Creative Translations 2023

This year our undergraduate project members again worked on producing creative translations inspired by the White Rose pamphlets and the history of the White Rose. You can see some of their incredible and thought-provoking works below. We’ll be updating this page over the next couple of months as the finishing touches are put to all …

Print Workshop at the Bodleian

On Friday 3 February 2023, student and academic members of the White Rose Project joined Dr Alexandra Franklin at the Bodleian Library’s Bibliographical Press. The students selected phrases from the White Rose leaflets – in German and English – and experimented with printing them using some of the historical hand-presses. Slogans included: ‘Ein Verbrechen kann …

International Translation Day

On International Translation Day 2022, we’re celebrating the work of all the White Rose Project student translators who’ve worked so hard to bring the White Rose history to audiences beyond German-speakers! Translation work with undergraduate students is at the heart of the White Rose Project. This includes translation between German and English, and ‘creative translation’, …

Creative Translations – ‘Wortwahl’ by Anna Cooper

This year, the White Rose Translation Project explored ‘creative translation’, adapting the White Rose resistance pamphlets into new works, including poetry, prose, drama, and artwork. The Oxford students’ translations are imaginative responses to, and interpretations of, real events and people as encountered in interviews and primary sources. They explore the courage and conviction of students who, eighty …

Creative Translations – ‘Lichthof’ by Lydia Ludlow

This year, instead of translating between German and English, the White Rose Translation Project explored ‘creative translation’, adapting the White Rose resistance pamphlets into new works, including poetry, prose, drama, and artwork. The Oxford students’ translations are imaginative responses to, and interpretations of, real events and people as encountered in interviews and primary sources. They explore the …