BERLIN, 6 December 2018: “Science First Hand” Lecture by Sofia Onufriv

We cordially invite you to our next “Science First Hand” lecture: Moderne ukrainische Literatur auf Deutsch: kurzer Exkurs, Tendenzen, die wichtigsten Akteure/ Modern Ukrainian literature in German: a brief overview, trends, key players (Lecture will be given in German)

Speaker: Sofia Onufriv

When: Thursday, 6 December 2018, 18:00 – 19:30 (entry from 17:30 onwards)

Where: Embassy of Ukraine, Albrechtstraße 26, 10117 Berlin

REGISTER by the 3rd of December at: berlin (at) ukrainet (dot) eu. At the registration please provide your name, position and employer/ place of study, city, in accordance with the security regulations of the embassy. Please have a valid photo-identity document to enter the venue.

Announcement download (in German)

Sofia Onufriv is interpreter and translator for Ukrainian. She studied German language and literature in Lviv, Ukraine. Since the beginning of the 90s, she has been engaged in various German-Ukrainian cultural projects, especially in the field of literature. She worked for several years for the Lviv city council, was a coordinator at the International Rennaissance Foundation and was Editor of the independent cultural magazine Ї. For the last 10 years she has been interpreting and translating from German to Ukrainian and vice versa in Berlin, organized travel and accompanied groups to Ukraine for the Berlin tour operator Ex Oriente Lux Reisen. Sofia is co-founder of the Association of Literary Translators from Ukrainian into German Translit e.V.

Lecture Summary

What modern Ukrainian authors are translated into German? What publishers from German-speaking countries show interest? Who are the translators and how is the popularization of Ukrainian literature in Germany going?

Announcement download (in German)

List of books and other publications translated into German (prepared by Sofia Onufriv)