General
The Goldschmidt Programme for German- and French-speaking literary translators
Isabelle Liber
After studying German and French Linguistics and Literature at Strasbourg University and completing an MA in Publishing at the Sorbonne in Paris, Isabelle Liber published her first translation from German with Actes Sud in 2002. She was a member of the Goldschmidt Programme in 2005.
After studying German and French Linguistics and Literature at Strasbourg University and completing an MA in Publishing at the Sorbonne in Paris, Isabelle Liber published her first translation from German with Actes Sud in 2002. She was a member of the Goldschmidt Programme in 2005.
Her translation work has been growing steadily over the last years and includes novels, short stories, art books, non-fiction and YA.
Claudia Hamm
Claudia Hamm is the German mentor of literary translators and heads the Translation Workshop of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin institution. She took part in the Goldschmidt Programme in 2007, and organised staged readings with participants in Arles and Paris in 2017 and 2018.
Claudia Hamm is the German mentor of literary translators and heads the Translation Workshop of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin institution. She took part in the Goldschmidt Programme in 2007, and organised staged readings with participants in Arles and Paris in 2017 and 2018.
After her studies of Philosophy and German in Paris, Antofagasta (Chile), and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), Claudia Hamm worked as a theatre director and author, and also started working as a translator in the 2000s. She was nominated in 2016 for the translation award of the Leipziger Buchmesse for her translations of works by Emmanuel Carrère, Mathias Énard, Édouard Levé and Nathalie Quintanes. She has received a number of grants, as well as the Literature Award bestowed by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft. She teaches at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and the Freie Universität Berlin, works as a mentor for the German Translation Fund (Deutscher Übersetzungsfonds DÜF), and regularly writes theatre texts, essays and prose for the literary magazine Merkur and the German-French newspaper La Mer Gelée. In her novel Rübermachen, she writes about hearing and raising voices in the process of translation.
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
The scholarship programme is organised jointly by Frankfurter Buchmesse, the Franco-German Youth Office (DFJW), the society for promoting French literature abroad (BIEF) and Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council.
The scholarship programme is organised jointly by Frankfurter Buchmesse, the Franco-German Youth Office (DFJW), the society for promoting French literature abroad (BIEF) and Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council.
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt has been a patron of the German-French literary translation programme named after him since 2007. Born on 2 May 1928 in Reinbek near Hamburg, he and his older brother were taken into exile in France in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution. Goldschmidt became a French citizen and French became his language. It wasn’t long before he made a name for himself as a translator of German literature. In addition to his work as a translator, Goldschmidt writes numerous essays and autobiographical pieces.
Translation is a skill you have to acquire. When working in teams of two or at the plenum in Wannsee and Arles, we saw our texts improve. Translation is an important profession – you discover this when you come into contact with publishers from France and Germany. The Goldschmidt programme is a first small step towards becoming a literary translator. But it's an important one.
2019 Goldschmidt Scholar
Spending two months surrounded by interested, appreciative, talented and committed people who share their own passion for language and literature is one of the most enriching experiences of my life.
2019 Goldschmidt Scholar
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