Geoffrey Skelton
Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator.[1] 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 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
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 Walkure (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
References
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