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| AlexTranslation
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More Less | | Questions answered: 5, Questions asked: 0 Easy / 0 PRO, PRO-level points: 4 | | 0 entries | | Wire transfer, Money order, Check | Sample translations submitted: 5German to English: Stefan Frey, "Unter Tränen Lachen," p. 9.
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Music | Source text - German
"An fast jedem schönen Tag ging ich im Westen des Central Parks gegenüber unserem Haus an einer einsamen Gestalt vorbei. Sie saß auf einer Bank und brütete düster über dem Wallstreet Journal, zu ihren Füßen eine Tüte mit Kartoffeln, Kohl, Wurst oder ähnlichen Lebensmitteln."
Die einsame Gestalt war Emmerich Kálmán, der an ihr vorbeiging, Robert Stolz. Zwei Operettenkomponisten im New Yorker Exil. Und doch hatten sie wenig gemeinsam. Während Stolz in den USA dirigierend zum Botschafter der österreichischen Musik wurde, saß Emmerich Kálmán einsam auf seiner Parkbank, entwurzelt wie zahllose Emigranten des Zweiten Weltkrieges.
Von Robert Stolz darauf angesprochen, warum er denn nichts mehr komponiere, antwortete er: " 'Emmerich Kálmán ... komponiert nur auf Bestellung.' Zu hungern brauchte er allerdings nicht. Emmerich war immer sehr sparsam und besaß ein großes Talent für Börsengeschäfte."
Beginnt eine Kálmán'sche Ouvertüre in der Regel mit einem rauschenden Maestoso, so fängt die Ouvertüre seiner Biografie eher verhalten an. Ist doch der Kontrast von Leben und Werk bei keinem Operettenkomponist so ausgeprägt wie bei ihm. Nicht umsonst gilt er als schwermütiger Meister der leichten Muse. Und nichts bringt dies besser zum Ausdruck als das Bild des einsamen Komponisten auf einer Parkbank in New York. Die Legende vom Melancholiker, der die lebenslustigste Musik schrieb, gehört untrennbar zu Kálmán wie die vom "grimmigen Genie", das nur "auf Bestellung" komponierte, oder des sparsamen Mannes, der an der Börse ein Vermögen machte. Emmerich Kálmán war ein Mann der Widersprüche. In seinem Schaffen wurden sie produktiv, wie selten in diesem Genre und in keiner seiner Operetten so wie in der Csárdásfürstin. Es gibt kaum ein Werk des Musiktheaters, das die Atmosphäre des Ersten Weltkriegs besser einfängt. Trotz aller Ausgelassenheit ist es die Weltuntergangsoperette par excellence, trotz aller Popularität Katastrophenmusik: Lachen unter Tränen!
| Translation - English
Almost every lovely day, I used to pass a lonesome figure across from our house on Central Park West. Somberly brooding over The Wall Street Journal, he'd sit on a bench, at his feet a bag with potatoes, cabbage, sausage, or some such foodstuffs.
The lonesome figure was Emmerich Kálmán; the passerby, Robert Stolz. Two operetta composers in their New York exile. Nevertheless, they had little in common. While Stolz, conducting in the US, became the ambassador of Austrian music, Emmerich Kálmán sat lonesome on his park bench, uprooted like countless émigrés of World War II.
When Robert Stolz inquired why he didn't compose anymore, he replied: " 'Emmerich Kálmán… composes on order only.' He wasn't starving, though. Emmerich used to be very thrifty and had a great talent for stock transactions."
While a Kálmán overture usually opens with a sweeping maestoso, the overture of his biography opens rather muted. After all, with no other operetta composer is the contrast between life and work as pronounced. He isn't known as the melancholic master of the light muse for nothing. And there's nothing better to illustrate that than the image of the lonesome composer on a New York park bench. The legend of the melancholiac who wrote lighthearted music is as inseparable from Kálmán as that of the "grim genius" who composed only "on order" or that of the thrifty man who made a fortune on the stock exchange. Emmerich Kálmán was a man of contradictions. In his work, they became singularly productive, exceptionally in his genre, and in none of his operettas as much as in Die Csárdásfürstin. There's hardly a work in musical theater that better captures the mood of World War I. In spite of all lightheartedness, it is the Armageddon operetta par excellence, disaster music despite all its popularity: laughter under tears!
| English to German: Powerline Networking Article
General field: Tech/Engineering
Detailed field: Telecom(munications) | Source text - English
Article: "How to Kill the Home Networking Industry" | Translation - German
Artikel: "Ohne Interoperabilität kein Marktwachstum" | English to German: Website Translation
General field: Marketing
Detailed field: Advertising / Public Relations | Source text - English
Sandisk 4GB Cruzer Micro USB U3 Flash Drive
Product Description
Specifications and Features:
Capacities: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB
Retractable USB connector
Brilliant amber LED
Enhanced for ReadyBoost
U3 smart enabled
Loaded with the following U3 programs
CruzerSync synchronization software
SignupShield password manager
SKYPE "Make video calls from PC to PC"
AVAST antivirus software
Dimensions: 7.94mm x 20.6mm x 57.15mm (D x W x L)
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 certified (backwards compatible with all USB 1.1 ports)
Compatible with Windows 2000, SP4 and XP*
Certified Windows 2000 and XP*
Warranty 10 years
* U3 functionality only supported on Windows 2000 (SP4 and later) | Translation - German
Sandisk 4 GB Cruzer Micro USB U3-Stick
Produktbeschreibung
Technische Daten und Eigenschaften:
Kapazitäten: 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB
Versenkbarer USB-Stecker
Leuchtend gelbe LED-Anzeige
Optimiert für ReadyBoost
U3-Smart-fähig
Folgende U3-Programme vorinstalliert:
CruzerSync-Synchronisationssoftware
SignupShield-Passwortverwaltung
SKYPE: Video- und Telefongespräche von PC zu PC
AVAST-Antivirussoftware
Abmessungen: 57,15 mm x 20,6 mm x 7,94 mm (L x B x H)
Zertifiziert für Hochgeschwindigkeits-USB-2.0-Verbindung (rückwärts kompatibel mit allen USB-1.1-Anschlüssen)
Kompatibel mit Windows 2000, SP4 und XP *
Zertifiziert für Windows 2000 und XP *
10 Jahre Garantie
* U3-Funktionalität wird nur unter Windows 2000 (SP4 und später) und XP unterstützt
| English: "Anything Goes: A Horror Writer's Cop Out"
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature | Source text - English
Writing sample: "Anything Goes: A Horror Writer's Cop Out" | Translation - English
Writing sample: "Anything Goes: A Horror Writer's Cop Out" | English: "Howard Roark in a Tricorn"
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature | Source text - English
Writing sample: "Howard Roark in a Tricorn" | Translation - English
Writing sample: "Howard Roark in a Tricorn" |
More Less | | BA-University of Hamburg | | Years of translation experience: 4. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2009. Became a member: Jul 2009. | | N/A | English (University of Hamburg)
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"I can honestly say, after reviewing the complete translated manuscript, that Alex has done an absolutely superb job. His command of English, and its idioms and nuances, is first-rate. He has managed to capture perfectly Frey's informative, yet wry, writing style that brings this academic book to life. At all times during the translation process, Alex has been very responsive to questions or concerns that we raised, and he has conducted himself in a totally professional manner." — Michael D. Miller, Ph.D., President, Operetta Foundation, on my translation of Stefan Frey's Emmerich Kálmán biography "Unter Tränen lachen" from German into English.
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