{"id":320,"date":"2019-10-22T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whiteroseproject.org\/?p=320"},"modified":"2022-02-19T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:24:37","slug":"call-for-student-translators-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiteroseproject.seh.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2019\/10\/22\/call-for-student-translators-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Student Translators 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>The White Rose Project \u2013 Call for Translators 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">In 1943 five students and a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich were arrested, interrogated, tried, and executed. They were members of The White Rose (\u2018Die Wei\u00dfe Rose\u2019), a clandestine group who wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. The White Rose is a household name in Germany but is little known in the UK.\u00a0To commemorate the 77<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the first White Rose trials, there will be a public performance of translated excerpts from the group\u2019s letters and diaries in Oxford in mid-2020. The majority of these texts have never appeared in English. A publication of this material is also planned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>How to apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">This project is open to all students of German in the second or fourth year of undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, and there will be twelve places available. Applications will also be considered from Oxford undergraduate students who are not studying German, but who are confident\u00a0translating between German and English. Participation is based on a series of seminars (in weeks 6 and 8 of Michaelmas term, and weeks 2 and 4 of Hilary term). You will work on translations both independently and as part of the seminar group. To apply, please send a short statement (max. 75 words)\u00a0outlining why you would like to participate, and a translation of the following text to Dr Alex Lloyd (<a href=\"mailto:alexandra.lloyd@seh.ox.ac.uk\">alexandra.lloyd@seh.ox.ac.uk<\/a>)\u00a0<strong>by Friday 1st November\u00a02019<\/strong>. You will be notified of the result of the application by Monday 4th November 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Translate into English: \u2018In 14 Tagen werde ich die Heimreise antreten. Ich habe eingesehen, dass nichts wichtiger ist, als jetzt zu Euch zu fahren. Von unserem Graben zu den Russen sind es 80m. Trotzdem lebt man hier mehr im Frieden als je. Vorausgesetzt, dass man sich aus dem L\u00e4rm nichts macht\u2019\u00a0(letter from Hans Scholl to his family, October 1942, at the Russian front).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Rose Project \u2013 Call for Translators 2019 In 1943 five students and a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich were arrested, interrogated, tried, and executed. They were members of The White Rose (\u2018Die Wei\u00dfe Rose\u2019), a clandestine group who wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. 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