Bernd Benecke
Bernd Benecke (born April 14, 1963 ) is audio film editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich and lecturer in audio description at Saarland University .
Life
After Benecke at the Georg-August University was completed in Göttingen his state examination for teaching at secondary schools in chemistry and mathematics, he founded together with Robert Müller, Andrea Hartwig and Elmar Dosch The team of German Filmbeschreiber, the 1989 See No Evil, Hear No Evil the made the first film with audio description in Germany. In 1993 he began to work as a news editor and newscaster for Bayerischer Rundfunk, where he became Germany's first editor for audio description in 1997. In 2013 he did his doctorate with his thesis audio description as partial translation. Model and method at Saarland University.
Memberships
- AITReN eV
Publications
- When pictures become words. Through audio description of the audio film . Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk 2004
- Audio Description - the race between costs and quality . In: Leipzig Studies on Applied Linguistics and Translatology, Vol. 5. Frankfurt, Peter Lang 2007
- Audio Description: Phenomena of information sequencing . Online at: www.euroconferences.info/proceedings/2007_Proceedings/html 2007
- Audio Description - the Art of Translating the Image . In: Zybatow, Lew: Forum Translationswissenschaft 11, Frankfurt, Peter Lang 2009
- Audio description and audio subtitling in a dubbing country: Case studies . In: Perego, Elisa (Ed.): Emerging topics in translation: Audio description. Trieste, EUT. 99-104 2012
- Aspects of audio description: character fixation and set fixation . In: Hansen-Schirra, Silvia / Kiraly Don (eds.): Project work in translation didactics. Frankfurt, Peter Lang 2012
- Audio description as partial translation. Model and method . To be published by LITverlag, probably in November 2013
Awards
German audio film award
- 2010 - The Reader
- 2011 - Lippel's dream
- 2011 - The Popess
- 2013 - Turkish for beginners
Further awards
- 2010 - Achievement Award in Audio Description International from the American Council of the blind
Individual evidence
- When pictures become words. Through audio description of the audio film . Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk 2004
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Benecke, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German audio film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1963 |