July 8, 2023 – Translation in History

Marin Jänes on Translating Multilingualism in the Estonian Translation of Edzard Schaper’s „Der Henker“ (1940) by Katrin Kaugver „Timukas“ (2009)

At the conference „Jenseits der Deiche. Konflikte der Abgrenzung“, organized by the University of Utrecht and Gesellschaft für Internationale Germanistik, Marin Jänes presented her research on multilingualism in Baltic German literature. Edzard Schaper’s novel „Der Henker“ (1940) offers a display of various ways of lexical and non-lexical multilingualism. The presentation […]

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Saagpakk on Early Translations of Fictional Literature into Estonian

At the conference “Jenseits der Deiche. Konflikte der Abgrenzung” Maris Saagpakk presented her research on 19th century fictional translations into Estonian. The presentation gave an overview of the general translation trends into Estonian in the second half of the 19th century, and discussed examples of translatory works by Estonian translators […]