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TRANSLATIONS

CURRENT TRANSLATION PROJECTS

​→ → → Roll Back the Mountains [Nimm die Alpen weg] by Ralph Tharayil
will be published by
Seagull Books in Winter 2027.

 

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Please contact me for information regarding translations from:​​​​

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→ → → So, in etwa, ist es geschehen [This Is Kinda How It All Went Down...] (2026) by Sharon Dodua Otoo

→ → → Keinheimisch [I̶n̶d̶i̶g̶e̶n̶o̶u̶s̶] (2025) by Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

→ → → Dinosaurierkind [Dinosaur Child] (2025) by Maryam Aras

→ → → Das Verschwinden der Welt [The Disappearing World] (2024)
and 
Wovon wir träumen [What We Dream Of] by Lin Hierse (2022)

→ → → Dodos auf der Flucht [Dodos on the Run] by Mikael Vogel (2018)

→ → → Vater unser in Lima [Our Father in Lima] by José F.A. Oliver (2018).

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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→ → → Order Now: Djinns (US) / Djinns (UK)

Dschinns by Fatma Aydemir (2022) / University of Wisconsin Press [US] / Peirene Press [UK] (2024)!

 

→ → → Order Now: Where the Poplars Grow 

by Irina Unruh and Viktoria Morasch (2024) / Slanted

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→ → → Order Now: Ada's Room (US) / Ada's Realm (UK)

Adas Raum by Sharon Dodua Otoo (2021) / Riverhead Books [US] / MacLehose Press [UK] (2023)!

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→ → → Order Now: De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century 
Desintegriert Euch! by Max Czollek (2018) / Restless Books (2023)!

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→ → → Order Now: Your Homeland is Our Nightmare: An Antifascist Essay Collection

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (2019) / Literarische Diverse (2022)!

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→ → →Read online: Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare edited by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (2019) / published with Transit Journal (2021)!

Recently, several collections featuring my translations have been published in printed form.

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"KTV Girl" by Lin Hierse

Berlin Babel, ed. Katy Derbyshire

V&Q Books, Berlin, 2026.
 

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Nazi-German in 22 Lessons by Walter Trier, Max Czollek, and Antje M. Warthorst

Favoriten Presse, Berlin, 2022.​

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"Of Return" by Max Czollek in

Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow, Eds. Nicolaus Schafhausen and Mirjam Zadoff

Hirmer Publishers, Munich, 2021.

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"מאור עיניים" by Max Czollek in 

Yael Bartana: The Book of Malka Germania [Yael Bartana. Das Buch der Malka Germania]

Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 2021

as featured in the exhibition "Redemption Now" at the Jewish Museum Berlin

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"The Golden Toads," "The Steller's Sea Cow," "The Labrador Duck," and "The Thylacine" by Mikael Vogel in

Europe in Poems: The Versopolis Anthology, ed. Patrick McGuinness

Arc Publications, Todmorden, UK, 2020

in cooperation with Versopolis Poetry

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The following is a (mostly) chronological list of published translation projects I've been a part of.

Follow links to the individual texts. Further below, please find another chronological list of published works not-available online, with links to additional publishing information where available.

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Public Seminar:
Genocide


English Translation

Windows

by Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

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An Excerpt from Keinheimisch​

Public Seminar

Published courtesy of Ullstein Verlag

September 10, 2026​

New Books in german:
Fiction

English Translation

An Excerpt from So, in etwa, ist es geschehen

by Sharon Dodua Otoo

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New Books in German

Published courtesty of S. Fischer Verlag

Fall 2026

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New Books in German:
fiction


English Translation

The Disappearing World

by Lin Hierse

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An Excerpt from Das Verschwinden der Welt

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New Books in German

Published courtesy of Piper Verlag

Fall 2024

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EUROPE NOW:
Decolonizing European Memory Cultures

English Translation

An Excerpt from Ada's Realm

by Sharon Dodua Otoo

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Europe Now Journal

February 21, 2023

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Columbia Journal:
Translation

English Translation

"Chapter 1: Hüseyin"

from Dschinns

by Fatma Aydemir

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Columbia Journal

February 21, 2022

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Asymptote Journal:
nonfiction


English Translation

Alternatives for Germans

by Max Czollek

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An Excerpt from De-Integrate: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century

Asymptote Journal

Published curtesy of Restless Books

January 19, 2023

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UC Berkeley:
TRANSIT JOURNAL 

Guest Editor and English Translation

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SAND Journal:
One Poem, Two Translations

English Translation

Two Çayspoons of Şekir

by Keça Filankes

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Translated in tandem with Dr. Didem Uca

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Sand Journal

in cooperation with ALTA

and Literarische Diverse

September 28, 2021

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Versopolis Poetry:
Poets 

English Translation

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UC BERKELEY:
TRANSIT Journal


Co-Editor and English Translation

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Versopolis Poetry:
Poets 

English Translation

8 Selected Poems from Grenzwerte

by Max Czollek

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Versopolis Poetry

June 2021

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UC BERKELEY:
TRANSIT Journal

English Translation
(co-translator with Aaron Carpenter)

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Versopolis Poetry:
Festival of Hope 2

Subtitles, English Translation

Hausach LeseLenz Reading

by Twelve Authors

March 4, 2021

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Poems from Marie T. Martin's Rückruf

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Yves Noir Photographie:
Agreement


English Translation

Agreement

by Katharina J. Ferner

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Deutscher Ausgangstext

April 2021

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S. Fischer Verlag:

Sample Translation

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English Translation

Ada's Realm

by Sharon Dodua Otoo

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Read the sample translation here!

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Adas Raum

February 24, 2021

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MAXIM GORKI THEATER:

Tage der jüdisch-muslimischen Leitkultur​

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Subtitles, English Translation

Ensemble Modern:

Beschenkt: Ceremony

40 Years of Ensemble Modern

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Speech Subtitles, English Translation

Happy New Ears!

A Speech in 8 Acts

by Ilija Trojanow

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Ensemble Modern
December 9, 2020

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CLIMATE FICTION FESTIVAL:

Literaturhaus Berlin

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English Translation

Time Capsule 41:
Requiem for the Extinct Species

Video of the World Premier Performance

by Mikael Vogel
and Jana Irmert

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For more translations

and information see:

Writer's Profile for the Festival

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December 4, 2020

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renk.MAGAZIN

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English Translation

Between History and
Overcoming the Present

An Interview with Max Czollek
by Mahir Türkmen

(November 17, 2020)

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Deutscher Ausgangstext
November 16, 2020

Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

To (Mutually) Aid is Human

by Ilija Trojanow

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Versopolis Poetry
October 27, 2020

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Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

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Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

We Don't Fall Gently

by Deniz Utlu

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Versopolis Poetry
October 27, 2020

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Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

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ZEIT ONLINE

ZEIT CAMPUS — Generation Y

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English Translation

Max Czollek: "None of Us

Want to Be Killed"

Interview by Sara Tomšić

(September 3, 2020)

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Deutscher Ausgangstext

August 30, 2020

Read My World

With Love - Online Edition

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English Translation

Letter from Berlin

by Max Czollek

Art by Anja Nolte

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Read My World

April 2020

Jewish Currents:

Poetry

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Introduction and English Translation

Of Return

by Max Czollek

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Jewish Currents

April 2020

TAGREE

PHOTOGRAPHY

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English Translation

Lost

by Katharina J. Ferner

Photography by Yves Noir

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Deutscher Ausgangstext und Ausstellung

April 2020

Spiegel Online:

International. Opinion.

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English Translation

After Hanau:
Crying into the Void

by Deniz Utlu

(February 25, 2020)

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Deutscher Ausgangstext

February 22, 2020

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Spiegel Online:

International. Opinion.

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English Translation

The Attack in Halle:
This isn't a Drill, It's the Catastrophe

by Max Czollek

(October 11, 2019)

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Deutscher Ausgangstext

October 10, 2019

Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

Word Paper Sound

by Anja Kampmann

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Versopolis Poetry
July 4, 2019

Week of the Festival:

Hausacher LeseLenz

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Guest Editor and English Translation

UC BERKELEY:

TRANSIT Journal

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Introduction and English Translation

Versopolis Poetry:

Poets

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English Translation

UC BERKELEY:

TRANSIT Journal

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Introduction and English Translation

Identification

by Kurt Tucholsky

a.k.a. Peter Panter

(June 23, 1920)

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11.1"Reflections on (a)
Changing Europe"

eScholarship Publishing
University of California

April 2017

UC BERKELEY:

TRANSIT Journal

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Introduction and English Translation

The Border

by Kurt Tucholsky

a.k.a. Peter Panter

(June 27, 1920)

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11.1"Reflections on (a)
Changing Europe"

eScholarship Publishing
University of California

April 2017

UC BERKELEY:

Multicultural Germany project

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English Translation

UC BERKELEY:

TRANSIT Journal

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Introduction and English Translation

UC BERKELEY:

TRANSIT Journal

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English Translation

  • "The Evening After My Death" by Maarten Inghels, vom poetischen w:ort - wo die Lyrik zuhause ist [festival band], 21. Hausacher LeseLenz, 2018.
     

  • "Europe, Spatiotemporal Orientation, and the Imperial" by Bärbel Frischmann, pp 171-3, SpaceTime of the Imperial, Ed. by  Holt Meyer / Susanne Rau / Katharina Waldner, DeGruyter, 2017.
     

  • "On Living Photography and the Film Drama" by Gustav Melcher (1909), [co-transl. with Alex H. Bush], pp. 17-9;

    "How I Came to Cinema" by Leni Riefenstahl (1926), pp. 134-5;

    "The Benefits of War for the Cinema" by Edgar Költsch (1914), pp. 266;

    "Living Shadows" by Lotte Reiniger (1929), pp. 470-1;

    "A Glance into the Future" by Frank Warschauer (1930), pp. 598-9; The Promise of Cinema; Ed. by Anton Kaes / Nicholas Baer / Michael Cowan; University of California Press; 2016.

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