A seemingly historic milestone occurred as my translation of Matthias Häussler’s The Herero Genocide: War,…
Elizabeth JanikApril 4, 2022
David Iliff
I started kulturplease.com in 2009, which seems like almost a lifetime ago. Back then I…
Elizabeth JanikDecember 13, 2021
Ole Siemen
The insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 wounded our constitutional democracy…
Elizabeth JanikMarch 1, 2021
June 2020: As I was finishing my translation of Matthias Häussler’s study of the Herero…
Elizabeth JanikJune 29, 2020
Last year I found myself immersed in the brutal world of colonial concentration camps at…
Elizabeth JanikJanuary 12, 2020
Media coverage of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall has been…
Elizabeth JanikNovember 9, 2019
One of the best things about translating the work of an accomplished historian is learning…
Elizabeth JanikJuly 8, 2019
It's been 100 years since the first incarnation of the legendary art and design school…
Elizabeth JanikApril 28, 2019
Der Spiegel found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons at the end…
Elizabeth JanikJanuary 20, 2019
I was sorry to hear that Anthea Bell, literary translator extraordinaire, passed away on October…
Elizabeth JanikJanuary 3, 2019