Paul Richards

• BA German and History of Art, University College London including study at the Humboldt University Berlin

• MA in Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London

• Diploma in Translation, Chartered Institute of Linguists

• Freelance translator since 2013, focuses: Science communication, popular history, museums, art and culture, politics, marketing

• Extensive experience in social housing before becoming a translator

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists

• 1st prize, Geisteswissenschaften International Nonfiction Translators’ Prize 2020

 

 

Publications (excluding exhibition catalogues)

 

• Values: Why we need them, even though they don’t exist, translation of Werte: Warum man sie braucht, obwohl es sie nicht gibt by Andreas Urs Sommer, Springer Nature, due for publication in 2023

• Translation of parts of Red Vienna Sourcebook, Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, Ingo Zechner (eds.), Rochester NY: Camden House 2020. 

• Translation of a series of historical comics by Christopher Tauber and Annelie Wagner for the Young Museum Frankfurt:

o The Biggest Party in the World, 2017

o Out of the Darkness, 2019

o Sketches of a Revolution, 2021

• Translation, The Second Rank, Gregor Holzinger et al., Mauthausen Memorial, Vienna, publication in progress

• Copy-editing, Emerging Market Multinationals and Europe: Challenges and Strategies, Andreas Breinbauer, Louis Brennan, Johannes Jäger, Andreas G. M. Nachbagauer, Andreas Nölke (eds.), Springer 2020

• Copy-editing, English chapters in Konflikt und Koexistenz. Die Rechtsordnungen Südosteuropas im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, vol. 1: Rumänien, Bulgarien, Griechenland, Michael Stolleis, Gerd Bender, Jani Kirov (hrsg.), Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 292, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2015.

 

 

 

Exhibitions and publications

 

 

• Wien Museum

o Beyond Bambi. Felix Salten and the Discovery of Viennese Modernism. 15 October 2020 to 19 September 2021

o Where Things Live. The Self Storage Phenomenon, 14 February to 7 April 2019

o What Remains: Traces of Refugees, 17 May 2018 to 13 January 2019

o Otto Wagner, 15 March 2018 to 7 October 2018 

o Vienna Calling! A History of Pop Music, 14 September 2017 to 25 March 2018

o Protestant Vienna: Religious Conflict after Luther, 16 February 2017 to 14 May 2017

o Sex in Vienna. Desire. Control. Transgression, 15 September 2016 to 22 January 2017 

o The Myth of Galicia, 26 March 2015 to 30 August 2015 plus catalogue texts

o A Museum of the Middle Ages, permanent exhibition in the Chapel of St. Virgil

 

 

• Twentyfifty Ltd.

o Translation: Seizing Opportunities, Minimising Risks: Empowering Women in the Supply Chain, Global Compact Network Germany 2018

 

 

• House of Austrian History

o Disposing of Hitler. Out of the Cellar, into the Museum, 12 December 2021 to 9 October 2022

o Buried No Longer. Jewish-Austrian History in Vienna’s Malzgasse, 8 November 2019 to 6 April 2021

o Into the Unknown. Austria since 1918, 10 November 2018 to 17 May 2018

 

 

• Topography of Terror Documentation Centre, Berlin

o The Reich Ministry of Labour 1933–1945: Civil Servants of the Nazi State, 3 April to 8 October 2019

 

 

Music publications

 

• Tonkunstler Orchestra 

o Translation of liner notes with essay by musicologists for numerous CDs released on the Tonkunstler Orchestra’s own label, including:

o Larcher: ‘Alle Tage’ and Violin Concerto, 2022

o Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, 2021

o Brahms: Symphony No. 2 and Haydn Variations, 2021

o Translation of concert programmes, explanatory texts and website content

 

• Grafenegg Festival

o Translation of festival programmes, website content and musicological texts

 

• 1607 ensemble für alte und neue musik

o early music bird: alte neue musik, CD + book, 2022

 



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