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Trainings

In each training session a certain skill relevant to translators will be trained, i.e. how to write proposals that get accepted, how to pitch the book you want to translate to publishers, how to market yourself and many more.


Session 35

September 11, 2025. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Abhijit Gupta

Abhijit Gupta is professor of English at Jadavpur University and director of Jadavpur University Press and the School of Cultural Texts and Records.

Tiya Hapitiawati

Tiya Hapitiawati is a literary translator from German language into Indonesian language.

Kristine Kress

Kristine Kress studied German studies, philosophy and Indonesian studies in Cologne. She lives as an editor, translator and coach in Berlin.

Session 33

January 16, 2025. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Andreas Förster

Translator of historical and political non-fiction, from French or English into German.

Session 26

September 28, 2023. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Shelly Bryant

Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator.

Session 25

August 18, 2023. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Diana Renker

Diana Renker grew up in Germany and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1983. After obtaining her MA in art history, she initially worked in the contemporary arts

Philipp Diepmans

Philipp Diepmans grew up in Oberhausen and started learning languages at an early age.

Session 20

April 27, 2023. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Dr M. Kharis

Dr M. Kharis is a lecturer at Universitas Negeri Malang with a PhD in Language and Literature Education.

Jana Grohnert

Jana Grohnert is a PhD candidate in Literary Translation Studies at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a bilingual translator working from English, German and French into English and German.

Carmen Grau

Carmen Grau is a freelance conference interpreter and a lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, where she teaches simultaneous and consecutive interpreting from Italian into German.

Session 17

January 19, 2023. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Taraka Leonardo Vipulaguna

Inspired by his mother’s bedtime story sessions Taraka Leonardo Vipulaguna has become an avid member of the club of all time fairy tale lovers.

Shelly Bryant

Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator.

Julia Rosche

Julia Rosche is a writer and editor at TraLaLit, a German magazine about literary translation.

Toni Pollard

Australian Toni Pollard had a 38-year career as a teacher of Indonesian language, both at high school and university level.

Kanaya Sophia

Kanaya Sophia began sharing her reading experience on YouTube and Instagram in April 2017.


Session 16

December 01, 2022. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Hannes Langendörfer

Hannes Langendörfer studied Scandinavian Studies and German Studies in Freiburg and Uppsala.

Dr Heike Patschke

Dr Heike Patschke is a literary translator and interpretor for Japanese.


Session 11

May 19, 2022. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Julian Müller

Julian Müller studied North-American-Studies, Musicology and Literary Translation in Berlin and Munich.


Session 6

January 27, 2022. 10:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Dr. Renate Birkenhauer

Since 2005 Vice-President of the Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegiums in Straelen.

Dr. Florence Widmer

At Übersetzerhaus Looren she is primarily responsible for the areas of promoting young talents, grants and events, and she moderates discussions on literary translation.

Rosemarie Tietze

Rosemarie Tietze translates classic and contemporary Russian literature

Session 3

October 28, 2021. 11:00 CET

Online Zoom meeting

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Rangsima Tunsakul

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Library House Co., Ltd. and Managing Director Bangkok Book Festival

Christina M. Udiani

Currently she lives in Jakarta and works as senior editor at Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG), one of the publishers under the umbrella of Kompas Gramedia

Naveen Kishore

Theatre lighting designer, photographer, publisher Seagull Books.