Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Blick zurück nach vorn
English translation:
Looking back and into the future
Added to glossary by
Anne Cappel
Dec 14, 2009 22:12
14 yrs ago
German term
United Kingdom
Reliable German/French to English
Native in: English (Variants: US, UK) 
Works in: German to English, French to English
Blick zurück nach vorn
German to English
Bus/Financial
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Blick zurück nach vorn
(Title of an article about a company and its progress throughout the year 2009 despite the financial crisis)
(Title of an article about a company and its progress throughout the year 2009 despite the financial crisis)
Proposed translations
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Change log
Apr 9, 2010 10:48: Anne Cappel Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Anne Cappel
Native in German
Native in: German 
Works in: Spanish to German, English to German, German to Spanish, and 1 more.
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Looking back and into the future
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bzw. ohne "and"
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bzw. ohne "and"
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Comment: "Thanks!"
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1 hr
Looking back ahead.
It should go without the "and".
Peer comment(s):
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Bernhard Sulzer
: how about "A look back ahead" = the great results (in the past) are what one can (hopefully) look forward to (again)..or: when looking forward/ahead one is really looking for/at the past results; it's supposed to be a catchy and smart title.:)
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I like your "how about" very much. Your suggestion really gets the point across. Thank you, Bernhard. :)
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Annett Kottek (X)
: I really like Bernhard's suggestion 'A look back ahead'.
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So do I. Thank you, Annett.
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Rolf Keiser
: with Bernhard
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Thank you, Goldcoaster.
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Helen Shiner
: Sorry but this is meaningless in EN - an example of something that really cannot be translated literally.
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Thank you for your input, Helen.
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Arts/Academic translator - Art historian
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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74
Looking Back to the Future
Based around the film title 'Back to the Future'
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or Looking back to the future
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/
I don't know what the title of this film was in German, but the title of this film is well known in EN-speaking (at least UK and US) countries.
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or Looking back to the future
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/
I don't know what the title of this film was in German, but the title of this film is well known in EN-speaking (at least UK and US) countries.
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14 hrs
British Diana
Germany
Germany
Native in English
Works in field
Germany
enthusiast
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: German to English, English to German, English, and 1 more.
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19
Look back -but not in anger
This would keep the literary allusion which I think is absolutely essential.
John Osbourne's play is well-known in the U.K. and U.S. (and elsewhere, too).
This title would fit the text of the article which presumably has to mention the negative events of 2009 ("anger" at what we had to put up with) but the company will then say something positive, too, - or so I should imagine ("not "anger" because in the lomng run we have learnt from the crisis bla bla...)
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Sorry typo: in the long run - but I'm sure you got that anyway. There isn't an edit facility for answers...
John Osbourne's play is well-known in the U.K. and U.S. (and elsewhere, too).
This title would fit the text of the article which presumably has to mention the negative events of 2009 ("anger" at what we had to put up with) but the company will then say something positive, too, - or so I should imagine ("not "anger" because in the lomng run we have learnt from the crisis bla bla...)
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Sorry typo: in the long run - but I'm sure you got that anyway. There isn't an edit facility for answers...
Peer comment(s):
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Johanna Timm, PhD
: agree definitely re: the crucial importance of the implied "anger at the past" element in the source text !!
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Thanks, Johanna, I'm glad you see it this way, too!
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"1 step back, 2 steps forward"
I line with the negative saying "2 steps back, 1 step forward", I have heard the saying in a positive tone for someone who fell behind (as in the economic situation) but took a step back, regathered himself to then move ahead strong. To go back to the fundamentals as it were.
Reference comments
9 mins
Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Canada
Native in German
Canada
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Native in: German (Variants: Swiss, Platt / Nieder (Low German), Austrian, Germany)
Works in: English to German, German to English, German
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90
Reference:
probably alluding to
Blick zurück im Zorn (Look back in Anger)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_zurück_im_Zorn
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_zurück_im_Zorn
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Jumplanguage
: you are mostly right, I agree.
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Jumplanguage
Germany
Germany
Native in German
Germany
good arguments need good words
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English
Reference:
... im Zorn?
The allusion to "Blick zurück im Zorn" which was mentioned by Johanna Timm is certainly there. "Blick zurück nach vorn" has also become a saying that you can hear now and then in spoken German.
There is also something in it that hints to "back to the future" - in this case probably meaning that they want to regain the prospects they had before the crisis.
And there is also something in it of learning from the past to be able to do better in the future.
What about the following ideas:
There is also something in it that hints to "back to the future" - in this case probably meaning that they want to regain the prospects they had before the crisis.
And there is also something in it of learning from the past to be able to do better in the future.
What about the following ideas:
Example sentence:
looking back - to the future (the dash being important in this context)
looking at the past, tackling the future
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