Philip Boehm

Philip Boehm (* 1958 in Texas) is an American theater director and literary translator.

Life

Philip Boehm attended Wesleyan University ( Connecticut ) and at Washington University in St. Louis, and at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. He worked in theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004 he founded in St. Louis, the "Upstream Theater ", in which he himself directed and for which he also writes his own pieces. By Georg Büchner he adapted the dramatic fragment Woyzeck and brought it there in 2009 in his translation to the stage. He also translated a 2009 stage adaptation of The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Translated from the Polish, he translated into English, among other things Works by Stefan Chwin, Ida Fink and the Warsaw Ghetto book by Michał Grynberg, from German Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, Jungle of Cities by Bertolt Brecht, as well as works of Günter Grass, Christoph Hein, Franz Kafka, Herta Müller, Rafik Shami, Peter Schneider and Tilman Spengler. From Wilhelm Genazino he translated An umbrella for the day from the year 2001.

He was inducted as a Fellow in the Guggenheim Foundation. He was, inter alia, grants and awards by the Society of Authors, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Institute of Letters. In the German -speaking world, he was promoted by the Austrian Ministry of Education. He received the 2013 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for the translation of Gregory of Rezzori A Roman Ermine Tchernopol. For the translation of Herta Müller's Nobel Prize novel respiratory swing Boehm was in 2013 awarded the " Oxford - Weidenfeld Translation Prize".

Writings (selection )

  • Some Pitfalls of Translating Drama. Translation Review, Vol 62 No. 1, 2001, pp. 27-29

Translations ( selection)

List of translations Boehm at P.E.N.

  • Herta Müller: The hunger angel. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, Holt, 2012
  • Gregory of Rezzori: An ermine of Czernopol. New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2011
  • Christoph Hein: Settlement: a novel. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008 land grab.
  • Marta Hillers: A woman in Berlin: eight weeks in the conquered city: a diary. New York, NY: Picador, 2005 A Woman in Berlin.
  • Christoph Hein: Willenbrock: a novel. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.
  • Rafik Shami: Damascus nights. New York: Scribner, 1995.
  • Franz Kafka: Letters to Milena. New York: Schocken Books, 1990.
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