{"id":14031,"date":"2026-07-24T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/?p=14031"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:34:21","slug":"festival-ubersetzen-weltretten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/2026\/07\/festival-ubersetzen-weltretten\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival \u00dcbersetzen &amp; Weltretten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/weltretten_motiv-quer_20260603_motiv2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/weltretten_motiv-quer_20260603_motiv2.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/weltretten_motiv-quer_20260603_motiv2-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September, the Weltleseb\u00fchne will present \u2018<em>\u00dcbersetzen &amp; Weltretten&#8217; (&#8216;Translating &amp; Worldsaving: Inciting Utopia in Dystopian Times<\/em>\u2019). Together with H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Thi\u00e9rard, I am curating this festival of literary translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The programme has recently been announced on the <a href=\"https:\/\/weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de\/programm\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de\/programm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">festival website<\/a>, and I am delighted to draw your attention to this exciting festival, which will happen at several days and feature 20 events across four venues in Berlin. We look forward to welcoming literature enthusiasts, sci-fi fans, publishers, translators, language bffs, bookworms, futurists and anyone interested in learning more about literary translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also a way to get involved in the festival: under \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de\/post-aus-utopia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de\/post-aus-utopia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post from Utopia<\/a>\u2019, you can submit your favourite utopia or dystopia, with or without a short quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival is funded primarily by a Berlin Senate Chancellery programme, and supported from the TOLEDO programme; the German Translators\u2019 Fund has also contributed, as have GLS Treuhand and Pro Helvetia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All details at <a href=\"https:\/\/weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weltretten.weltlesebuehne.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pressemitteilung_uebersetzen-und-weltretten_11062026.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Pressemitteilung_Uebersetzen und Weltretten_11.06.2026.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-08dd8663-547b-43d2-afc2-5f19e320d4a8\" href=\"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pressemitteilung_uebersetzen-und-weltretten_11062026.pdf\">Pressemitteilung_Uebersetzen und Weltretten_11.06.2026<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pressemitteilung_uebersetzen-und-weltretten_11062026.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-08dd8663-547b-43d2-afc2-5f19e320d4a8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating literary translation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[60,2258,141,194,228,2257,2089,370,1781,2256],"class_list":["post-14031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-production","category-translation","tag-berlin-en","tag-curating","tag-festival-en","tag-international-en","tag-literature-en","tag-saving","tag-translating","tag-translation-en","tag-weltlesebuhne","tag-weltretten"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031","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=14031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14037,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions\/14037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henningbochert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}