{"id":12891,"date":"2023-05-17T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2025-06-15T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T10:24:53","slug":"body-w-o-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/2023\/05\/body-w-o-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"body w\/o borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On April 20 and 21, 2023, \u00d6zlem D\u00fcndar’s play AN GRENZEN was read in my English translation (as body w\/o borders<\/em>) by Sanjana Taskar. The reading was directed by Joseph Megel, who has accompanied the development of the play and the translation with me and \u00d6zlem for a year and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, questions arose about the information that an American audience was missing from this piece about xenophobic and right-wing violence in Germany. As early as 2022, during a seminar in Berlin, we found that even a young German audience was unable to connect with the arson attacks of the 1990s and even with the group that called themselves NSU. This led \u00d6zlem to include some information specifically about the recruitment agreements, but also a list of victims from the Antonio Amadeo Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the reading and rehearsals served as a welcome, rare opportunity for me to review translation decisions. I was able to iron out many weaknesses with Sanjana’s and Joseph’s help. This is a chance we theatre translators don’t get very often before the plays are put on stage. With FL\u00c4CHENBRAND (WILDFIRE ROAD) by Eve Leigh, for example, I was only able to do this at the premiere at Theater Bonn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the text was read in Chapel Hill as part of the Process Series<\/a>, we also solicited feedback from the audience, who described how the text affected them. The Process Series, as the name suggests, is the ideal forum for the development of texts, including translated texts. The audience receives questionnaires, the results of which are passed on to the authors. \u00d6zlem has received these comments as well. Her text is extremely demanding, rhythm-oriented and does not let the audience off the leash for a second with regard to its weighty topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m excited about working with this text further and about the prospects of sending it on the road in the U.S. and the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reading of \u00d6zlem D\u00fcndar’s play in Chapel Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63,83,110,2099,174,200,1635,2103,279,2119,2120,362,370,1646],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-translation","tag-bochert-en","tag-chapel-hill","tag-drama-en","tag-dundar","tag-henning-en","tag-joseph","tag-megel","tag-ozlem","tag-play","tag-sanjana","tag-taskar","tag-theatre-en","tag-translation-en","tag-unc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13714,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/13714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}