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Geoffrey Skelton
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Name
Geoffrey Skelton
Awards
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
Movies
Marat/Sade
Died
1998
Role
Author
Books
Paul Hindemith: The Man Behind the Music : a Biography
Similar People
Adrian Mitchell, Peter Weiss, Peter Brook, Marquis de Sade, Jean‑Paul Marat
Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator. He specialized in German music, writing biographies of Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Wieland Wagner and Paul Hindemith. He also translated numerous plays by leading German-language writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch and Peter Weiss.
He won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice, the first one for his translation of Robert Lucas' biography of Frieda Lawrence and the second one for Siegfried Lenz's novel The Training Ground.
Translations
Frieda Lawrence by Robert Lucas
Cosima Wagner's Diaries: A New Selection by Cosima Wagner
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
Sketchbook 1966–1971 by Max Frisch
Selected Letters of Paul Hindemith by Paul Hindemith
Bluebeard: A Tale by Max Frisch
The Training Ground by Siegfried Lenz
As You Were: A Farce by Johann Nestroy
Arden Must Die, opera libretto by Erich Fried
Co-translations
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss (co-translators: Gill Lamden, Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell)
Collected Plays: "St Joan", "Mother", "Lindbergh's Flight", "Baden-Baden", "He Said Yes", "Decision", "Exception" by Bertolt Brecht (co-translators: John Willett, Ralph Manheim and Geoffrey Skelton)
Three Plays: "Fire Raisers", "Andorra", "Triptych" by Max Frisch (co-translators: Michael Peter Loeffler, Geoffrey Skelton and Michael Bullock)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) (English National Opera Guide 21) by Richard Wagner (co-translators: Geoffrey Skelton, Barry Millington and George Gillespie)
Cosima Wagner's Diaries, Vol. 2: 1878–1883 by Cosima Wagner (co-translators: Martin Gregor-Dellin, Dietrich Mack and Geoffrey Skelton)
Living for Brecht: The Memoirs of Ruth Berlau by Ruth Berlau (co-translators: Hans Bunge and Geoffrey Skelton)
The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed By the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton by Peter Weiss (co-translators: Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell)
Books
Wieland Wagner by Geoffrey Skelton
Paul Hindemith: The Man Behind the Music by Geoffrey Skelton
Wagner at Bayreuth: Experiment and Tradition by Geoffrey Skelton
Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage by Geoffrey Skelton
Wagner in Thought and Practice by Geoffrey Skelton
