Henrik Gottlieb

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Henrik Gottlieb (* 1953 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) is a Danish translation scholar and subtitler. He teaches as an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies.

Life

After graduating from Junior College in 1971, Gottlieb worked from 1980 to 1990 as a subtitler for Radio Denmark (culture & fiction) and from 1988 to 1990 for Danish TV2 at Columbus Film (documentaries) in Copenhagen. In 1990 he completed a master's degree in English and applied linguistics at the University of Copenhagen and worked from 1990 to 1992 as a research assistant at the Center for Translation Studies and Lexicography. From 1992 to 1995 he was a research fellow at the Institute for English Studies and in 1995 he was a research fellow in the subtitling department of TV International at Radio Denmark in Copenhagen. In 1995 he also took on a 1-year extraordinary professorship at the Institute for English Studies. From 1996 to 1999 he worked there as a lecturer and completed his doctorate in translation studies at the University of Copenhagen in 1998 with the thesis Subtitles, Translation & Idioms . Since 2000 he has been teaching as an associate professor at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2006 he has been editor-in-chief of Perspectives magazine. Studies in Translatology. His main research interests are the influence of the English language on other languages ​​and subtitling strategies.

Work (selection)

  • Co-organizer of the Language International Conferences in Translation and Interpreting (1991–95)
  • Co-founder of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (Wales 1995)
  • External evaluator of doctoral theses at the University of Šiauliai in Lithuania (2002)
  • Board member of the journal Across Languages ​​and Cultures (since 2003)
  • Co-organizer of the Audiovisual Translation Scenarios Euro-Conference, University of Copenhagen (2006)
  • Member of the Humanities Committee for Academic Communication at the University of Copenhagen (2007)
  • External reviewer for various international journals and anthologies of translation studies (2008)
  • Danish representative of the EU-funded DTV4All research project (2008-2010)

Publications (selection)

  • Subtitling - A New University Discipline . In Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Training, Talent and Experience, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamin Publishing Company 1992
  • Idioms in Corpora: Types, Tokens, Frequencies, and Lexicographical Implications . In Symposium on Lexicography VI. Tübingen, Max Niemayer Verlag 1994.
  • Subtitling: People translating People . In Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Insights, Aims, Visions. Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamin Publishing Company 1994
  • Typologies of translation. In An introduction to translation studies . Center for Translation Studies, Copenhagen 1997
  • Four Germanic Dictionaries of Anglicisms: When Definitions Speak Louder than Words . In Symposium on Lexicography X. Tübingen, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 2002
  • Subtitle: Visualizing Cinematic Dialogue . In writing and pictures in the film. Bielefeld, Aisthesis Verlag 2002
  • Subtitling against the current: Danish concepts, English minds . In New Trends in Audiovisual Translation. Bristol, Multilingual Matters 2009
  • Old Films, New Subtitles, More Anglicisms? In Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility at the Crossroads: Media for All 3. Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Gottlieb, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish translation scholar and subtitler
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark