Encounters: Angela Krauß and Margret Vince

Known for her crisp, laconic style and her political engagement with Germany's recent past and present, Angela Krauβ (Leipzig) is a prize-winning German writer. Having worked in advertising before studying literature in Leipzig and becoming a freelance writer, her stories and novels display a detailed sceptical view of reality in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin wall. Author and translator will read from Krauβ's novel Im schönsten Fall (2011) in German and English translation. The reading will be followed by an in-depth discussion of political and theoretical matters of translation.

Margret Vince is a freelance translator based in Nottingham. Her work includes literary and philosophical as well as technical translations and transcriptions, and holding translation workshops. In 2014 she transcribed and translated letters and postcards written between 1938 and 1945 for a project honouring Austrian victims of the Holocaust as part of The Vienna Project in cooperation with Austrian schools and universities.

Speakers: Angela Krauß; Margret Vince

Date: 19 May 2015

This event is sponsored by the Keith Spalding Bequest Fund