Tag: translator
Munich Translator Prize for Werner von Koppenfels – Munich
“Poetry is what the translator has to preserve, and his cause is not completely hopeless” – this sentence from Werner von Koppenfels is quoted in the jury’s reasoning that recently…
Coburg: 33-year-old robs woman using online translator – and threatens with a weapon – Bavaria
Using an online translation service on his cell phone, a 33-year-old man in Upper Franconia robbed the saleswoman at a train station kiosk on Saturday. When he demanded money from…
33-year-old robs woman using online translator – Bavaria
Using an online translation service on his cell phone, a 33-year-old man in Upper Franconia robbed the saleswoman at a train station kiosk on Saturday. When he demanded money from…
Artificial intelligence: hype about "Hey Gen": stern reporter tests viral AI translator
At the beginning of September 2023, a video went viral on the news service X in which tech influencer Jon Finger tried out a new translation AI. The star does…
With HeyGen’s AI translator, the war between pro-VOST and pro-VF is over?
The feud is almost as old as the history of cinema. On the one hand, the purists, those who swear by the original version, the “real voice” of Will Smith…
Literary translator Andrea O’Brien receives another grant – Bavaria
The 7,000-euro working grant from the Free State of Bavaria goes to Andrea O’Brien in 2023 for her translation of the novel “Unsettled Ground” by Claire Fuller from English into…
Award: “Asterix” translator receives comic award “Peng!”
Award “Asterix” translator receives comic award “Peng!” Gudrun Penndorf is honored. photo © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Generations of readers have grown up with her work. In addition to “Asterix”, Gudrun Penndorf…
Translator Eike Schönfeld on the racism debate in literature
03/26/2023, 16:49 10 mins Astrid Lindgren, Ian Fleming, Mark Twain: When it comes to new translations of great literary classics, the question of how to deal with racist terms is…
On the Death of the Translator John E. Woods – Culture
From Willie Winkler By rights, Patrick Süskind, Ingo Schulze, Christoph Ransmayr and Doris Dörrie should appear in this ad, along with Libuše Mónikóva, Günter Grass, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Alfred Döblin and…
Package Insert: Ask your doctor or translator
Status: 01/28/2023 3:13 p.m Many foreign words, very long and small print: package inserts for medicines are often difficult to understand. But how could it be easier? A research team…