Heidrun Gerzymisch (8 May 1944) is a GermanTranslation scholar[1] and emeritus professor atSaarland University inSaarbrücken, where she held the Chair for "English Linguistics and Translation Science" from 1993 to 2009. She is in 2014 responsible for the international PhD prep school "MuTra" atSaarland University’s Graduate Center GradUS and lecturesTranslation at theZurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Gerzymisch was born inGusow, nearSeelow, Germany. She graduated from the "Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen" (Institute for Translation and Interpreting) of theHeidelberg University in 1969 with the degree as "Diplom-Übersetzer" (M.A. Translation) for English and Spanish with a minor in Economics, following a student internship at RTP,New York (1964) and language studies at thePolytechnic of Central London (1965) and theUniversity of Zaragoza,Spain (1968). She subsequently worked as (certified)free lancetranslator andinterpreter largely in the field ofinternational business &economics.
From 1979 to 1993 Gerzymisch wasLecturer at the "Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen" (Institute for Translation and Interpretation) of theHeidelberg University where she taughtTranslationseminars and practical (economics) translation courses. In 1986 she received herPhD (Dr. phil.) fromJohannes Gutenberg University of Mainz-Germersheim with adissertation on the information structure (theme-rheme analysis) of American business texts (in German).
She heldprofessorships in 1987-1988, 1990 and 1991 at the "Department of Translation and Interpretation" atMonterey Institute of International Studies,Monterey, California, and completed her post-doctoral "Habilitation" in Translation Science at theHeidelberg University in 1992. She held an interimprofessorship in the area of translation science at the "Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen" at theHeidelberg University in 1993 and then received a tenured appointment to the Chair for English Linguistics and Translation Science ofSaarland University which she held until 2009. She was a visiting professor at the Translatology Institute of theCharles University in Prague in 1999, the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Translatology at theUniversity of Graz in 2002, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting at theZurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) from 2008 to 2018, as well as at the Centre for Translation Studies at theUniversity of Vienna in 2010.
In 1994 Heidrun Gerzymisch founded the Advanced Translation Research Center (ATRC) atSaarland University, and also in 1996 with Saarland foundation "Stiftung zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im Übersetzen und Dolmetschen" ("Foundation for the Promotion of Young Scholars in Translation and Interpreting"). The ATRC organized a series of EU-financed Marie Curie Euroconferences at the Universities inAarhus,Copenhagen,Prague,Saarbrücken andVienna between 1999 and 2007. This later led to the founding of the international PhD "prep school" MuTra. In 2010, MuTra became integrated intoSaarland University’s Graduate Center GradUS.
Gerzymisch is the chairperson of the EST (European Society for Translation Studies) Young Scholar Prize Committee.
Gerzymisch studies the processes involved intranslation.[2] Her research is strongly influenced by the ideas and principles of Heidelberg physicist and linguist Klaus Mudersbach. She developed a translation methodology based on Mudersbach's atomistic-holistic-holatomistic principle, expanding it to include what she calls "transparentsubjectivity", or individualism into the translation process. Her research topics include: the role ofholistic structures in comparison and transfer procedures in translation processes; comparative analyses of common traits and differences in language, knowledge and cultural systems; and the role of writing processes in the translation ofaudiovisual and hybrid texts.
Gerzymisch has published a number of books and journal articles about decision-making in translation processes, as well as coherence, information structure repetition of ideas in translated work. She has written about the interpretation of culture during the translation process[3] and about the comparison of knowledge systems and discourse preferences.[4] She has lectured and written about the evaluation of translations[5] and about translation ofsubtitling,audio description and written interpretation of visual works.[6] A collection of articles, edited by Juliane House, Werner Koller and Klaus Schubert, were published in German asNeue Perspektiven in der Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschwissenschaft in 2004, in honor of her 60th birthday.
Heidrun Gerzymisch has family ties in the USA and Canada and lives in Germany and Switzerland.
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