Geoffrey Skelton
Geoffrey David Skelton was a British author and translator. 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 Bertolt 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 LucasCosima Wagner's Diaries: A New Selection by Cosima WagnerMan in the Holocene by Max FrischSketchbook 1966–1971 by Max FrischSelected Letters of Paul Hindemith by Paul HindemithBluebeard: A Tale by Max FrischThe Training Ground by Siegfried LenzAs You Were: A Farce by Johann NestroyArden Must Die, opera libretto by Erich FriedCo-translations
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss Collected Plays: "St Joan", "Mother", "Lindbergh's Flight", "Baden-Baden", "He Said Yes", "Decision", "Exception" by Bertolt Brecht Three Plays: "Fire Raisers", "Andorra", "Triptych" by Max Frisch Die Walküre by Richard Wagner Cosima Wagner's Diaries, Vol. 2: 1878–1883 by Cosima Wagner Living for Brecht: The Memoirs of Ruth Berlau by Ruth Berlau by Peter WeissBooks
Wieland Wagner. The Positive Sceptic Paul Hindemith: The Man Behind the Music Wagner at Bayreuth: Experiment and Tradition Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage- ''Wagner in Thought and Practice''