Events for Translators

We are offering regular events for emerging and established literary translators of all language combinations.

Feel free to use this opportunity to discuss practical and theoretical joys and issues related to your work!

Event series

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Translators' Stammtisch

The Translators’ Stammtisch is free to attend and open to experienced and emerging literary translators of all language combinations. Join us in-person or online for this hybrid meeting of our regular translators’ get-together!

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online

In Their Own Words

Our reading group for translators is free and open to all translators, near and far, working in any language pair, who have an interest in the background questions, the theory and ethics of translation. Sessions are currently paused and will continue in 2026.

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Newsletter cultural events

Find out more about our events in the visual arts, film, literature, music, dance and theatre!

Recommendations

Award for Translation

Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation

Find out everything about the Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation: prizes, submission deadlines and conditions of participation.

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Technology and Literature

A.I. AND LITERARY TRANSLATION

Is Artificial Intelligence advanced enough to grasp and process literary texts in all their linguistic richness, and translate them into another language?

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worldwide

Translation funding

Our translation funding programme for publishers supports the publication of translated books by German authors.

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