Press Release
Press Release
Hamburg, 15 October 2009
Books from the Hamburger Edition Awarded Translation Prize “Geisteswissenschaften International”
Two historical studies originally published in German by the Hamburger Edition have been awarded complete funding for German to English translation as recipients of the prize Geisteswissenschaften International. The complete list of prizewinners was announced during a press conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair today.
The books from the Hamburger Edition selected in the fourth round of the biannual competition are historian Malte Rolf’s volume on mass celebrations in the Soviet Union, “Das Sowjetische Massenfest”, and a historical study of the prosecution of accused German war criminals after World War I, “Die Leipziger Prozesse: Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen und ihre strafrechtliche Verfolgung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg” authored by legal scholar Gerd Hankel.
The award program Geisteswissenschaften International was established as a joint initiative of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to promote dissemination of outstanding books from the humanities and social sciences by German academics. An independent jury composed of representatives of academic institutions, specialist media, and publishing and chaired by Professor Wolfgang Frühwald, Honorary President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, selects about thirty books for the prize each year.
Since the program to facilitate English-language editions of innovative German publications began in mid-2008, a total of five books originally released by the Hamburger Edition have been chosen for funding. The first title, Bernd Greiner’s study of U.S. War crimes in Vietnam, was published in English this summer by The Bodley Head and Yale University Press as “War without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam”. Two further volumes, Jan Philipp Reemtsma’s “Vertrauen und Gewalt” and Michael Wildt’s “Volksgemeinschaft”, are scheduled for release by publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2010.
Foreign-language publishers interested in acquiring translations rights to these or other books from the Hamburger Edition will find further information in English here and are welcome to direct inquiries to the rights manager, Paula Bradish (Send an e-mail).
For further information about the Hamburger Edition, the publishing company of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, please contact
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