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Multilingual Competence

Translation true to the original style thanks to fluency in English, French and German.

The film and TV business is getting more international than ever, German production companies work more and more with investors and production companies from abroad. TV shows and films produced abroad are adapted and translated for the German market. Therefore the translator needs to have a firm grasp of the written and spoken language, slang, dialects spoken in the concerning regions and countries. A text cannot be translated literally because humour and lingual systems of the individual cultures are different. The translator needs to analyse every joke and every allusion and adapt them to the target language. The translation should be as exciting, funny and moving as the original text or spoken word. That requires a well-grounded and profound multilingual competence.

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Passion for Languages and Film

Foreign languages, books and films fascinated Karin Thorne already when she was very young. As a result, this passion became her work. She graduated in 1998 at the state language school in Munich (Fremdspracheninstitut der Landeshauptstadt München, Fachakademie) as a state certified translator and interpreter for English and French, specialised in media and economics.  She graduated in 2001 at the university of applied science in Munich first and top of her year as a qualified translator in English and French, specialised in media. Working initially as a translator and interpreter in Germany, the U.S., France and Belgium she never abandoned her love for film and TV. This passion set Karin on a 12 year journey as an Assistant Director (1st AD) working mostly for German film and television, while privately writing screenplays and short stories in English, French and German. Since 2016 she has focused on translating screenplays, treatments and exposés including subtitling and transcription of films, documentaries and TV shows.

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