Against the backdrop of the bachelor and master degree award ceremony held at the College of Applied Languages of the Munich Language and Interpreting Institute in Munich (SDI) www.sdi–muenchen.de on November 25, 2010, the Dialog International Advancement Award was conferred for the second time.

Left to right: Brigitte Fandrich (thesis mentor), Linnea Streit, Christa B. Zander

The Award, which carries prize money of 500, Euro was handed over to Ms Linnea Streit by Christa B. Zander, Managing Director of Dialog International GmbH, herself a graduate of the SDI as a conference interpreter and technical translator. Her bachelor thesis entitled Chansons von Carla Bruni in Übersetzung (chansons by Carla Bruni in translation) analyses and translates six chansons. The thesis sets out Linnea Streit´s theories on the translation of lyrics set to music. She interlinks these using her concrete translation process, illustrating the restrictions imposed on the reproduction of images and other text elements by retaining the macrostructure, metre and in some cases the rhyming pattern of the original.

Congratulations to the award winner from Christa B. Zander and her team!

An academic first: a new prize, the Dialog International GmbH Advancement Award, was awarded today during the bachelor degree award ceremony at the College of Applied Languages of the Munich Language and Interpreting Institute (SDI) www.sdi–muenchen.de

The Dialog International GmbH Advancement Award, which carries a financial prize of € 500, was handed over to Ms Christine K. Haselwarter by Christa B. Zander, Managing Director of Dialog International GmbH, herself a graduate of the SDI and a conference interpreter and technical translator. Ms Haselwarter's bachelor thesis scrutinized the merits of two German translations of the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote produced over 40 years apart, and provided a comparative evaluation of the two critiques.

Christa B. Zander and her team expressed their congratulations to the award winner!