Transletting 2026

On September 19 and 20, Transletting is a guest at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg on the Elbe. On the first day, a trio of tandems – Enrico Bordieri, Clara Schiltenwolf and Alice Muitoevoli Rugai – finalise their translations of each other’s texts. On September 20 at 15:30 the trio presents these translations and speaks about the processes and approaches behind them, alongside a wider conversation on Transletting’s ideas about the many ways of translating and reading across languages, mastered and non-mastered. With Susanna Guidi and Konstantin Schmidtbauer for Transletting, and with Eliana Kirkcaldy, current artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, who initiated the event.

In cooperation with Künstlerhaus Lauenburg and Literaturhaus Hamburg.

Transletting returns to New York for a third time. The edition opens at Princeton on September 15, runs through the last week of September in the city and at Bard College, and closes with a reading at the beginning of October.

September 15, Princeton
A double workshop with the poet Michael Lentz and Transletting on Chora, his collection of poems (S. Fischer, 2023). Transletting brings interlinear versions of a selection of poems, and beside them creative translations of the same poems, made with homophonic translation, multilingualism, erasure and visual transformation. Participants work on an excerpt of their own during the session. Any approach to translation is welcome, and any level of German. 10:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., New South Building, Room 602, in the Creative Writing program suite. Hosted by Dagmara Kraus with the German Department and the Lewis Center for the Arts. Free and open to all Princeton students.

September 23, Manhattan
Transletting Walk at 3 p.m., starting at the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial at the entrance to Riverside Park, West 72nd Street at Riverside Drive. Readers read aloud in many languages, often at the same time, and anyone who comes along can join in, read, translate or simply listen. Bring your own texts if you like. The walk is free, registration runs through Transletting or the Goethe-Institut New York.
At 6 p.m. the day continues at the Casa Hispánica at Columbia University, 612 West 116th Street, with a workshop that returns to the texts of the afternoon: short prepared pieces, prompts for translating together, and an open stage for what came out of the walk or for whatever people bring with them. There will be free pizza.

September 27 to 29, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Three days at Bard, with a workshop, a reading held together in many languages, and explorations in the Hannah Arendt Personal Library at the Stevenson Library, some 4,000 volumes from the library of Hannah Arendt, more than 900 of them carrying her marginal notes.

Early October, New York
A further reading. Place and date will follow.

Transletting joins ALTA49, the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront.

Generation Station: Beyond and Between Language – a workshop. Join the Transletting collective in looking at how one text can spawn many translations, and how creative translation opens up new ways of looking at literary translation. With one text as the centrepiece, participants first tackle it in the creative mode of their preference – collage, homophonic translation, erasure. The literary translation is then revealed, and participants compare their own versions against it, observing what each has attended to. What is gained when writers exchange differing translations of the same text, and what can be learned about a text through how others experience it, regardless of the original language?

Led by Samuel Haecker and Daniela Ordonez Delgado. Conference registration is open through October 7, 2026.

From November 13 to 15, Transletting is in Brixen / Bressanone at the invitation of ZeLT. Participants arrive on the afternoon of November 13 and meet the ZeLT team and the ZeLTlectio class working on Andrea Zanzotto over the evening.

November 14 opens at 09:00 with a joint welcome of the ZeLTlectio class and Transletting. Through the day a room at the Cusanus Academy is given over to preparing, reading and translating, and stays open to anyone who would like to join or simply watch. The evening is held as ZeLTfesta – ZeLTlectio x Transletting: after a short address marking five years of ZeLT, Transletting has an hour to present its work, with readings from the tandems and time given to the differing approaches to translation they took. The Ladin language class then presents its poetry and its anthology, before the evening opens out into the buffet.

November 15 is left calm, for the journey home.

For September 2027, Transletting is preparing events and tandems in 日本 and is looking for partners on the ground.

Collaborations in Colombia and Latin America are planned for the second half of 2027 and the beginning of 2028.