On Magicking a Mountain: World-Making in Literary Translation
2026 Ida Herz Lecture
Thomas Mann
Conversation / Gegenüber Talks
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain with Susan Bernofsky & Veronika Fuechtner, sponsored by Goethe Institute Boston
Review / Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions
“Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism,” a review of Morten Høi Jensen’s The Master of Contradictions, published in The Nation
One Novel – Two Days – Many Readings
A workshop on Susan Bernofsky’s new translation of Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain
For registration information, contact Department of German Studies, Dartmouth College
Interview / taz
Interviewed by Simone Schmollack for taz (die tageszeitung)
“Alchimistische Transmutation” und andere Geheimnisse der Übersetzung
Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural Lecture), August Wilhelm von Schlegel Gastprofessur für Poetik der Übersetzung at Freie Universität Berlin sponsored by Deutscher Übersetzerfonds, lecture hosted by English Theatre Berlin, with introductory remarks by Günther Grosser, Ulrich Blumenbach, and Dr. Susanne Strätling
Interview / rbb kultur
“Der Tag / Heute zu Gast”: Interviewed by Peter Claus (in German) for Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
This Is a Classic
Expanded version of the essay “Translation as Storytelling” now out in This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global, edited by Regina Galasso (Bloomsbury)
Translating Your First Magic Mountain
Lecture hosted by the Translation Initiative at Yale University
Interview / Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism
“Turn Up the Volume”: Interviewed by Molly Wagschal and Campbell Campbell for Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism
Wie man beim Übersetzen eine Geschichte erzählt
In Conversation: Colm Tóibín x Susan Bernofsky
The Goethe-Institut Toronto was delighted to host Colm Tóibín & Susan Bernofsky for a conversation about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and Tóibín’s new novel, The Magician.