ABOUT THE TRANSLATING

Hanuš Karlach – Günter Grass a Alfred Döblin

After studying German, English and Russian at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University (by prof. Goldstücker) he gained his postgragual degree in 60ties at the J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt nad Mohanem. He worked in the publishing houses Odeon and Mladá Fronta as an editor and lector. Between 1991 and 1995 he worked as international secretary of the International PEN Club Czech center. Since 2000 he has been working as a translator, literary historian an a free lance critic. He translated into czech german authors such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alfred Döblin, Franz Werfel, Günter Grass, Volker Braun, Christa Wolf, Christoph Heine, Gottfried Benn, Karl Kraus or Adalbert Stifter. In the very end of last year it was published a novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann in his translation. A National Prize for translation was awarded to him in 2015. His translation of Thomas Mann´s novel Doktor Faustus was published in 2015.