Continuous Further Training
In the course of my professional life as translator I have always been keen on keeping myself up-to-date in the trade and have attended various vocational training events, featuring such interesting aspects of my work as
| 2003 | weekend course on TRADOS II at Saarbrücken University, staged by BDÜ, instructor: K. H. Freigang |
| 2008 | one-week interpreter's training for translators at Germersheim International Summer School of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 2009 | one-day seminar: Translating Contracts, IFA Erlangen, staged by BDÜ, lecturer: Barbara Müller-Grant |
| 2011 | one-day seminar: Stylistic Traps in Technical English, Frankfurt, staged by BDÜ and presented by David Burckhardt |
| 2012 | one-day workshop about SDL Trados Studio for version switchers, Munich, staged by BDÜ, instructor team: Annette Hunger and Manfred Altmann |
| 2013 | weekend seminar: Translating for Notaries, SDI Munich, staged by BDÜ, lecturers: Barbara Müller-Grant and Heike Simon |
| 2015 | one-day seminar: Textile Technology & Technical Fibres, IFA Erlangen, staged by BDÜ, lecturer: Ilona Futó |
| 2015 | weekend seminar: Technical Writing in English, Berlin, staged by BDÜ and presented by David Burckhardt |
| 2016 | one-day seminar: Legal English – Contract Law, Munich, staged by BDÜ and presented by Stuart G. Bugg |
| 2021 | webinar series on Copyediting, staged by BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlags GmbH and presented by Henrike Doerr |
| 2021 | webinar series on Contracts in English, staged by BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlags GmbH, presented by Christin Dallmann, attorney, and Richard Delaney, Barrister-at-Law (non-practising) | 2021 | webinar series on Literary Translation, staged by BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlags GmbH, presented by Felix Mayer, featuring such interesting aspects as 'Translating for publishing houses', 'IP law and contracts', 'Ways into the profession'. | 2022 | webinar: Spring Clean-up in your Terminology Database, staged by Büro b3, presented by Beate Früh and Pascal Müller | 2023 | webinar: Creating specific XML file types for Trados Studio, staged by RWS and presented by Thomas Imhoff | 2023 | webinar: Cybercrime Awareness, Online lecture by BKA |