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Hamburg, 23 April 2010
Hamburger Edition Publication Wins Geisteswissenschaften International Prize
In a meeting held just before the 2010 London Book Fair opened, the Geisteswissenschaften International jury selected a study published by Hamburger Edition for this spring’s list of prizewinners. The award went to Gewalt im Dienstalltag: Die SS-Aufseherinnen des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Majdanek 1942–1944 [Workaday Violence: Female SS Guards at Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944] by Elissa Mailänder Koslov.
The historian’s thought-provoking analysis shows how »ordinary« German women could, within mere weeks of being recruited, become brutal Nazi camp guards. The volume previously also won a reputed Austrian prize for research on fascism, the Herbert Steiner Prize.
Geisteswissenschaften International is co-sponsored by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, the German Federal Foreign Office, VG Wort, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. By guaranteeing complete funding of German-to-English translations for selected innovative books from the humanities and social sciences, the program facilitates international dissemination of German scholarship.
This is the sixth publication submitted by Hamburger Edition to receive the translation grant since the program was established in mid-2008.
Foreign-language publishers interested in acquiring translations rights to books from the Hamburger Edition will find further information here and are welcome to direct inquiries to our rights manager, Paula Bradish (send an e-mail).
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