For the musical’s Hamburg premiere, a team wrestled with language and cultural differences to bring the story alive for a new audience.
Tag: Translation and Interpreters
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Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate
A direct transfer of words was never going to work for such a complex show. So the team involved got creative.
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Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70
A regular nominee for the Nobel, his books were as popular as they were lauded, filled with themes of mystery, betrayal and the moral weight of the past.
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Foreign Films, English Titles and the Dilemma Distributors Face
Leave as is? Translate? Change altogether? A movie’s success doesn’t depend entirely on what we call it, but it can have a big effect.
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Salman Rushdie Attack Recalls Murder of His Japanese Translator
Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated “The Satanic Verses,” was fatally stabbed at a university near Tokyo where he taught Islamic culture. The crime remains unsolved.