Languages
- Mother tongue
German
- Translates from
Finnish
- Translates to
German, Romanian
- Other language skills
English, French, Moldavan, Romanian
Education
- Academic degree
MA Finnish, Greifswald (Germany)/Helsinki (Finland), 2017 (Sillanpää's 'Hurskas kurjuus' and its translations into German)
MA German/English, Timisoara (Romania), 1988 (Comparative linguistics: The word field of 'seeing')
- Additional subject-specific studies
Summer language course, CIMO, 2016
Translators' course, FILI, 2017
FILI's mentoring program 2018
Translators' course, Europäische Übersetzer-Akademie Straelen, 2018
Translators' course, Übersetzerhaus Looren, 2019
Translators' course, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, 2019
Finnish-German translators' course, Rendsburg, 2020
Translators' course, Colloquial language, Stralen 2023
Translations
- Interests and specialisation
Fiction, Prose, Drama, Literature for children and young people, Comics, Crime/detective, Fantasy & science fiction, Non-fiction, Anthropology, Archeology, Architecture, Art, Art history, Astronomy, Communications, Conservation, Demography, Economics, Geography, History, Industrial art, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Pedagogy and education, Philosophy, Photography and movies, Political science, Psychology, Publishing, Social policy, Sociology, Theatre and dance
- List of translations
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Conscience. German-Finnish literature yearbook, 2018. Original title: Omatunto by Juhani Aho. Genre: Prose. In the yearbook there has been pubished a fragment.
Riikka Jäntti: Little Mouse 4-7. Cross Cult, 2023. Original title: Pikku hiiri by Riikka Jäntti. Genre: Literature for children and young people.
Toni Nieminen, olympic hero. Audiomaa, 2023. Original title: Toni Nieminen, olympiasankari ja ihminen by Toni Nieminen. Genre: Non-fiction. together with two other translators
Little Mouse 1-6. Cross Cult, 2022, 2023. Original title: Pikku hiiri by Riikka Jäntti. Genre: Children’s picture books.
The Large Blue, Vantaa #1. Rote Katze Verlag Lübeck, 2022. Original title: Sinisiipi by J.P. Pulkkinen. Genre: Prose.
REC. German-Finnish literature yearbook, 2021. Original title: REC by Marisha Rasi-Koskinen. Genre: Prose. In the yearbook there has been pubished a fragment.
Great feelings. Lübbe Verlag, 2022. Original title: Rakkaus haltuun by Dr. Emilia Vuorisalmi. Genre: Non-fiction.
Herder, Finland, Europe. balticsealibrary.info, 2021. Original title: Herder, Suomi, Eurooppa by Sakari Ollitervo & Kari Immonen. Genre: Prose.
My father, evacuee from Karelia. balticsealibrary.info, 2021. Original title: Isäni, evakko by Jukka-Pekka Pietiäinen. Genre: Prose.
Der unbekannte Kimi Räikkönen. Lübbe, 2018. Original title: Tuntematon Kimi Räikkönen by Kari Hotakainen. Genre: Non-fiction. Together with Gabriele Schrey-Vasara
Lieber Netflix als Bücherlesen. Frankfurter Rundschau, 2. February 2019. Original title: Ope, mitä tarkoittaa toi kuulas? by Tommi Kinnunen. Genre: Non-fiction. Long newspaper article
Himmelsträger. Hans-Werner-Richter-Stiftung, 2016. Original title: Taivaankantaja by Riikka Pelo. Genre: Prose. Translated together with a group of other students
Die Kreislinge. Rounders Entertainment, 2017. Original title: Ympyräiset by Mari Korkeamäki. Genre: Children’s picture books.
Das Russlandhaus. Architectural Digest Germany, 2003. Original title: The Russia-House by Jo Durden-Smith. Genre: Drama. Translated from English into German
- Now translating
Christian Rönnbacka: Henna Björk - Koodi (The Code)
I will be pleased to write reader’s reports.
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Päivitetty:
15.5.2024