January 19–27, 2009
Literary Exchange Switzerland–China

This week-long meeting opened a project initiated by the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. It brought together the Chinese translators Chen Wei, Fan Jieping, Li Zanglin, and Chen Zhuangying with writers Monique Schwitter and Peter Stamm.

Supported by the Ernst Göhner Stiftung, the UBS Culture Foundation, and Pro Helvetia

March 6–10, 2009
The same renew: Joyces Ulysses deutsch erneuert (The same renew: Joyce’s Ulysses renewed in German)

Max Geilinger Translators’ Workshop at Translation House Looren 

Workshop leaders: Fritz Senn, Harald Beck, Dirk Schultze, Dirk Vanderbeke

Harald Beck has worked on James Joyce for many decades and also translated his work. With Dirk Schultze and Dirk Vanderbeke, editors of the first annotated edition of the German Ulysses, and Fritz Senn, director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, he talked to the workshop participants about the revision of Hans Wollschläger’s now classic Ulysses translation, inviting them to work together on translating particular excerpts.

In cooperation with the Max Geilinger Foundation and Zurich James Joyce Foundation.

November 1–7, 2009
Translators’ Workshop Turkish and German at Translation House Looren 

Workshop leader: Gerhard Meier and Ali Nalbant

Following the tried-and-tested principle of our bilingual workshops, twelve translators from Turkish into German or German into Turkish spent a week working intensively on their translation projects.

Supported by the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (German Translators’ Fund), the S. Fischer Stiftung, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and Pro Helvetia

November 12–18, 2009
November Workshop at Translation House Looren

Nine translators were invited to Looren, and discussed their current projects translating works by Robert Walser and the novel Hundert Tage by Lukas Bärfuss.

Alongside their detailed work on the texts, the participants gained new insights into twentieth-century Swiss literature through lectures and discussions. Author Klaus Merz read from his work Der Argentinier.

In cooperation with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia