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Cambridge Translation Event for Schools

 

The Second Cambridge German Network Event on 13 June 2015 was featured in the University News. This event on Translation for school teachers, A-level and GCSE students offered a range of talks, seminars and workshops and a choice of fascinating speakers, including Karl Fritz, translator of the Harry Potter books into German. For further details, please click on the poster

For our second Cambridge German Network event, we invited teachers of German and their GCSE and A-level students to a day dedicated to the teaching and learning of Translation. The programme included talks and seminars given by 

  • Klaus Fritz, translator of the Harry Potter books into German
  • Mike Mitchell, translator of German literature into English
  • Duncan Large, director of the British Centre for Literary Translation

 and parallel workshops on translation for

  • students at GCSE level
  • students at A level
  • teachers of German (any level)

A talk by John Guthrie launched the exhibition Germans in Britain courtesy of the Migration Museum, and all participants were invited to visit the exhibition. For more information, please click here.  The event was free and made possible by the generous support of the Schröder Fund for German Studies at Cambridge. 

Further details can be found on the poster of the event 

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