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Ralph Manheim
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Translator of:
Berliner Ensemble Adaptations,
Brecht Collected Plays: 2,
Brecht Collected Plays: 3,
Brecht Collected Plays: 6,
Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke,
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
Saint Joan of the Stockyards,
The Threepenny Opera,
The Threepenny Opera,
The Threepenny Opera
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Anthology Editor of:
Brecht Collected Plays: 1,
Brecht Collected Plays: 2,
Brecht Collected Plays: 5,
Brecht Collected Plays: 6,
The Caucasian Chalk Circle,
Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht,
The Good Person Of Szechwan,
Life Of Galileo,
Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke,
Mother Courage and Her Children,
Mr Puntila and His Man Matti,
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
The Threepenny Opera
Biography
Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85.