Contents

Sabine Egger
Introduction: On Cultural and Literary Translators

I. Cultural Translators

Deirdre Mulrooney
Erina Brady (1891-1961): Irish/German Harbinger of Modern Dance to 1940s Ireland

Joachim Fischer
German Culture in Denis Johnston’s (1901-1984) Life and Work: A Synopsis

Claire O’Reilly
Author, Activist and Anglo-Irish Émigré: The Life and Work of Christabel Bielenberg (1909-2003

Sabine Egger
Elizabeth Shaw (1920-1992): The Irish Caricaturist who Left Her Mark on East German Children’s Literature

Mervyn O’Driscoll
The ‘half-Irish’ Herbert Remmel (*1936)

Susan Tebbutt
German-Irish and Other Encounters in Children’s Literature: Emer O’Sullivan (*1957)

II. Literary Translators

Hermann Rasche
Elisabeth Schnack (1899-1992): “Translators: There are [.] five to a penny” _ “But there’s no one like me”

Gisela Holfter
Annemarie Böll (1910-2004): Outside the Limelight

Sabine Strümper-Krobb
Translator, Performer and Artist – Harry Rowohlt (*1945) as Mediator of Irish Literature

John F. Deane
Eva Bourke (*1946): A Transnational Poet and Translator

Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
Gabriel Rosenstock (*1949): “The Rejection of the Early Morning Dew”

Marion Winters
Hans-Christian Oeser (*1950):

Translation Strategies of a Literary Translator

Rachel McNicholl
Twenty Questions with Polyglot Translator and Folklorist Gabriele Haefs (*1953)