Wiedergabe von Personennamen in der gegenwärtigen polnischen Übersetzung der „Kinder- und Hausmärchen“ der Brüder Grimm

Abstract

The Children’s and Household Tales by Brothers Grimm are world famous thanks to their translations in many languages. In the presented article its author refers to her own translation of the Grimms’ folktale collection (published in 2010) and discusses translation decisions referring to selected personal names. The functional typology of literary names by H. Birus (1987) builds a starting point for detailed translation analyses in three categories: speaking, classifying and embodying names. It is surprising that in a translation which was intended by its author to be philologically faithful the majority of anthroponyms was not transcribed (in order to render their foreign character) but became domesticated by means of adaptation, substitution and literal translation. It proves that in a literary piece of work proper names fulfill complex functions which makes the translator choose different translation methods to render them.