{"id":25299,"date":"2026-02-04T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/de\/?post_type=eventkrake_artist&#038;p=25299"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:36:00","slug":"karen-witthuhn","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/karen-witthuhn\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Witthuhn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karen Witthuhn has over 25 years&#8217; experience translating novels, non-fiction books, theatre pieces and screenplays from English into German. After graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in Drama, Theatre, Film and TV, she worked as a director, dramaturge and production manager at German city theatres, in the independent theatre scene, and for international theatre festivals. Since 2010, she has worked as a freelance translator, running the literary translation agency Transfiction with her English-speaking colleague Lucy Jones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transfiction.eu\">www.transfiction.eu<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is particularly interested in the relationship between theatre and language transfer through surtitles and other forms of mediation. In 2011, she participated in both the Hieronymus programme for young translators and the Berlin Translator Workshop. She received working grants from the German Translation Fund in 2015 and 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Witthuhn has over 25 years&#8217; experience translating novels, non-fiction books, theatre pieces and screenplays from English into German. 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