Kathrin Razum

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Kathrin Razum (born March 12, 1964 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German translator .

Short biography

Kathrin Razum studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where she obtained a master's degree in English and history , and at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , USA.

During her academic training she worked as a freelance editor at Palmyra Verlag in Heidelberg; through this activity she came to translate. She has been working full-time as a freelance literary translator and editor since the mid-1990s. The authors she has translated include Susan Sontag , Edna O'Brien , VS Naipaul , Vikram Chandra , TC Boyle , Hilary Mantel, and Laird Hunt. Kathrin Razum translates for Hanser Verlag, Hoffmann & Campe, btb, dtv, Nagel & Kimche, Steidl and Diogenes, among others. In addition to her work as a translator, she was a lecturer at the English Department at the University of Heidelberg from 1995 to 2000, and from 1997 to 2008 editor of the magazine Translate , a specialist journal of the VdÜ ( Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works ).

Kathrin Razum lives in Heidelberg .

Web links

  • Razum in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not to be confused with Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, who has a PhD in German studies in the Duden editorial office in Berlin.
  2. ↑ Source ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Freiburg Literature Office @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturbuero-freiburg.de
  3. ↑ List of works at book-info.com
personal data
SURNAME Razum, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main