David Dollenmayer
David B. Dollenmayer (born 1945) is an American academic professor of German[1] and literary translator known for his translations of contemporary German classics into English. He taught German in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he serves as an emeritus professor.
Early life[edit]
Dollenmayer received his BA and PhD from Princeton University. After graduation, he became a Fulbright fellow at the University of Munich, Germany. Dollenmayer wrote The Berlin Novels Of Alfred Döblin in Berkeley, California and was published by the University of California Press in 1988.[2] He also co-authored Custom Neue Horizonte: Introductory German along Thomas Hansen in 2013. He has translated works from German to English too.
Works[edit]
Translations[edit]
- Rolf Bauerdick - The Madonna on the Moon
- Bertolt Brecht
- Elias Canetti and Veza Canetti - Dearest Georg: Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
- Peter Stephan Jungk - Crossing the Hudson
- Michael Kleeberg - The King of Corsica
- Stefan Klein - Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
- Marie-Luise Knott - Unlearning with Hannah Arendt
- Michael Köhlmeier - Idyll with drowning dog
- Perikles Monioudis
- Anna Mitgutsch - House of Childhood
- Mietek Pemper - The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List
- Ulrich Pfisterer (art historian) - The Sistine Chapel – Paradise in Rome
- Moses Rosenkranz - Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment
- Rudiger Safranski - Goethe: Life as a Work of Art[3]
- Willibald Sauerländer - The Catholic Rubens: Saints and Martyrs
- Hansjörg Schertenleib - A Happy Man
- Daniel Schreiber - Susan Sontag: A Biography
- Gregor Von Rezzori - Abel And Cain
- Martin Walser - A Man in Love, A Gushing Fountain
Legacy[edit]
Dollenmayer won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2008, for his translation of Moses Rosenkranz's Childhood.
References[edit]
- ^ "Interview with David Dollenmayer". goethe.de. Goethe Institut. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ^ Bedwell, Carol (1989). "Review: The Berlin Novels of Alfred Döblin". Modern Fiction Studies. 35 (4). Johns Hopkins University Press: 829–833.
- ^ "David Dollenmayer's Translation Reviewed by Angermion". wpi.edu. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. February 26, 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2024.