I am a translator and copy-editor of academic texts and popular publications with over a decade of experience working both with major institutions and individual authors primarily across Europe and North America.
I specialise in translations from German to English and in copy-editing English-language texts, and am proficient in both British and American styles. I offer handcrafted and individualised translation and copy-editing services with the use of traditional tools such as dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopaedias, bibliographies, and reference works. When translating and copy-editing, I pay attention to voice, style, idiom, register, target audience, and the broader linguistic, cultural, and academic context of origin and destination for the text in question. Depending on the wishes and needs of the client, I check not just for linguistic, grammatical, and stylistic accuracy, but also for structure, logical consistency, factual accuracy, and accuracy of sources and references.
I have to date translated and copy-edited a large volume of publications and other text formats, including:
• monographs
• edited collections
• peer-reviewed articles and essays
• popular magazine and news publications
• funding applications
• museum exhibitions and catalogues
• institutional website content
I have translated and copy-edited texts from all over the world and covering a wide variety of topics, but with a particular concentration on the following thematic areas:
• Austrian, German, European, and North American history
• Jewish and Holocaust studies
• histories of prejudice, war, and genocide
• historical and cultural memory discourses
• art, literature, and music
• postcolonial theory
• contemporary debates about colonialism, racism, and slavery
• migration history and social studies of integration and exclusion
My translations have appeared with major international presses, including:
• Berghahn
• Brill
• Central European University Press
• Metropol-Verlag
• Routledge
• Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
and in leading scholarly journals including:
• Central European History
• Contemporary Austrian Studies
• Dubnow Institute Yearbook
• Journal of Austrian Studies
• Journal of Contemporary History
• Journal of Holocaust Research
• Zeitgeschichte
I have worked with a wide range of international academic and public institutions over the years, including:
• Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
• Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (Media, PA)
• Comenius University (Bratislava)
• Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague)
• Folk Life Museum (Graz)
• Fritz Bauer Institute (Frankfurt)
• House of Austrian History (Vienna)
• Institute for Historical Social Studies (Vienna)
• Institute for Jewish History in Austria (St. Pölten)
• Jewish Museum of Franken (Fürth)
• Jewish Museum of Vienna
• Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (Leipzig)
• Medical University of Vienna
• Moses Mendelssohn Center (Potsdam)
• University of Basel
• University of Graz
• University of Innsbruck
• University of Leipzig
• University of Vienna
• Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) / Simon Wiesenthal Museum
• Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education (Haifa)
The individuals whose work I have translated include such renowned scholars as Moritz Csáky, Saul Friedländer, Dirk Rupnow, Heidemarie Uhl, and Ruth Wodak.
Below you can find a selection of translated publications and museum exhibitions, including samples of published open-access translations.
A Note on the Use of Artificial Intelligence or AI
At a time when an increasing number of institutions and individuals are resorting to questionable translations offered by Large Language Models (LLMs, generally called AI), I am proud to offer handcrafted and individualised translation and copy-editing services using exclusively traditional tools and methods. AI offers fast one-to-one translations of texts, but these are notoriously wooden, formulaic, and prone to egregious errors in quality and content. While texts professionally translated and copy-edited by qualified and experienced humans may take a little longer to complete, they will always remain superior in quality, style, and accuracy to AI-generated texts.
Please contact me if you are interested in soliciting my services for translation or copy-editing.
Translation + Editing
Selection of Translated Publications
Monographs and Edited Collections
Florian Wenninger (ed.): Switchboard of Terror: On the History of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna 1938–1945 (Vienna: Institut für Historische Sozialforschung, 2026).
Oliver Rathkolb, Bertrand Perz, and Sybille Steinbacher (eds.): PORR AG and its Subsidiaries during the National Socialist Era (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2025). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Karin Böhm and Edith Blaschitz (eds.): Nothing Left to See? Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf – A Topographic Survey (Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz, 2024).
Fritz Bauer Institute (ed.): I.G. Farben and the Buna-Monowitz Concentration Camp: Economy and Politics under National Socialism (Frankfurt am Main: Fritz Bauer Institute, 2023). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Essays
Béla Rásky: “Fabricating a Border: The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921 and the Delineation of Burgenland”, in: Sergiusz Bober (ed.), Post-World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies: Exploring the Right of Self-Determination (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2024).
Moritz Csáky: “Habsburg Central Europe: A Culturally Heterogeneous and Polysemous Region”, in: PaRDeS: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany 23 (2023). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Philipp Rohrbach: “Life Stories of Children of Black US Occupation Soldiers and Austrian Women”, in: Journal of Austrian Studies 56/4 (Winter 2023).
Béla Rásky: “No Silence, but Whispers: Postwar Exhibitions on Nazi Crimes and the Shoah in Austria, 1945–1949”, in: Journal of Holocaust Research 37/4 (2023).
Dirk Rupnow: “‘Migration Background’ versus ‘Nazi Background’: (German) Debates on Post-Nazism, Post-Migration, and Postcolonialism”, in: Central European History 56/2 (2023). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Jan Gerber, Philipp Graf & Anna Pollmann, “Introduction”, in: Jan Gerber, Philipp Graf & Anna Pollmann (eds.), Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein: Europa nach dem Holocaust (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022).
Saul Friedländer: “A Fundamentally Singular Crime”, in: Journal of Holocaust Research 36/1 (2022).
Benjamin Grilj: “Multigenerational Experiences of Flight: The Case of Jewish Refugees from Galicia and Bukovina in Vienna and Lower Austria, 1918–1941”, in: Journal of Holocaust Research 35/3 (2021).
Lukas Böckmann: “Revolutionary Eschatology: The Argentine Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo and the Secularization of Religious Traditions”, in: Raanan Rein and David Sheinin (eds.): Armed Jews in the Americas (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
Eveline Brugger: “Soli duci hic casus reservabitur? The Practicalities of Ducal Rule over the Jews in Medieval Austria”, in: Christoph Cluse & Jörg Müller (eds.): Medieval Ashkenaz: Papers in Honour of Alfred Haverkamp, held at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 2017 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021).
“Sabeth Buchmann und Dani Gal – Ein Gespräch”, in: S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation 8/1 (2021). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Ingrid Bauer: “Post-World War II Interracial Relationships: Mothers of Black Occupation Children and Prejudices in White Societies – Austria in Comparative Perspective”, in: Zeitgeschichte 48/1 (2021).
Philipp Rohrbach: “‘This Has Finally Freed the Welfare Agency from a Considerable Burden’: The Adoption of Black Austrian Occupation Children in the USA”, in: Zeitgeschichte 48/1 (2021).
Peter Pirker: “The Victim Myth Revisited: The Politics of History in Austria up until the Waldheim Affair”, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies 29 (2020). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Thomas Riegler: “The Spy behind the Third Man”, in: Journal of Austrian-American History 4 (2020). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Maja Suderland and Michaela Christ: “National Socialism as a Research Topic in German-Language Sociology: Thoughts on a Hesitant Development”, in: Journal of Holocaust Research 33/3 (2019).
Dirk Rupnow: “A Review of the Memory Year 2018”, in Contemporary Austrian Studies 28 (2019).
Elisabeth Gallas and Philipp Graf: “Conceptual Remarks”, in: Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook 16 (2019).
Marija Vulesica: “Yugoslavia as a Hub for Migration in the 1930s: Local Zionist Networks and Aid Efforts for Jewish Refugees”, in: Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook 16 (2019).
Peter Pirker, Magnus Koch, and Johannes Kramer: “Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna”, in: Jörg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger (eds.): Views of Violence: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials (New York: Berghahn, 2019).
Dieter Stiefel: “Swarovski and the National Socialist Era: A Research Report”, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies 27 (2018).
Dirk Rupnow: “The History and Memory of Migration in Post-War Austria: Current Trends and Future Challenges”, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies 26 (2017).
Anne Unterwurzacher: “‘The Other Colleagues:’ Labor Migration at the Glanzstoff-Fabrik in St. Pölten from 1962 to 1975”, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies 26 (2017).
Articles for the Online Project (Hi)stories of the German-Jewish Diaspora
David Jünger, “Divided Experiences: Joachim Prinz, the Jewish Struggle against Racism in the United States, and the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’ on 28 August 1963” (2026). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
David Jünger, “Joachim Prinz (1902–1988)” (2026). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Alexander Weidle, “Two out of 10,000: The Farnbacher Twins from Augsburg and the ‘Kindertransports’ to the United Kingdom” (2026). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Marlen Eckl, “From Gross-Breesen to Rolândia: Refuge and New Beginnings in the Brazilian Outback” (2026). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Felix Römer, “Objects of Memory: The Heyd(t) Family’s Rosenthal Coffee Set” (2026). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Ita Heinze-Greenberg, “Architectural Object: The Schocken Library as Transposed Memory of German-Jewish Erudition in Jerusalem” (2026). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Rebecca Schwoch, “Georg Lemchen (1902–1971)” (2025). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Wiebke Zeil, “Gross-Breesen Letter 18, April 49: Insights into the Correspondence of a Transnational Network” (2025). This is an open-access publication and you can read the translation here
Exhibition Catalogues
Daniela Pscheiden and Dinah Ehrenfreund-Michler (eds.): Alles vergessen / Everything Forgotten (Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna / Jewish Museum Hohenems, 2026) [co-translator].
Sabine Apostolo, Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, and Agnes Meisinger (eds.): Die Dritte Generation: Der Holocaust im familiären Gedächtnis / The Third Generation: The Holocaust in Family Memory (Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna, 2024) [co-translator].
Caitlin Gura and Daniela Pscheiden (eds.): Wiener Nostalgie: Vernetzte Erinnerungen an Emil Singer / Viennese Nostalgia: Connected Memories of Emil Singer (Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna, 2024).
Jüdisches Museum Franken (ed.): Arnold Dreyblatt – Lesezeichen: Jakob Wassermann, Deutscher und Jude / Arnold Dreyblatt – Bookmarks: Jakob Wassermann, German and Jew (Fürth: Jüdisches Museum Franken, 2023).
Monika Sommer (ed.): Hitler entsorgen: Vom Keller ins Museum / Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, into the Museum (Vienna: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, 2021) [co-translator].
Birgit Johler and Monika Sommer (eds.): Nicht mehr verschüttet: Jüdisch-österreichische Geschichte in der Wiener Malzgasse / Buried No Longer: Jewish-Austrian History in Vienna’s Malzgasse (Vienna: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, 2021) [co-translator].
Selection of Translated Museum Exhibitions
Berlin/Jerusalem: Schockens Gärten / Berlin/Jerusalem: Schocken’s Gardens, special exhibition at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig (2026).
Geraubte Heiligkeit – Judaica aus Niederösterreich / Stolen Sanctity – Judaica from Lower Austria, special exhibition at the Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten (2026).
Alles vergessen / Everything Forgotten, special exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna / Jewish Museum Hohenems (2026) [co-translator].
“Ich bin ein Österreicher!” Der Fotograf Kurt Bardos (1914 Brünn – 1944 letzte Spur Auschwitz) / “I am an Austrian!” The Photographer Kurt Bardos (1914 Brünn/Brno – 1944 last trace in Auschwitz), special exhibition at the Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten (2025).
Fritz Bauer: District Attorney – Prosecuting Nazi Crimes, special exhibition of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main (2024).
Permanent exhibition of the Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten (2024).
Who Cares? Jewish Responses to Suffering, special exhibition of the Jewish Museum Vienna (2024).
Wiener Nostalgie: Vernetzte Erinnerungen an Emil Singer / Viennese Nostalgia: Connected Memories of Emil Singer, special exhibition of the Jewish Museum Vienna (2024).
Permanent exhibition in the Tahara House at the Jewish cemetery in Währing, Vienna (2023).
Hitler entsorgen: Vom Keller ins Museum / Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, into the Museum, special exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte Österreich (2021) [co-translator].
Nicht mehr verschüttet: Jüdisch-österreichische Geschichte in der Wiener Malzgasse / Buried No Longer: Jewish-Austrian History in Vienna’s Malzgasse, special exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte Österreich (2021) [co-translator].
Permanent exhibition of the Folk Life Museum in Graz (2021).
Steiermark Schau: Wie es ist / Showing Styria: How It Is, special exhibition at the Folk Life Museum in Graz (2021).
Im Bett: Episoden einer Zuflucht / In Bed: Episodes of a Refuge, special exhibition at the Folk Life Museum in Graz (2017).
Die Zukunft des Erinnerns: Museum Simon Wiesenthal / The Future of Memory: Museum Simon Wiesenthal, permanent exhibition of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2017).
Permanent exhibition of the Silent Night Museum at the Pflegerschlössl in Wagrain (2017)