Books 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.

