Translating Cube: Six Sides of European Literature and Translation
15 – 18 April 2015
Ljubljana (PROGRAMME)
Poetic Transgressions
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
19:30h
Opening: Claudia Dathe and Tanja Žigon
Being finagled and checked
Linguistically the Slovenian and Ukrainian languages are similar. During the event, participants of the EU-funded project TransStar Europe will each read a sentence, a quote or a poem either in Slovenian or Ukrainian in order to discover the differences and similarities between the two languages.
Despite the linguistic proximity there are many historical and cultural differences between Slovenia and Ukraine which will be presented in the second part of the event: participants of the EU-funded project TransStar Europe will introduce things that do not exist anywhere else, which in the past were common and are almost unknown in their country of origin. In this way cultural and linguistic diversity is emphasized.
Facilitator: Lydia Nagel
Location: Hotel Pri Mraku
Thursday, 16 April 2015
9:30h
Welcome and official statement by the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gregor Perko
Prof. Dr. Schamma Schahadat, coordinator of the TransStar Europe and Translating Cube projects, University of Tübingen:
Opening ceremony of the photo exhibit entitled Camera Obscura – Places of Translation (the exhibit contains pinhole camera pictures and texts created within the framework of the project Translating Cube: Six Sides of European Literature and Translation)
Organisation: Alenka Lavrin and Tanja Žigon
Location: lobby of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana
10:00 – 11:00h
Being exchanged: the Slovenian book market and the advancement of translation
Katja Stergar, who is a consultant at the Slovenian Book Agency and the Slovenian representative at Traduki, will give the talk on the Slovenian book market. The event will present a variety of assistance programs that help to advance translation activities from foreign languages into Slovenian and the other way around.
Location: Modra soba (Blue Parlor), Faculty of Arts (5th floor)
16:00 – 16:30h
Being played: what do we consider as untranslatable?
Small pieces of paper with translation problems will be collected and pinned onto a big board; all that is confusing, untranslatable or ambivalent is welcome and will subsequently be discussed.
Facilitation: Tjaša Šket
Location: corridor of the Department of Translatology at the Faculty of Arts in the different groups
16:30 – 17:30h
Being checked: prospective translators in discussion with established colleagues
Budding translators from the EU-funded project TransStar Europe will gather at the big board with Ostap Slyvynsky, Jurko Prokhasko and Štefan Vevar where they will discuss translation problems that have been collected on that same board. They will talk about their experiences and specifically broach on issues that arise when translating poetry. Anja Wutej and Franziska Mazi will open the event by reading from their translation of two chansons of the famous Slovenian poet Svetlana Makarovič.
Facilitation: Anja Wutej
Location: corridor of the Department of Translatology at the Faculty of Arts
19:30h
Being searched and found: poetry today
The discussion with the author and translator Raoul Schrott will touch on his translation of Illias by Homer and classical Arabic love poetry as well as on his book Gehirn und Gedicht. Wie wir unsere Wirklichkeit konstruieren [Mind and Poetry: How We Construct Our Reality] (with Arthur Jacobs, 2011) and the short story Das Schweigende Kind [The Child That Kept Silent] (2012).
Participants from the TransStar Europe project will read their own translations of poetry by Raoul Schrott into both Slovenian and Ukrainian: Mykola Lipisivitskij, Valentyna Bilokrynytska, Olha Kravchuk, Olga-Daryna Drachuk, Ana Dejanović, Irena Smodiš, Karmen Schödel.
Facilitator: Daniela Kocmut
Location: Opera Bar
Following the discussion there will be a reception and a jazz concert by the band Lothar Krist B3 from Hannover.
Friday, 17 April 2015
10:00 – 11:00h
Being exchanged: career as a literary translator
Discussion with Stana Anželj, Tina Štrancar and Sebastian Walcher.
Participants of the TransStar Europe project will lead a discussion with three former students of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana who in a really short time have been able to establish themselves as literary translators in Slovenia. Topics covered in the discussion will be the terms and conditions for entry into as well as their experiences and working methods on the Slovenian market of literary translation. Also invited to the event are current students of the Department of Translatology.
Facilitation: Tina Štrancar
Location: Department of Translatology at the Faculty of Arts, room 31
11:30 – 13:00h
Being exchanged: dual talent
There will be a meeting with the publisher, author and literary translator Aleš Berger and the critic, cultural journalist and publisher Petra Vidali.
Aleš Berger is the publisher of the series entitled Kondor and nova lirika, the translator of J.L. Borges, Apollinaire, Char, Queneau, Prévert, Beckett, Lautréamont and also of the Asterix comic into Slovenian. He is the author of a number of works of prose and plays. Petra Vidali is the editor of the translation series at Litera publishing called babilon, where works of Genazino, Erpenbeck, Geiger, Mora and Haushofer amongst others were published. She works at Večer, a daily newspaper.
Facilitation: Irena Smodiš
Location: Department of Translatology at the Faculty of Arts, room 31
19:30h
Being read: life and death
The reading and discussion will be with the Austrian author and recipient of the Büchner prize, Josef Winkler, and the Ukrainian poet Ostap Slyvynsky. Roppongi, Wenn es soweit ist [When It’s Time] and Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus [I Will Tear Out my Eye Lash] was translated into Slovenian by Josef Winkler. Ostap Slyvynsky is a translator from Bulgarian, Polish, Macedonian and Belarusian into Ukrainian and the author of four volumes of poetry. They will speak about the existential challenges of life, about Christian upbringing and about the current situation in their countries.
Participants from the TransStar Europe project will read from their own translations of texts by Josef Winkler and Ostap Slyvynsky: Janko Trupej, Alenka Lavrin, Yuliya Mykytyuk.
Facilitation: Amalija Maček and Claudia Dathe
Location: Literary Translators Association (Društvo slovenskih književnih prevajalcev)
Saturday , 18 April 2015
10:00 – 12:00h
Being checked: in Ljubljana many literary paths cross
Literary and cultural city tour with the translator Donald Reindl. During the tour participants will also visit Trubarjeva street and the book stores which are located there (Sanje, Modrijan, Mladinska knjiga).
19:00h
Being read: literature and politics
An evening with Katja Perat, Miklavž Komelj and Natalka Sniadanko.
Katja Perat attracted attention with her first poetry volume Najboljši so padli [The Best Have Fallen] and she will present her new volume Davek na dodano vrednost [Value Added Tax]. Miklavž Komelj has translated Pessoa, Vallejo, Barnes and Pasolini and is the author of a great number of poetry volumes as well as scholarly articles on art history. Just recently he published his volume of poetry entitled Noč je abstraktnejša od n [The Night is More Abstract Than N]. Natalka Sniadanko has translated Milosz, Grass, Kafka and Herbert into Ukrainian and has established herself with her first work entitled Collection of Passions. Her new book Frau Müller Does Not Intend to Pay More will soon be published in German.
Participants of the TransStar Europe project will read their own translations of texts by authors who will be present at the event: Daniela Trieb and Lydia Nagel.
Facilitation: Ana Dejanović
Location: Hostel Celica, Gallery
Following the event will be a concert of the a capella group Jazzy.si
free admission
