Hanna Blum
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hanna Blum plays a role.
Articles
2024 Translating Erich Prunč Translation in Society 3:2, pp. 227–235 | Article
In this short introduction to our translation of Erich Prunč’s Zur Konstruktion von Translationskulturen (2008a), we shed light on the scholar Erich Prunč, provide some background to the concept of “Translationskultur,” and explain some aspects of our translatorial decisions that readers will… read more
2024 On the construction of translation cultures Translation in Society 3:2, pp. 236–254 | Article
The paper by Erich Prunč introduces and develops the concept of translationskultur, a concept that captures cultural and social aspects of translation. Expanding beyond the narrow traditional views of equivalence and text oriented approaches that were dominant in translation studies when Prunč… read more
2020 Specialized translators in the GDR: Professionals across politics, scientific knowledge and translatorial competence Translation and the cultural Cold War, Haddadian-Moghaddam, Esmaeil and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.), pp. 333–353 | Article
This article aims to show that not only was translation in the cultural Cold War used to manipulate ideologies across the Iron Curtain, but it also played a decisive role in establishing socialist structures in satellite states, including those involved with the transfer of knowledge, thus giving… read more