Anthi Wiedenmayer

Anthi Wiedenmayer graduated in Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies from the University of Mainz, Germany and holds a PhD on the translation of poetry from the University of Athens.
She teaches interpreting, translating and subtitling as Assistant Professor at the Department for German Language and Literature, Aristotle University Thessaloniki. She has been teaching literary translation as visiting professor at the Department for Modern Greek at the Free University of Berlin (2011 and 2013).
She also works as a conference interpreter and translator and has served as Chairman of the Greek Association of Translators (2002-2006), where she is an Honorary Member since 2012.
She is a Founding Member and Board Member of the Greek Society for Translation Studies.
Among her publications are a monograph “The puzzle of translation” (2011) and papers on different subjects in Translation Studies. Her special research fields are literary translation, sociology of translation and didactics of translation and interpreting.