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"Und Gott chillte"? : Überlegungen zu neueren Bibelprojekten aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht
(2012)
Der Graben zwischen den Generationen ist nicht nur durch mangelndes Verständnis, sondern auch durch das Fehlen einer gemeinsamen Sprache, durch die Verweigerung zur Kommunikation unüberwindbar geworden. Dies ist nicht das Ergebnis der jüngsten Shell Jugendstudie, sondern das Szenario, das Birgit Vanderbeke in ihrem 2005 erschienenen Roman Sweet Sixteen entwirft.1 Der Protagonist, ein in die Jahre gekommener Trendforscher, versucht das Verschwinden der Jugendlichen zu ergründen, da es sich um eine neue Subkultur handeln könnte. Bei seiner Recherche stößt er auf eine Internetseite, die von einer Jugendkirche namens "Jesus Freaks" betrieben wird. [...]
Vorbild für die Jesus Freaks in Vanderbekes fiktionalem Text ist die gleichnamige Bewegung, die zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre in Hamburg gegründet wurde. Erklärtes Ziel war und ist es, den christlichen Glauben für Jugendliche – besonders solche am Rand der Gesellschaft – wieder attraktiv und ansprechend zu gestalten. Die jungen Gruppen kehrten sich radikal von der traditionellen, kirchlichen Praxis und Spiritualität ab. Wie in Vanderbekes Roman ging es nicht um eine Reformation bestehender Verhältnisse, sondern darum, eigene religiöse Formen zu finden. Dieses Bestreben umfasste konsequenterweise die kanonischen Texte der Bibel, deren Wortlaut (in der Luther- oder Elberfelder-Übersetzung) als antiquiert und alltagsfern galt. Martin Dreyer, der 1965 geborene Gründer der Jesus Freaks, startete 2004 das Volxbibel-Projekt, dessen sprachlicher Duktus im oben angeführten Zitat ironisch aufgegriffen wird. Anders als bei kommunikativen Übersetzungen der letzten fünfzig Jahre (bspw. Hoffnung für alle oder Gute Nachricht) ging es ihm nicht nur um einen zeitgemäßen und allgemeinverständlichen Sprachstil. Die Volxbibel sollte von Jugendlichen für Jugendliche ›übersetzt‹ werden, was durch ein Open-Source-Modell im Internet verwirklicht wurde.
Wie kaum ein anderes Projekt hat die BigS in den vergangenen sechs Jahren nicht nur in der akademisch-theologischen Landschaft, sondern auch in vielen Kirchengemeinden, bei Kirchenleitungen und in der gesellschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit für Aufsehen gesorgt. Dabei hat sich an ihr vor allem die Frage entzündet, ob sie als Übersetzung im eigentlichen Sinn oder bestenfalls als interpretierender Kommentar des biblischen Textes zu begreifen sei. Das damit eröffnete Spannungsfeld soll im Folgenden näher beleuchtet werden, ohne dass dieses mit Blick auf den notwendigerweise geringen Umfang des vorliegenden Beitrags umfassend ausgeleuchtet werden könnte. Die vorliegenden Überlegungen zielen vielmehr darauf, zu verdeutlichen, dass jede Übersetzung immer schon Interpretation und dass Texttreue daher nicht mit Wörtlichkeit gleichzusetzen ist.
In order to disseminate the information in newspapers, one of the instruments that increase sharing of knowledge in the globalizing world, at the international level, it is obligatory to translate texts from the source language to other languages. However, there are some criteria taken into account in order to transfer the information to a large target audience during the preparation of news. These criteria should also be taken into consideration while translating this kind of texts. Especially in the translation of news texts that are oriented towards the target audience and that address the knowledge/ interest levels of the target audience, the decisions and approaches of the translator are determining. In this study, the discussion will be based on what kind of knowledge the journalists/ translators who translate news texts should have. In this context, an analysis will be carried out regarding which factors have had a determining role in the translation of news in Turkish as source language into German to be used in a German newspaper.
This study examines the theory and practice of Kussmauls creative translating idea during the translating process of metaphors by Lakoff and Johnson. Creative translating could be functionalized for the process of literary translation. In this case it will be a vehicle for problem solving by the translation of the holistically metaphors defined by Lakoff/Johnson. These kinds of metaphors determine our live and are significant points of the language we use every day. Mostly they are very important for the receptively understanding of literary language and aims of the author and his text.
The learning outcomes of teaching translation in German departments at Moroccan universities have hardly been the subject of scientific debate among translation teachers and researchers alike. The actual translation course can only train students to pursue a career in intercultural communication and not in translation, because the teaching material and methodology don’t reflect the training objectives. The thesis of this paper is that the teaching of translation in the departments of German studies in Moroccan universities, as it stands, can have professional rather than academic goals, if the university pedagogical and technical conditions change and if the constraints projected in section 4 and the lines proposed in the same section below are followed.
Even if translation has a long tradition within the conveyance of foreign languages, there has been a vehement discussion on its role since the 1970s – at least with respect to some languages, such as English. In the context of German as a foreign language this topic has been discussed only to some extent. With this in mind, the following article aims to examine the role of translation in the field of the German as a foreign language with specific focus on the advantages and limitations associated with its conveyance and the resultant consequences.
This study concentrates on the problems of subtitling, mainly focusing on compensating strategies in the context of its restrictions with respect to time and space. With the help of a corpus analysis, what kind of information is condensed in the subtitling and whether these reductions have a role on the reception of the film will be analysed with regard to the confrontation of 1119 translating segments.
At the end of the 18th century, German literature boasted a wide range of exemplary translations, especially from ancient literatures. When, a few decades later, translation theory began to flourish in Germany, translations like J.H. Voß’s “foreignizing” versions of Homer’s epic poems were considered as examples to be followed. Although today’s dominant translation theories – as, for instance, skopos theory – tend to advocate “domesticating” procedures, most translators of literary texts cling to the tradition established by (pre-) romantic German translators and philosophers like Voß or Schleiermacher, thus obviously meeting the expectations of the German reader.
Nazım Hikmet’s fairy tale “Cloud in Love” (Sevdalı Bulut) enjoys a world-wide popularity: It has been already translated into many languages, has been filmed and staged several times. This even confirms the thesis of the poet that the fairy tale would appeal to every nation, every age and every cultural level. This article aims to examine Hikmet’s fairy tales under the aspect of the interculturality in his intersemiotic and interlingual translations. First, Hikmet’s perception of fairy tales will be studied, from which some clues are to be gained about the translations of his work. Afterwards, examples from intersemiotic translations of this fairy tale will be indicated. Finally, the German translation of this work will be analyzed, taking into account the transmission of cultural and stylistic elements.
This article has the objective to focus on the effects of globalization on the field of activity of the translators. With a historical overview covering the period from the Antique up to the present it is aimed to reveal that the emphasis on the translational demands were connected to the specific needs of that term. This analysis will show that the need for technical translation has increased. Based on this framework the effectivity of modern technical aids, which may be used with the purpose of accomplishing the translation of technical texts, is dealt with.