Auf Wiedersehen, 2024! Hallo, 2025!

[Photo from Aaron Burden via Unsplash] As I walked down the street toward my house in Aachen earlier this week, clutching an arsenal of cold medicine and paraphernalia, my elderly neighbor caught up with me and lamented the many negative aspects of 2024. In her […]

Join the GLD at ATA65!

#GLDinPortland In a little more than a month, scads of translators and interpreters will be descending on Portland to network and share their knowledge. We hope many of our readers will be among the participants. This year, it’s the GLD’s turn to invite a Distinguished […]

Invitation to Attend the Annual Meeting of All Members

Please join the Leadership Council of the American Translators Association’s German Language Division (GLD) for the Annual Meeting of All Members on October 4, 2024, at 12:00 PM EDT (6:00 PM CET). This is a valuable opportunity for you to hear reports from the Leadership […]

Teaching Medical Language: More Than Words

Like many Western countries, Germany is facing a shortage of skilled labor, particularly in the health care sector. To address this shortfall, health care professionals are being recruited from various regions worldwide. The Triple Win program requires nurses wishing to work in Germany to achieve […]

GLD members from Germany and the US meet up in Cologne

When it comes to virtual meet-ups, the GLD offers a whole range of ways to bridge the distances between its members. Our GLD Listserv, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn pages, along with our division’s regular Zoom socials and educational events, create numerous opportunities for […]

Memories and gratitude

This past year was the GLD’s first year under the leadership of me, Karen Leube (Administrator), and Robin Limmeroth (Assistant Administrator) and the Leadership Council we finished putting together in 2023. It has been an eventful and productive year and we have shared many of the […]

The GLD makes its mark at ATA 64 in Miami

For four days in October, ATA’s German Language Division members had the chance to immerse themselves in a bubble of educational and networking opportunities in (partly) sunny Miami. GLD member Michael Schubert started the ball rolling on Wednesday morning with his AST Day offering entitled […]

German Language Division Members Meeting on Dec. 6 at 5:00 pm CET

Dear GLD Members, As you know, there has been a recent change in division leadership. The GLD is also welcoming several new volunteers on the Leadership Council. We would like to introduce ourselves and our new LC members and share our ideas for events and […]

ATA63: Join us for the GLD networking event in Los Angeles

We invite you to indulge in an exquisite selection of vegetarian and meat-based dishes at the 10e Restaurant in the Fine Arts building of Downtown LA on October 14, 2022 at 7:30 pm. The GLD has a private room reserved, so members can network to […]

Save the date: GLD workshop in Berlin Feb. 2018

Did you know that there is a dedicated group of GLD members living in Europe?* And that we meet up once a year for a workshop? If not, please read the latest issue of Interaktiv for editor Matt Baird’s article on the history of the […]