Career
Wollschläger is widely known as the translator of Ulysses by James Joyce. He also translated the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe (together with Arno Schmidt), and novels by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He was vice chairman of the Karl-May-Gesellschaft (Karl May society) and was one of the editors of the historical critical edition of this author
Originally Hans Wollschläger had studied music
He wrote three symphonies which have never been performed in public. He also worked on a performing edition of the draft of Gustav Mahler"s unfinished Tenth Symphony, which he never completed.
However, under the influence of Erwin Ratz, Wollschläger came to the conclusion that an unfinished masterwork should not be touched, and publicly withdrew his edition in 1962.