Erika Fuchs, née Petri (7 December 1906 in Rostock – 22 April 2005 in Munich), was a German translator. She is largely known in Germany due to her translations of American Disney comics, especially Carl Barks' stories about Duckburg and its inhabitants. Many of her creations (re)entered the German language, and her followers today recognize her widely quoted translations as standing in the tradition of great German-language light poetry such as by Heinrich Heine, Wilhelm Busch, and Kurt Tucholsky. Unlike the English originals, her translations included many hidden quotes and literary allusions. As Fuchs once said, "You can't be educated enough to translate comic books". Life Johanne Theodolinde Erika Petri was born on 7 December 1906 in Rostock into a well-to-do large family. She was one of six children and the eldest daughter of the electrical engenieer August Petri and his wife Auguste. Erika spent most of her childhood and youth in Belgard, a small rural town in Pomerania, where her father became director of the newly built electric power plant in 1911. In 1922 Erika Petri was the first girl to be admitted to the boys' Gymnasium (grammar school) in Belgard. She passed her Abitur exam there in 1926. She went on to study art history in Lausanne, Munich and London and graduated with a doctorate in 1931. Her dissertation titled "" ("A contribution to the history of German Rococo)" was marked magna cum laude. It appeared in print only in 1935. In 1932 Erika Petri married the engineer, industrialist and inventor Günter Fuchs (1907-1984). From 1933 to 1984 the couple lived in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, a small industrial town in Upper Franconia. They had two sons, Thomas and Nikolaus. After the World War II Erika Fuchs worked as a translator for the German edition of Reader's Digest, als well as for a German literary magazine published by Rowohlt Verlag since 1946 and titled 'Story'. In 1951, she became chief editor of Disney's newly founded German Micky Maus magazine, where she worked until she retired in 1988. After the death of her husband in 1984 Erika Fuchs moved to Munich. She died on 22 April 2005 in Munich. Work Many of her creations as translator of Carl Barks comics entered or reentered the German language. The phrase "Dem Ingeniör ist nichts zu schwör" - "nothing is too hard for an engineer" but with the vowels (umlauts) at the