Name Harry Rowohlt Role Writer | Spouse Ulla Rowohlt (m. ?–2015) | |
 | ||
Died June 15, 2015, Hamburg, Germany Movies The Little Polar Bear, Duck, Death and the Tulip Parents Ernst Rowohlt, Maria Rowohlt Similar People Ernst Rowohlt, Heinrich Maria Ledig‑Rowohlt, Kenneth Grahame, David Sedaris, Shel Silverstein | ||
Gregor gysi befragt harry rowohlt
Harry Rowohlt (27 March 1945 – 15 June 2015) was a German writer and translator. He also played the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße.
Contents
- Gregor gysi befragt harry rowohlt
- Ein gespr ch mit harry rowohlt achim bogdahn 2009
- Background
- Works
- References
Ein gespr ch mit harry rowohlt achim bogdahn 2009
Background
Born Harry Rupp in Hamburg, Rowohlt was the son of publisher Ernst Rowohlt and actress Maria Rowohlt; his parents married in 1957.
Rowohlt is known for his insightful and humorous translation of Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. He also published German translations of works by Philip Ardagh, Donald Barthelme, Hilaire Belloc, Roger Boylan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leonard Cohen, Robert Crumb, David Sedaris, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Hemingway, Flann O'Brien, Gilbert Shelton, Shel Silverstein, James Joyce, and Kurt Vonnegut.
In 1999 he was awarded the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung. And in 2005, he received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for his translation work.
Works
He also translated Andy Stanton's Mr Gum series into German.
