Listed here is a selection of my translation work. For more about translations and publications by Kurt Beals, including reviews of published translations, please visit my website: kurtbeals.com.

SCHOLARLY AND LITERARY TRANSLATIONS

Hermann Hesse, The Steppenwolf, forthcoming from W.W. Norton (2023)

Andreas Kilcher / Pavel Schmidt, Franz Kafka: The Drawings, Yale University Press (2022)

Jenny Erpenbeck, Not a Novel: Essays and Speeches, 1999-2018, New Directions (2020)

Reiner Stach, Is that Kafka? 99 Finds, New Directions (2016)

Regina Ullmann, The Country Road, New Directions (2013)

Anja Utler, engulf – enkindle, poetry (Providence: Burning Deck, 2010); excerpts, with translator’s introductions, published in Two Lines (2010) and in Triple Canopy (February 2011). Finalist for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation

Alexander Kluge, “Curiosity is my Profession” and “When push comes to shove, politics demands the impossible,” stories, in n+1 (Spring 2005

Alexander Kluge, “A German scholar in Persia,” “On the advancing frontiers of Europe,” and “500 Euros for an attorney,” stories, in Dimension², 9.1 & 2

Jana Hensel, “Country Girl,” in The New York Times (September 22, 2005)

Helmuth Kiesel, “November 1918,” article, in A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin, R. Dollinger, W. Koepke, and H. Tewarson, eds. (Elizabethtown, NY: Camden House, 2003

Ernst Jandl, “a love story: rushed,” translation/variation on the poem “a love-story: dringend,” The Spook (April/May 2002)

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

For The Criterion Collection: Essays by Billy Wilder and Robert Siodmak for the DVD release of People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)

For the World Arthrosis Organization: Translation of publications and correspondence

For ORBIS Sprachdienste, Mönchengladbach, Germany: Translation of websites including www.fujifilm.de and www.finepix.de

For Sprachendienst Bangard BDÜ VÜ, Marburg (Lahn), Germany: Translation of promotional materials for the re-release of the film Metropolis