Walter Schmiele

Walter Schmiele (12 April 1909 in Swinemünde – 21 October 1998 in Darmstadt) was a German writer and translator.

He studied German literature, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Vienna and Rostock.

[citation needed] After the Second World War, he worked as a freelance journalist and literary critic for many newspapers and radio stations.

His translation of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ("Bekenntnisse eines englischen Opiumessers") von Thomas De Quincey, first published in 1947 (Parzeller) was re-issued by Goverts (1962), DTV (1965), Medusa (1982) and Insel (2009).

His 1961 published Monography on Henry Miller (rororo) was regularly re-issued since then and was translated in various languages (among others in French, Japanese and Dutch).