#erika fuchs

[cirilee]

Not to say that the english writers aren’t brilliant in their own right, but for me, nothing tops the hilarious translations by the immortal Dr Erika Fuchs :’)

also i really wanna know what the differences in other languages are? are there any famous italian or finnish writers/translators?

[tilos-tagebuch]

Heute gibt es einen Geburtstag aus der Übersetzungs- und Grammatikgeschichte für euch. OnThisDay 1906 wurde nämlich Dr. Erika Fuchs geboren.

Fast 40 Jahre lang übersetzte sie die Donald-Duck- und Micky-Maus-Hefte, deren Chefredakteurin sie auch war, ins Deutsche.

Ihre Verbformen wurden stilbildend: Der Inflektiv wird ihr zu Ehren auch "Erikativ" genannt.

[tenkoman]

A short video about one of one probably unknown outside Germany woman, but still important Disney employee and mother of today’s comic culture in Germany

[xxxdannickxxx]

Für müßiges Spiel gebricht es mir an Zeit.

Dr. Erika Fuchs

[mikedares]

[martin-gerhard]

Germany, the land of Goethe, Thomas Mann and Beethoven, has an unlikely pop culture hero: Donald Duck. Just as the French are obsessed with Jerry Lewis, the Germans see a richness and complexity to the Disney comic that isn’t always immediately evident to people in the cartoon duck’s homeland.

… Donald Duck’s popularity was helped along by Erika Fuchs, a free spirit in owlish glasses who was tasked with translating the stories. A Ph.D. in art history, Dr. Fuchs had never laid eyes on a comic book before the day an editor handed her a Donald Duck story, but no matter. She had a knack for breathing life into the German version of Carl Barks’s duck. Her talent was so great she continued to fill speech bubbles for the denizens of Duckburg (which she renamed Entenhausen, based on the German word for “duck”) until shortly before her death in 2005 at the age of 98.

Ehapa directed Dr. Fuchs to crank up the erudition level of the comics she translated, a task she took seriously. Her interpretations of the comic books often quote (and misquote) from the great classics of German literature, sometimes even inserting political subtexts into the duck tales. Dr. Fuchs both thickens and deepens Mr. Barks’s often sparse dialogues, and the hilariousness of the result may explain why Donald Duck remains the most popular children’s comic in Germany to this day.