Felix Mayer

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Felix Mayer (* 1961 in Quiigart , Saar ) is a German linguist and has been the director of the Languages ​​& Interpreters Institute in Munich since September 1, 2000 .

Life

In 1980 Felix Mayer graduated from high school and then did community service. He studied linguistics and translation science in Saarbrücken and Mulhouse and graduated in 1988 as a qualified translator in the field of "Applied Linguistics as well as Translation and Interpreting" at Saarland University (French, Italian, technical field). In 1989 he became an employee ("Product Manager") of the company SynTec, Stuttgart, in the area of ​​development of terminology database systems and 1989–1993 research assistant in the pilot project "Study component language data processing in translator and interpreter training" at the University of Saarland (Head: Wolfram Wilss ) . From 1993 to 2000 he was a research assistant and project manager of the research group “Terminology and Specialized Languages” as well as acting head of the “Language and Law” department of the European Academy in Bolzano . Since September 2000 Felix Mayer has been director of the "Languages ​​& Dolmetscher Institut München", SDI, and since July 2007 President of the International University SDI Munich (before 2020: University of Applied Languages).

Felix Mayer is married and has one daughter.

research

In 1996 Mayer wrote his dissertation on the topic of entry models for terminological databases - a contribution to translation-oriented terminography at the Philosophical Faculty of Saarland University. His main research interests are: machine-aided translation, terminography, language technology and specialist language research.

Publications (selection)

  • 2014: Terminology work in theory and practice, in: In the field of tension between man and machine. The future of translators, interpreters and terminologists . 20th FIT World Congress for Translators, Interpreters and Terminologists, August 2014 in Berlin
  • 2013: Models for the representation of terminological data on the computer: Terminological databases, in: Rufus H. Gouws, Wolfgang Schweickard , Herbert Ernst Wiegand (Eds.): Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography. de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1461-1480
  • 2013: with Britta Nord (Ed.): From tradition into the future. Perspectives in Translation Studies. Festschrift for Christiane Nord . Frank & Timme, Berlin
  • 2012: with Wolfgang Baur, Brigitte Eichner, Sylvia Kalina (eds.): Translate into the future. Interpreters and translators: experts in international specialist communication. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ). Berlin, September 2012. BDÜ Publishing House, Berlin
  • 2012: with Klaus-Dirk Schmitz , (Ed.): Terminology processes and terminology tools. Files from the symposium at the German Terminology Day, Heidelberg, April 2012. DTT, Munich
  • 2008: with Dietmar Hertel: This side of Babel. From the profession of translation. SH-Verlag, Cologne
  • 1999: with Peter Sandrini : Terminology and WWW: Fischen im Netz, in: tekom-Nachrichten 2, 1999, pp. 10–12
  • 1998: with Susanne Mühlhaus: technical language law. Conference European Academy Bozen , in: Fachsprache 3–4 / 1998, pp. 157–159.
  • 1993: New tools at the translator's workplace. Integrated systems, in: BDÜ (Hrsg.): The professional environment of the interpreter and translator. Conference files, Bonn, April 1993, pp. 224–229
  • 1991: with Karl-Heinz Freilang, Klaus-Dirk Schmitz : language data processing in translator and interpreter training. Model test at the University of Saarbrücken, in: BDÜ-Mitteilungsblatt 2, 1991, pp. 9-12
  • 1990: Export and import of data in terminology management systems, in: "Terminologie et Traduction," 3, 1990, pp. 31–38

Functions (selection)

  • Member of the board or advisory board of the "Deutscher Terminologie-Tag eV" (DTT) (1992-present)
  • Member of the board of the "German Institute for Terminology (DIT)" (2004-present)
  • Deputy Chairman of the "Council for German Terminology" (RaDT) (since 2004)
  • Member of the board of the "Society for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer" (GTW) (1997–2000)
  • DTT symposia 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
  • 20th FIT World Congress for Translators, Interpreters and Terminologists 2014 in Berlin
  • International Conference of the BDÜ “Translating into the Future. Interpreters and translators: experts in international specialist communication “2012, Berlin
  • Transforum anniversary congress 2004, Saarbrücken
  • BDÜ Congress “Interpreting & Translation” 2001, Munich
  • "TKE '99", International Congress on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, Innsbruck
  • Chairman of the program committee and the organizing committee of the LSP '99 (XII European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes) in Bolzano / Brixen

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ Review by Regina Schleicher in Translate , Zs. Des VdÜ , 1, 2010, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Quiersche , Saar