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SUMMARY:CTIS Seminar: "I will try to speak in German": Filip Müller’s Tes
 timony to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the Problem of Translation
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DESCRIPTION:Filip Müller (1922-2013) was one of the key witnesses at the 
 trial of former Auschwitz guards\, held in Frankfurt 1963-65. A Slovak J
 ew who was deported on one of the early transports to Auschwitz in April
  1942\, Müller was one of the few survivors of the 'Sonderkommandos' (sp
 ecial squads) who were forced to dispose of the bodies of prisoners who 
 had been murdered in the gas chambers. After the end of the War\, he gav
 e testimony to trials in Czechosolovakia and West Germany\, finally emig
 rating to West Germany in 1969. His testimony plays a prominent role in 
 Claude Lanzmann's film 'Shoah' (1985) as well as providing important ins
 piration for László Nemes's 'Son of Saul' (2015). \n<p>\nThis paper expl
 ores the role of translation in his witness testimony in Frankfurt. Spea
 king in imperfect German before the judge\, and supported by the interpr
 eter Otto Stegmann\, Müller's testimony emerges in a process of collabor
 ation and conflict between these three actors\, all of whom\, in their o
 wn ways\, are engaged in translation activity. Making visible the effect
 s of translation in this context gives us a clearer view of the conditio
 ns under which testimony is produced\, and the different interests and p
 erspectives that the agents involved bring to the process.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Theatre D\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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