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|    Henry Schroeder
Whittlesey
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Freelancer,  Verified member | | Translation, Editing/proofreading | | Specializes in: | | Poetry & Literature | Law: Contract(s) | | Business/Commerce (general) | Construction / Civil Engineering | | Investment / Securities | Finance (general) |
| Also works in: | | Linguistics | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | Cinema, Film, TV, Drama | Textiles / Clothing / Fashion | | Religion | Psychology | | Other | Music | | Folklore | Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs | | Architecture | Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | Philosophy | History | | Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | Government / Politics |
More Less | | Questions answered: 1005, Questions asked: 24 Easy / 302 PRO, PRO-level points: 1028 | 8 projects entered  2 positive feedback from outsourcers | Project Details | Project Summary | Corroboration |
Translation
Volume: 27000 words
Completed: Dec 2006
Languages:
Russian to English | Voskoboev and Elizaveta
Translation of novella Voskoboev and Elizaveta by critically acclaimed Russian writer Andrey Dmitriev
Poetry & Literature | No comment. |
Translation
Volume: 30000 words
Completed: Dec 2006
Languages:
Russian to English | Turn in the River
Translation of novella Turn in the River by critically acclaimed Russian writer Andrey Dmitriev
Poetry & Literature | No comment. |
Translation
Volume: 100000 words
Completed: Dec 2005
Languages:
German to English | Ongoing translation of financial statements and management reports
Ongoing translation of financial statements, management reports, income statements, profit and loss accounts, notes to financial statements for major accounting firm
Accounting | positive
Blue Board outsourcer  (5 to 10 entries): Good project handling in each respect that matters in the industry. |
Translation
Volume: 10000 words
Completed: Aug 2005
Languages:
German to English | Concentration camp memorial
Concentration camp memorial: plaques, speeches, excerpts from memoirs
History | No comment. |
Translation
Volume: 30000 words
Completed: May 2005
Languages:
German to English | Three-month long translation of correspondence
Translation and revision of correspondence
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | No comment. |
Translation
Volume: 96 pages
Completed: May 2003
Languages:
German to English | Report on Czech law
Translation of a report on Czech law and its relationship to the continental European system and the Anglo-American system
Law (general) | No comment. |
Translation
Volume: 100000 words
Timeline: Aug 31 '03 to Nov 30 '05
Languages:
German to English | Translation of various texts for healthcare provider
Project for sponsor involving the translation of texts on wheelchairs, prosthetic and orthotic parts, occasionally speeches, letters and press releases
Medical: Health Care | positive
LSI Berlin - Language Training & Services Dr. Ulrike Horstmann: No comment. |
Translation
Volume: 63000 words
Timeline: Dec 31 '00 to Dec 31 '06
Languages:
Russian to English | Russian Literature in the Nineties
Translation of contemporary Russian short stories and novellas
Poetry & Literature | No comment. |
More Less | Sample translations submitted: 3German to English: Elizabeth of Thuringia
Detailed field: History | Source text - German
Sie gehört zweifellos zu den populärsten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Mittelalters. Elisabeth wird 1207 als ungarische Prinzessin geboren, vermut¬lich in Sarospatak in Nordungarn. Ihr Vater ist König Andreas II. (1177-1235), ihre Mutter Gertrud (1185-1213) stammt aus Deutschland.
Mit vier Jahren kommt Elisabeth auf die Wartburg bei Eisenach und wird verlobt mit dem ältesten Sohn von Landgraf Hermann I. von Thüringen. 1221 heiratet Elisabeth Ludwig IV., die Ehe ist glücklich, Elisabeth bekommt drei Kinder.
Beeindruckt von den „minderen Brüdern" des Franz von Assisi siedelt Elisabeth 1225 in Eisenach ein Franziskanerkloster an. Sie strebt fortan selbst nach den Idealen des Bettelordens und übt „Werke der Barmherzigkeit". Elisabeth erwählt sich 1226 den Kreuzprediger Konrad von Marburg zum Beichtvater, schwört ihm Gehorsam. Konrad bestimmt mit strengen Bußregeln ihr Leben.
Im gleichen Jahr herrscht eine große Hungersnot. Elisabeth verteilt die landgräflichen Vorräte an die Armen, errichtet unterhalb der Wartburg ein Spital und pflegt selbst Kranke und Aussätzige. Sie kritisiert das Leben bei Hofe und stellt sich bewusst an die Seite der Armen.
1227 stirbt Ludwig IV. auf der Reise zum Kreuzzug. Die junge Witwe, die ge¬rade ihr drittes Kind geboren hat, verlässt die Wartburg. Nach einer kurzen Zeit in Eisenach geht sie nach Marburg, der Heimat ihres Beichtvaters. Dort errichtet sie 1228 ein Hospital und arbeitet aufopferungsvoll. Erschöpft und ausgezehrt stirbt Elisabeth am 17. November 1231.
Papst Gregor IX. spricht Elisabeth am 12. Mai 1235 in Perugia heilig. Diese Heiligsprechung wird in jenem Jahr auch im Dom zu Erfurt festlich prokla¬miert. Vermutlich hat Elisabeth zu Lebzeiten einige Wallfahrten in die Stadt unternommen und war zu Gast im heutigen Ursulinenkloster. Dietrich von Apolda (1220/30-1302/03), der seit 1247 dem Dominikanerkonvent in Erfurt angehört, verfasst 1289/90 eine lange Zeit maßgebliche Elisabeth-Vita. Darin fügt Dietrich u.a. zahlreiche romanhafte Episoden um Elisabeth und Ludwig IV. von Thüringen ein. Das populäre Werk erfreut sich rasch großer Beliebtheit.
| Translation - English
She is undoubtedly one of the most popular figures from the German Middle Ages. In 1207 Elizabeth is born a Hungarian princess, probably in Sarospatak in northern Hungary. Her father is King Andreas II (1177-1235), while her mother Gertrud (1185-1213) comes from Germany.
In 1211 the four-year-old Elizabeth arrives at the castle of the Wartburg near Eisenach and is engaged to the eldest son of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia. In 1221 Elizabeth marries Ludwig IV, the marriage is a happy one, and Elizabeth gives birth to three children.
Impressed by the followers of Franz of Assisi, Elizabeth helps found a Franciscan monastery in Eisenach in 1225. Thenceforth she seeks to observe the ideals of the order and carry out her “works of mercy”. In 1226 Elizabeth selects the crusade preacher Conrad of Marburg to be her spiritual instructor and gives an oath of obedience. From then on, she leads her life according to Conrad’s strict rules of penance.
The same year finds a famine ravaging the countryside. Elizabeth distributes the landgrave’s reserves to the poor, has a hospital erected below the Wartburg and helps attend to the sick and leprous. She criticizes the life at court and deliberately takes the side of the poor.
In 1227 Ludwig IV dies on the way to a crusade. The young dowager who has just given birth to her third child leaves the Wartburg. After spending a short time in Eisenach, she goes to Marburg, the homeland of her spiritual instructor. There she has a hospital built in 1228 and sacrifices her life to work. Exhausted and haggard, Elizabeth dies on November 17, 1231.
On May 12, 1235, Pope Gregory IX canonizes Elizabeth in Perugia. This canonization is also solemnly proclaimed that very year in the Cathedral at Erfurt. It is presumed that Elizabeth made some pilgrimages to the city during her lifetime and visited the present-day Ursuline Convent (Ursulinenkloster). Dietrich of Apolda (1220/30 – 1302/3), a member of the Dominican Monastery in Erfurt since 1247, records the Elizabeth Vita (Life of Elizabeth) in 1289/90, which for many years is the authoritative work on her life. In the story Dietrich includes, among others, countless novelistic episodes about Elizabeth and Ludwig IV of Thuringia. The popular work enjoys great popularity immediately.
| Russian to English: Voskoboev and Elizaveta by Andrey Dmitriev
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature | Source text - Russian
Капитан Воскобоев с утра не предпринимал никакой работы. Он сидел боком на узком подоконнике и курил. Голубенький ордер на квартиру не слишком обрадовал капитана. Счастливый мотив, трепещущий в горле жены, раздражал, как шум воды в неисправном умывальнике. Нервно вздрагивая краями губ, Воскобоев глядел во двор: там чернела труба новенькой котельной и тускло поблескивали куски антрацита, сваленного в кучу. Возле кучи сидел на корточках молодой рабочий жилконторы и сколачивал детскую песочницу. Его молоток бил тяжко и глухо, как сердце в часы волнений и недосыпа. Звуки молотка доставляли рабочему удовольствие: упиваясь ими, он стучал и стучал, пока не достучался до самых ранимых глубин издерганной воскобоевской души... | Translation - English
Captain Voskoboev had not attempted to do any work since waking up. He sat sideways on the narrow windowsill and smoked. The azure arrangement of their apartment did not thrill the captain. The happy motif warbling in his wife’s throat irritated him like the noise of the water in the defective sink. The edges of his lips quivering ill at ease, Voskoboev looked into the courtyard: a chimney for the new boiler room blackened the sky there, and clumps of piled-up anthracite gleamed dully. Next to the pile, a young worker from the building maintenance office squatted and nailed together a children’s sandbox. His hammer came down heavily and dully like ones heart in an hour of agitation and insufficient sleep. The sound of the hammer pleased the worker: with great satisfaction he went on hammering and hammering as long as he did not hammer into the very vulnerable depths of Voskoboev’s frayed soul... | Russian to English: The Black Pelican by Vadim Babenko
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature | Source text - Russian
Я и сейчас хорошо помню свое появление в городе М. Оно растянулось во времени – путешествие было долгим, осаждавшие меня мысли переплетались с дорожными картинами, и казалось, видимое вокруг уже имеет отношение к самому городу, хоть до него еще было несколько часов пути. Я проезжал мимо фермерских владений, затерянных в безлюдье, мимо небольших поселков или одиноких поместий с возделанной зеленью вокруг, мимо полей и лесистых холмов, искусственных прудов и диких озер, от которых уже попахивало болотом – затем, около самого города М., оно переходит в торфяники и пустошь, где на многие мили нет никакого жилья. Попадались скромные городки – шоссе ненадолго становилось их главной улицей, мелькали площади, скопления магазинов, потом, ближе к центру, банки и церкви, проносилась колокольня, обычно молчащая, затем вновь мельтешили окраинные пейзажи с магазинами и бензоколонками, и все: город кончался, не успев ни взволновать, ни заинтересовать, дорога снова вилась меж полей, утомляя однообразием. Я видел странных людей, которыми кишит провинция – они предстают забавными на короткий миг, но потом, соизмерив их с окружающим, понимаешь, как они обыденны, и перестаешь замечать. Кое-где мне махали с обочин или просто провожали взглядом, чаще же никто не отвлекался на мое мгновенное присутствие, оставаясь позади, растворяясь в улицах, отходящих в стороны от шоссе. | Translation - English
To this day I remember the long road to the town of M. It dragged on and on, while the thoughts plaguing me mingled with the scenes along the way. It seemed as if my surroundings were already at one with the town itself, although I still had a few hours to go. I passed obscure farms in empty fields, small villages and lonely estates surrounded by cultivated greenery and forest hills. Man-made ponds and natural lakes skirted the road and reeked like wetlands, which later, right before the town of M., turned into peat bogs and wasteland, with no sign of life for miles to come. The countryside was dotted with humble towns sprouting out of the land, the highway briefly becoming their main street: squares and clusters of stores gleamed in the sun, banks and churches rose up closer to the center, the belfry whizzed by, silent as usual. Then again the glint of the stores and gas stations at the outskirts said farewell without a word, and just like that, it was over. The town was gone, without having time to agitate or interest you. Again the road wound its way through the fields, its monotony wearing you down. I saw the strange people that swarm over the countryside – for a fleeting moment they appear amusing, but then you measure them against their surroundings and stop noticing them, understanding how unexceptional they are. Sometimes people waved to me from the curb or just followed me with their eyes, though more often than not, nobody was distracted by my fleeting presence. Left behind, they merged with the streets, as they withdrew to the side. |
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I am currently in Berlin.
History
Freelance Translator (Moscow, Röhrmoos, Manhattan) 2000 - Present
Editor of Art and Literary Journal Transfer Review 2002 - Present
St. Petersburg State University, Business English Professor 2002 - 2003
Wall Street Institute, English Teacher 2000 -2002
University of Munich (LMU) 1998 - 2000
Reed University (majored in German and Russian literature 1994-1998
Bronx High School of Science (New York) 1990-1994
P.S. 84 (New York) 1981-1990
Information divided into two categories:
1. Literature/Literary Translations
2. Commercial Translations
Literature/Literary Translations:
2010:
Publication of Steps by Andrey Dmitriev and an essay on Dmitriev's literature in New Madrid (blurb available at: Obenaroque)
2009:
First essay on my latest literary project: Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America
Neobaroque novel Edge completed (excerpts available at: Obenaroque)
Translation of Voskoboev and Elizaveta by Andrey Dmitriev published in Washington University's Arch Literary Journal
2008:
Book/Series of papers completed on the interaction of indirect discourse, commentary and narration in Russian, German and English narratives.
1. Consciousness in Translation - Part One: Discourse and narration in general
2. Consciousness in Translation - Part Two: Discourse and narration in general
3. Consciousness in Translation - Part Three: Translating Russian narratorial commentary and interior monologue as (untagged) quoted monologue in English. Examples from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
4. Consciousness in Translation - Part Four: Translating Russian narratorial commentary and interior monologue as narrated monologue (free indirect discourse)
5. Insulation and Corruption in Discourse and Narration (unpublished)
6. The Time of Apprehension in Narratives with a Commenting Narrator (unpublished)
7. The Time of Apprehension in Narratives without a Commenting Narrator (unpublished)
Translations and Articles in 2007:
Translation of the novel Черный пеликан (The Black Pelican) by Vadim Babenko (published by Amfora; excerpts of translation available here)
Articles on translating interior monologue from Russian into English with examples from Joyce, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Zamyatin, Sologub, Dmitriev and Babenko (available here under Articles; see above)
Past Projects (2001-06):
Translation of contemporary Russian literature, including publication of stories by Mailakhs, Polyanskaya and German writer Dieter Sperl
Other literary work (request resume)
Commercial Translations:
Ongoing Collaboration with Translation Agencies:
Vestido AG, Vasold & Mayer, Tradux, Tetralingua, Holtz-Stosch Übersetzungsbüro, Lionbridge, Pure Language, Typetime, Haller Übersetzungsbüro, Fix-Übersetzungen
Direct Clients:
Euro Japan, Language Weaver
Major Projects:
2009:
1. Investor reports; guidelines for social policies (via Vestido Übersetzungsbüro)
2. Financial statements for Sparkasse Nordrhein-Westfalen (Euro Japan),
3. Financial statements for various companies (via Holtz-Stosch Übersetzungsbüro),
4. Multiple contracts for development project in Russia (ongoing; via Vasold & Mayer Übersetzungsbüro)
5. Contracts (via Tetralingua, )
6. Commericial, political, social texts (ongoing; Language Weaver)
7. Operating manuals (via Tradux)
More available on request
Major Projects 2002-2008
1. Financial Statements (German into English) for top 5 accounting company via Holtz- Stosch Übersetzungsbüro (February 2005 to present)
2. 96-page analysis of Czech criminal law (German into English) (2003)
3. Translation of contemporary Russian authors (Russian into English) (2002)
4. Legal correspondence for international trial (German into English) with Donnell Reed and Partner (February 2005 - May 2005)
5. Banking report (January 2005) (German into English) with Tongue-Tied Translations
6. Business and medical translations for Otto Bock (Entrepreneur of the Year 2003) with LSI-Berlin (German into English) (Sept. 2003 to Aug 2004; Sept 2005 to 2007)
Minor Projects (in large quantities):
1. Contracts, AGBs (for assorted translation agencies)
2. Bedienungsanleitungen/Instructions for Use (for assorted translation agencies)
3. Fashion blurbs, websites, shoe newspapers | This user has earned KudoZ points by helping other translators with PRO-level terms. Click point total(s) to see term translations provided.
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| Total projects | 8 | | With client feedback | 2 | | Corroborated | 2 | | | 100% positive (2 entries) |  positive | 2 |  neutral | 0 |  negative | 0 |
| Job type | | Translation | 8 | | | Language pairs | | German to English | 5 | | Russian to English | 3 | | | Specialty fields | | Poetry & Literature | 3 | | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | 1 | | History | 1 | | | Other fields | | Medical: Health Care | 1 | | Law (general) | 1 | | Accounting | 1 |
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