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German to English Poetry & Literature Translation Glossary

German term		English translation
Standesamt		registry office, registrar's office, registrar of births, deaths and marriages
Stay a while! You are so lovely!		Linger a while -- thou art so fair
Sternstunde		epiphany
stilistische Bergung		stylistic containment (as in Hemmingway\'s prose style)	Stephen Old
Entered by: Stephen Old
Stimmungsbilder		vignettes
Strichfassung		dramaturgical cut script
stumm		silent / muted / taciturn
Szene-Krimi		[hip] whodunit/crime novel set in xyz milieu
tabuisieren		relegate to the realm of the taboo
tagblinde Höhlengräber		cave-digging night-eyes /dayblind cavediggers (-dwellers) / night-eyed cavedwellers
Tanzbahn		(outdoor) dance floor	Dr. Andrew Hudson
Entered by: Dr. Andrew Hudson
Taubonbons		dewdrops/drops of dew
Tauchte ich irgendwo auf, hießen auf einmal alle Hase.		When I showed up, suddenly nobody knew anything	Hannah Gunasingh
Entered by: Hannah Gunasingh
Töne der Stille		sounds of silence
Türblatt		door / door leaf	Steffen Walter
Entered by: Steffen Walter
Theaterroman		novel as playscript / novel as theatre script / novel in the form of a playscript / novel in x no. of acts
Totgesagte leben länger		Reports of His death are greatly exaggerated	Bettina Grieser Johns
Entered by: Bettina Grieser Johns
trau schau wem		watch whom you trust	Tegan Raleigh
Entered by: Tegan Raleigh
Traum vom Glück		pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
treffen (here)		...had to build on the wording or meaning of the....	Stephen Old
Entered by: Stephen Old
tributpflichtigen		tributary
Trockensieb		drying rack
tropisch		figuratively
Trugwerk		contrivance OR trick
tulpenfarb'gen [tulpenfarbigen]		tulip-colored/tulip-hued
Turnusstelle		(medical ) rotation training
um schweigen zu lernen		to learn to shut up
Umsteige		transfer ticket
und genau dagegen führt XXX einen schrecklichen Vernichtungkrieg		and against which Pxxxn is now waging a dreadful war of annihilation
Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein neuer Zauber inne		In all beginnings dwells a magic force	Steffen Walter
Entered by: Steffen Walter
Unerlöstheit		released/set free
unten schon deutlich Trunkenheit und Späte		now clearly drunkenness and time (untime)
unter Zuziehung		drawing on
Valentinade		Valentin sketches
Verblendung		merging
verbockt		defiantly
Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler		Forbidden desire - I love my student
verbunden mit einer ästhetischen Würdigung im narrativen Stil		together with an aesthetic appreciation in the narrative form	Steve Yates
Entered by: Steve Yates
verdichtet, aber nicht erdichtet		turned into poetry, not fictional
Verfluchtes dumpfes Mauerloch		musty, cursed cell

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