ATA Jahreskonferenz

GLD Networking Event at ATA67
Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 7:00–9:00 pm | Perry’s Embarcadero

Join us for the GLD Networking Dinner on Thursday, October 29, 2026, from 7:00-9:00 pm at Perry’s Embarcadero!

Perry’s Embarcadero is located at 155 Steuart St., San Francisco, CA, 94105, just a 7–8-minute walk along the waterfront from the hotel. We will be dining in a private room that seats 35 people, so registration is limited to 35.

The price per person of $76 includes your choice of one of three main courses: Grilled Salmon (with Lemon Caper Butter Sauce over Mashed Potatoes & Sautéed Vegetables, Spaghetti with Roasted Vegetables (vegan), or The Perry’s Cheeseburger (with Cheddar & French Fries), as well as dessert: Chef’s Mini Sweets, which includes chocolate-covered strawberries, mini cheesecakes, and chocolate chip cookies (approximately 4 pcs. per person).

You will be asked to select your entrée when you sign up for the dinner.

The $76 dinner cost also includes taxes, the San Francisco health insurance mandate, gratuities, and the restaurant’s coordination fee (totaling 39.625% in all). Please note that the CheddarUp platform also charges a small fee.

Beverages are not included and are to be paid individually. Since the restaurant will only accept a maximum of 4 credit cards for payment that evening, Karen and Robin will have to personally collect the costs for your drinks in cash at the end of the evening (plus the 39.625% taxes and gratuities) and pay them along with the entire bill, so please remember to bring cash for your drinks.

All ticket sales end Monday, October 12, 2026 or when tickets are sold out. Tickets are nonrefundable.

All ATA conference attendees (and spouses/partners) are welcome to sign up. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this exciting evening networking event with your GLD colleagues in San Francisco!

Click here to sign up.

Questions? Contact Robin Limmeroth at robin@robin-limmeroth.com or on WhatsApp under +49 1792038541 or +1 272-213-9707

Michael Hofmann is a poet, translator, critic, and essayist whose acclaimed translations have brought some of the most important German-language writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to English-language readers. He has translated more than 70 books from German, including works by Joseph Roth, Franz Kafka, Alfred Döblin, Hans Fallada, Irmgard Keun, Wolfgang Koeppen, Peter Stamm, and Jenny Erpenbeck.

In 2024, Hofmann was awarded the International Booker Prize for his translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos. His many other honors for translation include the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, which he has received four times. He has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Thornton Wilder Prize in Translation.

Born in Freiburg, Germany, Hofmann moved to the United Kingdom as a child and studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is also an acclaimed poet whose collections include Nights in the Iron Hotel, Acrimony, Selected Poems, and One Lark, One Horse. He edited Twentieth Century German Poetry and has published two collections of essays, Behind the Lines and Where Have You Been?

Hofmann’s reviews and essays have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and Australian Book Review. He teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Florida.