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Lilian Friedberg


TRANSLATES: German

Lilian Friedberg is a translator of German-Jewish-Native-American descent with ten years’ experience living in Germany and a Ph.D. in German. She is also a performing artist and arts educator specializing in the musical traditions of the people of Guinea, West Africa. She has been translating professionally since 1984 in a variety of fields ranging from computer technology to German history, African cultural traditions, German-Jewish literature and above all Austrian women writers.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Currently working on: a compilation of archival documentary material from the Nazi era (original texts by Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, etc.) and a collaboration with Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek to complete translations of her most recent works (Bambiland, Babel, and others).

Translations

Sourcebook of Nazi Culture, Sander Gilman and Anson Rabinbach, eds. University of California Press, forthcoming.

Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader. Green Integer, 2005.

Timetables of History, Bernard Grun, ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 2005.

"Rosamunde," Elfriede Jelinek, The Power of Language. Austrian Cultural Forum, 2005.

"Music and Fear: Some Thoughts on Olga Neuwirth’s "Islands,'" Elfriede Jelinek, The Power of Language. Austrian Cultural Forum, 2005.

"Slicing Her Own Slit in Space: On Valie Export’s Video Installations," Elfriede Jelinek, The Power of Language. Austrian Cultural Forum, 2005.

"To Die for Berlin," Ingeborg Bachmann, If We Have the Word. Ariadne Press, 2004.

"The Germanization of the Holocaust," A Jew in the New GermanySelected Writings by Henryk Broder. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

"Tagar and the Teepee Family," A Jew in the New GermanySelected Writings by Henryk Broder. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

"Just in Time: A Catholic Casuist on the Front in the War on Terror," A Jew in the New GermanySelected Writings, Henryk Broder. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Three Radio Plays by Ingeborg Bachmann. Ariadne Press, 1999.

The Goddess and Her Heros, Heide Goettner-Abendroth. Anthony Publishing, 1995.







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