Join us online for these workshops aimed at emerging and established literary translators. The workshops are organised by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow and hosted by Annie Rutherford and Rebecca DeWald. Meet fellow translators to discuss your work and the joys and issues related to (literary) translation.
We are delighted that Karen Leeder will be joining us as guest speaker for this online discussion hosted by Annie Rutherford. Karen is a highly acclaimed translator and one of the most influential international scholars in the field of modern and contemporary German poetry.
Karen Leeder is a writer, scholar, and translator of contemporary German literature. She has received many accolades for her translations, most recently the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for her English translation of Psyche Running: Selected Poems 2005–2022 by renowned German poet Durs Grünbein. She was also awarded the the Stephen Spender Prize for Childhood in the Diorama by Durs Grünbein, the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation for Grünbein’s The Doctrine of Photography, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Grünbein’s Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City. Her work has also been recognised with an American PEN/Heim award for her translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s Thick of It and a second Schlegel-Tieck Prize for All Under One Roof by Evelyn Schlag. Leeder is the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. In 2023, she began a three-year Einstein Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin for her project AfterWords.
REGISTRATION
If you haven’t been to Stammtisch before, do sign up via Eventbrite – ideally at least 3 working days prior to the event, so that we can include you in the mailing list and send you the texts being discussed and the Zoom Link. Those already on the mailing list do not have to register again.
The events are organised by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow and are free to attend.
Further information can be found on the Goethe-Institut Glasgow events page.
Picture credit: André Wirsig
