Elisabeth Borchers

Elisabeth Borchers ( born February 27, 1926 in Homberg, Niederrhein, † September 25, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer and literary translator.

Life

Elisabeth Borchers grew up in Homberg and during the war lived with her grandparents in the Alsatian Niederbronn. Later, the family fled to Weißenau in Upper Swabia. From 1945 to 1954 Borchers worked as an interpreter at the French occupying power. Their marriage in 1946 was divorced in 1957. From 1958 to 1960 she lived in the United States. In 1959 she was an employee of Inge Aicher -Scholl at the Ulm School of Design. From 1960 to 1971 worked as an editor Borchers Luchterhand -Verlag. In 1971 she moved to the same position for Suhrkamp and Insel Verlag, in which she remained until 1998.

She wrote volumes of poetry and numerous children's books. She was also known as the editor of a variety of literary anthologies of texts for children and adults. Translated from the French, including the novel 1880 by Pierre Jean Jouve Paulina.

Borchers was a member of the PEN center of Germany, the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and the Else- Lasker-Schüler - society.

Awards

Works

  • Poems, Neuwied am Rhein [u a ] 1961
  • Be Bi Bo Ba Bu - the hedgehog kids, Hamburg [u a ] 1962 ( together with Dietlind sheet )
  • The old car, Gütersloh, 1965 ( together with Werner Maurer )
  • Night of ice. Scenes and games, Neuwied [u a ] 1965
  • And on top of which floats the sun, Munich 1965 ( together with Dietlind sheet )
  • Travel with Samuel, Recklinghausen 1967
  • The table at which we sit. Poems, with illustrations by Günter Bruno Fuchs, Neuwied [u a ] 1967
  • The red house in a small town, Munich 1969
  • A happy family and other prose, Neuwied [u a ] 1970
  • Mr. Elf and his eleven daughters, Munich 1971 ( together with Ursel Maiorana )
  • Shut up, Mr. Franz, the racer, says Munich 1971 ( together with Renate Sellig )
  • As Zaddelpaddel came, Frankfurt am Main, 1972 ( together with Erna de Vries )
  • The feast of the great Rüpüskül or help keep the thief!, Frankfurt am Main, 1972 ( together with Jacques -Henri Lartigue )
  • Beautiful snow, Munich 1972 ( together with Anna Robeck )
  • The Tale of magnificent falcon and other Russian fairy tales, Frankfurt am Main, 1974 ( together with Ivan Bilibin )
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful and other Russian fairy tales, Frankfurt am Main, 1974 ( together with Ivan Bilibin )
  • The picture book with verses, Frankfurt am Main 1975 ( along with Nicola Bayley )
  • Today I wish for a hippopotamus, Frankfurt am Main, 1975 ( together with Wilhelm vents )
  • A Russian Legend, Frankfurt am Main, 1975 ( together with Ivan Bilibin )
  • Poems selected by Jürgen Becker, Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Letters to Sarah, Frankfurt am Main 1977 ( together with Wilhelm vents )
  • The drawing lesson, Frankfurt am Main 1977 ( together with Wilhelm vents )
  • Lectori salutem, Mainz 1978
  • Paul and Sarah When two or wish something, Frankfurt am Main, 1979 ( together with Wilhelm vents )
  • The birthday book for children, Frankfurt am Main, 1982 ( together with László Varvasovszky )
  • The king of the animals and his friends ( with illustrations by Louise Brierley ). Island Paperback, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-458-32322-8.
  • A Christmas Dream, Munich 1984 ( together with Friedrich Hechelmann )
  • Whoever lives. Poems, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • From the grammar of the day. Poems, Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • What is the answer. Poems, Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Everyone is talking, and silent calls. Collected Poems, selected and with an afterword by Arnold Stadler, Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • A story on earth. Poems, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Not to be repaid, Frankfurt am Main 2002 (together with Jörg Kitta gowns)
  • Worlds of light. Darkened rooms - Frankfurt lectures on poetics, Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Time. Time - poems, Frankfurt am Main 2006

Editorship

  • The cornflower and the cities Stierstadt im Taunus 1962 ( together with Peter Hamm )
  • For Eduard Reifferscheid, Berlin [u a ] 1969
  • The collapse of a lumberjack in a peaceful family, Gütersloh 1971
  • The large Lalula and other poems and stories from morning to evening for children, Munich 1971
  • A fish with names Fasch and other poems and stories of humans and other eople, Munich 1972
  • Fairytale German poet, Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • And now and then a white elephant, Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • The Christmas book, Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • The Book of Love, Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • Hans Carl Artmann: Poems about love and about the viciousness, Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • The Island Book of Dreams, Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • The very useful fea- book for birthdays, Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • The Christmas book for children, Frankfurt am Main 1975
  • Dear Mother, Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Günter Eich: The February 29, Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • The Advent Book, Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • German fairy tales, Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • The island book for children, Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • Spomenar, Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • In the century of the woman, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Reading between the years, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Reading between the years, Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Luchterhands loose-leaf poetry, Darmstadt [u a ] Vol 1, 1966-1968, 1983
  • Vol 2 1968-1970, 1983

Translations

  • Richard Adams: The Voyage of the two tigers, Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Janine Aeply: Rendez -vous, Neuwied am Rhein 1961
  • Maria Enrica Agostinelli: one large, the other small, Munich 1970
  • Maria Enrica Agostinelli: I know something you do not know, Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • Nicola Bayley: Seventy-seven animals and an ox, Frankfurt am Main 1977 ( translated with Mary Dessauer )
  • Albert Cullum: The geranium on the window sill dies and you just carry on, Teacher, Frankfurt am Main in 1972!
  • Marguerite Duras: Oh, Ernesto, Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Kate Greenaway: Butter flower garden, Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • Kate Greenaway: Mother Goose or The Old Ammenreime, Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • Pierre Jean Jouve: Paulina 1880, Neuwied [u a ] 1964
  • Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky: father buy me a horse, Munich 1972
  • Jacques Prévert: Christmas guests, Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Marcel Proust: The Indifferent, Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin: The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his son, the famous and powerful prince Gwidon and from the beautiful swan princess, Frankfurt am Main 1973
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