German Eugen-Helmlé Translation Prize 2011 goes to Holger Fock and Sabine Müller

Jun 13, 2011 | Germany

Tags: GermanyThis year’s Eugen-Helmlé Translation Prize will be awarded to Holger Fock and Sabine Müller for their outstanding translations of French literature. Together they have translated a large number of modern French authors into German – among them Pierre...

German Federal Court verdict on remuneration of translators

Apr 28, 2011 | Germany

Tags: GermanyThe rulings concerning the verdict of German Federal Court in the translator remuneration dispute that has been occupying the German publishing scene since the 2002 amendment to German copyright law, have recently been made available. In brief,...

Prize-winning documentary on Russian translator Geier on Swiss television

Mar 11, 2011 | Germany, Switzerland

Tags: Germany, SwitzerlandSvetlana Geier, considered one of the greatest translators of Russian literature into German, spent more than twenty years working on the translation of five novels by Dostoyevsky. At age of 85, Geier leaves Germany, her adopted country, for...

New German Federal Court verdict

Jan 20, 2011 | Germany

Tags: GermanyThe German Federal Court has pronounced a new verdict in the ‘translator remuneration dispute’ that has been occupying the German publishing scene since the 2002 amendment to German copyright law. A first reaction from the German literary...

ViceVersa: a new international programme for continuous training of literary translators

Dec 7, 2010 | Germany

Tags: GermanyWith the support of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and under the patronage of the Minister of State, Cornelia Pieper, the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds and the Robert Bosch Stiftung have set up an international programme for the continuous training of...