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 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
- Arden Must Die, opera libretto by Erich Fried
Co-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 Weiss
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
