Philip Boehm

Philip Boehm (born 1958) is an American playwright, theater director and literary translator.[1] Born in Texas, he was educated at Wesleyan University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the State Academy of Theater in Warsaw, Poland.

Boehm is the founder of Upstream Theater in St. Louis,[2] which has become known for its productions of foreign plays. Fluent in English, German and Polish, he has directed plays in Poland and Slovakia. His own written work includes several plays such as Mixtitlan, Soul of a Clone, The Death of Atahualpa, The Good Ship Saint Louis, and Return of the Bedbug.

Boehm has translated over thirty novels and plays by German and Polish writers, including Herta Müller, Franz Kafka and Hanna Krall. Nonfiction translations include A Woman in Berlin and Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto. For these translations he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts[3] and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as several awards including the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, and the Ungar German Translation Award by the American Translators Association (ATA). He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Selected translations and adaptations

References

  1. ^ Profile Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine at John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  2. ^ Upstream Theater. About Archived 2019-02-28 at the Wayback Machine Upstream Theater, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.
  3. ^ "Philip Boehm – 2016 Translation", National Endowment for the Arts
  4. ^ Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander (2025). Berlin Shuffle. Translated by Philip Boehme. Pushkin Press. ISBN 978-1782279150. Originally appeared in Swedish translation, Människor utanför (1937), then in German, Menschen neben dem Leben (2019).
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