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Translation and/in Periodical Publications
Edited by María Constanza Guzmán
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:2] 2019
► pp. 265–282

The politics of translation in the press

Siegfried Kracauer and cultural mediation in the periodicals of the Weimar Republic

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Translations and translation reviews played a major part in furthering the political program of leftwing periodicals in Weimar Germany. However, this remains a relative blind spot in media studies of the period. By exploring the use of translations and their review for political ends in three major Weimar cultural periodicals and undertaking a specific examination of Siegfried Kracauer’s translation reviews, this article illustrates the ways in which both translations and their reviews were employed, directly and indirectly, as instruments of political polemic and ideological mediation.

Keywords: German Marxism, leftwing politics, German literature, feuilleton
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Translations as indirect polemic
  • Translation reviews as direct and indirect ideological mediation
  • Siegfried Kracauer and the revolutionary translation review
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 June 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00041.lov
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