albrecht Fölsing (1940 in Bad Salzungen – 8 April 2018 in Hamburg) was a trained physicist turned into a scientific journalist. Having studied physics in Berlin, Philadelphia, and Hamburg, he worked as an academic research assistant for the Germ ...
, ''Albert Einstein: A Biography'', 1997
* Rüdiger Safranski, ''Martin Heidegger: A Master from Germany'', 1997
*
Jan Skácel
Jan Skácel (7 February 1922 in Vnorovy – 7 November 1989 in Brno) was a Czech poet of Moravian origin, widely acclaimed as one of the best poets who had been writing in Czech.
He often juxtaposed the fear stoked by the communist regime in C ...
, ''Banned Man: Selected Poems'', 2001
* Milan Rúfus, ''And That's the Truth! Poems in English & Slovak'', 2005
Awards
* 1971:
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation award given by the Society of Authors in London. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000.
, for ''Scorched Earth'' by
Paul Carell
Paul Carell was the post-war pen name of Paul Karl Schmidt (2 November 1911 – 20 June 1997) who was a writer and German propagandist. During the Nazi era, Schmidt served as the chief press spokesman for Joachim von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry. ...