Ursula Wienen

Ursula Wienen (* 1965 in Neuss ) is a German linguist and translation specialist. She teaches as a professor at the Technical University of Cologne (formerly Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Faculty for Information and Communication Sciences, Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication.

Life

After graduating from high school in Neuss in 1984, Wienen completed a commercial training at Thyssen in Düsseldorf, where she worked until 1989. In 1989 she began studying French and Spanish as a translator at the Technical University of Cologne, which she graduated with a diploma in 1993. For her achievements she was awarded the prize of the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ) for the best translator qualification of the FH 1993. She then studied Romance studies at the University of Cologne, specializing in French and Spanish, as well as general linguistics, and obtained her master's degree in 2002. From 1995 to 2002 she was also managing director of ProLogos Sprachendienste in Cologne. From 2002 to 2007 she worked as a research assistant at the chair for Romance Translation Studies at Saarland University , where she did her doctorate in 2006 with Alberto Gil on the subject of the translatability of marked forms of cohesion . In November 2007 he was appointed to the professorship “French Linguistics and Translation Studies with a Focus on Technical Translation” at the Technical University of Cologne. From 2008 to 2010 she also held teaching positions at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and from 2014 to 2015 at the University of Cologne (legal linguistics; Romance studies). In 2016, she completed her habilitation at Saarland University on the subject of translation of technical language in literary texts and obtained the Venia Legendi for Romance language and translation studies.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Translation of technical language in literary texts. A German-Romance comparison, Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2017
• For the translatability of marked forms of cohesion. A functional study of the continuum of split adverbials and split connectors in Spanish, French and German. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2006 (dissertation Saarland University).

Co-editorships

• with Barbara Ahrens , Silvia Hansen-Schirra , Monika Krein-Kühle, Michael Schreiber (Eds.): Colloquium on Translation Studies 3. Contributions to Translation and Interpreting Studies (Cologne-Germersheim). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2014 [Publications from the Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies FTSK at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim]
• with Laura Serge, Vahram Atayan (Ed.): Technical language (s) in Romania - development, use, translation. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2013 [Forum for Technical Language Research, 111].
• with Monika Krein-Kühle, Ralph Krüger (Ed.): Cologne Conference on Specialized Text Translation. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2013
• with Ahrens, Barbara / Hansen-Schirra, Silvia / Krein-Kühle, Monika / Schreiber, Michael (eds.): Colloquium on Translation Studies 2. Contributions to translation and interpreting studies (Cologne-Germersheim). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2012
• with Vahram Atayan (Ed.): Language - Rhetoric - Translation. Festschrift for Alberto Gil on his 60th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2012
• with Matthias Bauer , Rüdiger Pfeiffer-Rupp, Claudia Sasse (eds.): Language, literature, culture: Translatio delectat. Festschrift for Lothar Černý on his 65th birthday. LIT, Münster 2011
• with Vahram Atayan (Ed.): Ironie et un peu plus. Homage to Oswald Ducrot pour son 80ème anniversaire. [Files from the section “J'ironise donc je suis” of the 31st Romanist Day 2009 in Bonn.] Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2010
• with Alberto Gil (ed.): Multi-perspective issues of translation in Romania. Homage to Wolfram Wilss on his 80th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2007

Articles (selection)

• (2013): "'Ce sont, pour ainsi dire, des oiseaux imparfaits.' For the translation of linguistic strategies of popularization using the example of the use of 'pour ainsi dire' in Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux ", in: Sergo, Laura / Wienen, Ursula / Atayan, Vahram (ed.), Technical language (s) in Romania - Development, use, translation, Berlin: Frank & Timme [Forum for Technical Language Research 111], 287–306.
• (2012): "Syntax and translation in a religious context. On the use of 'but' in the first position in Romano Guardini ", in: Atayan, Vahram / Wienen, Ursula (ed.): Language - Rhetoric - Translation. Festschrift for Alberto Gil on his 60th birthday, Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Peter Lang, 399-410.
• (2011) "Irony and technical language", in: Bauer, Matthias / Sasse, Claudia / Pfeiffer-Rupp, Rüdiger / Wienen, Ursula (eds.): Language, literature, culture: Translatio delectat. Festschrift for Lothar Černý on his 65th birthday, Münster i. W .: LIT, 47-61.
• (2011): "Translational dimensions of technical language use in literary texts using the example of two novels by Jules Verne ", in: Lavric, Eva / Pöckl, Wolfgang (eds.): Comparatio delectat . Files of the VI. International workshop on Romance-German and intra-Romance language comparison, part 2, Frankfurt am Main, among others: Peter Lang, 815–829.
• (2010) "Irony in translation. Linguistic strategies of social criticism in B. Traven's novel 'The White Rose', in: Atayan, Vahram / Wienen, Ursula: Ironie et un peu plus . [Files of the section" J'ironise donc je suis "at the XXXI. Romance Day 2009 in Bonn], Frankfurt am Main and others: Peter Lang, 251–265.
• (2010): "La cohésion comme paramètre décisif de la traduction spécialisée: l'exemple de la reprise-commentaire (français - allemand), in: Dufter, Andreas / Jacob, Daniel (ed.), Syntaxe, structure informationnelle et organization du discours dans les langues romanes, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia: Peter Lang [Studia Romanica et Linguistica], pp. 215-227.
• (2009): "'Ici je suis homme, ici j'ose l'être.' Winged words from Goethe's 'Faust' in French translation ", in: Gramatzki, Susanne et al. (Ed.): Dividing line or bridging the gap? Translating as a literary and linguistic phenomenon . [Contributions to the 20th Forum for Young Romance Studies. Wuppertal, 2nd – 5th June 2004], Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, pp. 73–88.
• (2009): " Jean-Jacques Rousseau's letters on botany as reflected in their German translations. A contribution to the cultural character of specialist translation", in: Gil, Alberto / Schmeling, Manfred (ed.): Translate culture: To the science of translating in Franco-German Dialogue, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, pp. 55–69.
• (2007): "Text cohesion and information structure in specialist translation. On the implementation of the French Gérondif in German versions of the judgment of the European Court of Justice", in: Gil, Alberto / Wienen, Ursula (ed.), Multiperspectives of Translation in Romania . Homage to Wolfram Wilss on his 80th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 269-295.
• (2007): "'Voilà donc le noyau du barbet.' Frases célebres del Fausto en sus traducciones al francés ", in: Atayan, Vahram / Pirazzini, Daniela / Sergo, Laura / Thome, Gisela (ed.), Translated texts and types of texts in Romania . Files of the eponymous section of the XXVIII. Deutsche Romanistentags, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 159–177 (see also Saarland Working Papers in Linguistics (SWPL), Internet address: scidok.sulb.unisaarland.de/).

Articles in collaboration with other authors

• Girard de Pindray, Julie / Schröpf, Ramona / Wienen, Ursula (2015): "Technical language in dubbing and subtitling", in: Lavric, Eva / Pöckl, Wolfgang: Comparatio delectat II . Files of the VII. International Working Conference on Romance-German and intra-Romance language comparison, Innsbruck, 6. – 8. September 2012, part, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 751–765.
• Atayan, Vahram / Wienen, Ursula (2014): "Inferential cleft constructions in translation. French 'c'est que' in political texts", in: De Cesare, Anna-Maria (ed.), Frequency, forms and functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic. Contrastive, corpus-based studies , Berlin / Munich / Boston: de Gruyter Mouton [Trends in Linguistics], 345-375.
• Schmid, Judith / Wienen, Ursula (2014): "Technical language of mining and its translation into literary texts. Using the example of Emile Zola's 'Germinal'", in: Ahrens, Barbara / Hansen-Schirra, Silvia / Krein-Kühle, Monika / Schreiber, Michael / Wienen, Ursula (Ed.) (2014): Translation Studies Colloquium III. Contributions to translation and interpreting studies (Cologne-Germersheim) , Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Peter Lang (FTSK. Publications from the Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim) , pp. 45–61.
• Wienen, Ursula / Atayan, Vahram (2013): "Cohesion in the technical text: the inferential c'est-que construction in translations by Ferdinand de Saussure 's 'Cours de linguistique générale'", in: Krein-Kühle, Monika / Wienen, Ursula / Krüger, Ralph (Ed.), Cologne Conference on Specialized Text Translation, Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Peter Lang, 253-268.
• Atayan, Vahram / Gil, Alberto / Wienen, Ursula (2010): "'Saarbrücker Translation Bibliography' - un outil de recherche sur la traduction et l'interculturalité dans une perspective historique", in: Iliescu, Maria / Siller-Runggaldier, Heidi M ./Danler, Paul (ed.): Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes . Innsbruck, 3 - 8 September 2007, Tome 1, Berlin a. a .: De Gruyter, 509-518.
• Atayan, Vahram / Gil, Alberto / Wienen, Ursula (2007): "New electronic research options for historically oriented translation research", in: magazin research, Saarland University 2/2007, pp. 25-30.

Web links

• Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication (ITMK) , website Wienen
• Literature by and about Ursula Wienen in the catalog of the German National Library