"Translating a scene..."
Georg Witte und Sabine Hänsgen: "Translating a scene...", 1/18/2024, http://www.toledo-programm.de/talks/6847/translating-a-scene
| Dokumenttyp | Online-Einzelbeitrag |
| Sprache(n) | Englisch |
| Autor·in | Georg Witte und Sabine Hänsgen |
| Titel | "Translating a scene..." |
| Publikationsjahr | 2024 |
| Publikationsdatum | 1/18/2024 |
| Inhaltsangabe | Sabine Hänsgen (born 1955) and Georg Witte (born 1952) experienced the losses of the Second World War as part of their own family history, which also fuelled their interest in Russian culture. The future translator duo met while studying Slavic Studies at the Reform University in Bochum. The atmosphere of renewal in research and teaching there and the focus on contemporaneity had a decisive influence on both of them. When Hänsgen and Witte went to Moscow with their research projects at the beginning of the 1980s, they quickly made contact with unofficial Soviet art - and threw themselves into translating. Their aim was "not only to publish in writing as a book, but also to convey the entire milieu in the voices, actions and performances that took place there," says Georg Witte. Sabine Hänsgen smuggled a VHS camera into Moscow to record the artistic actions and performances. "To discover the similar in the dissimilar or the dissimilar in the similar" is how she describes the approach of embedding the conceptual art of the Soviet underground in a Western context. The first publication, the media package "Kulturpalast" (1984), was soon followed by others. The double pseudonym of the translator couple, Günter Hirt & Sascha Wonders, once conceived as protection against censorship, lived on even after the end of the Soviet Union. Thanks to the work of Günter Hirt & Sascha Wonders, we can now read the voices of Igor Cholin, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Dmitri Prigov and Lev Rubinstein, among others, in German translations. For Hänsgen and Witte, the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022 meant an "existential cut", as it did for other colleagues who deal with Russian literature. |
| URL | http://www.toledo-programm.de/talks/6847/translating-a-scene |
| Übergeordnete Website | TOLEDO |
| Originalsprache | Deutsch |
| Sammelgebiet | Über das Übersetzen |
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