Staging 'Swissness': Inter- and Intracultural Theatre Translation

Wilkinson, Jane

Abstract

This paper examines the choice to translate plays from ‘Hochdeutsch’ (the standard form of the German language) into local dialect in German-speaking Switzerland. It first looks at the creative process of translating for the amateur stage and then at the reasons behind the choice to translate. It argues that this choice reflects a desire to promote local and national identities through language and to resist the dominance of German and transnational culture.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jan 5, 2009
• Publication Date: 2005
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2019
• Print ISSN: 1470-8477
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 72-85
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14708470508668884
• Keywords: dialect, diglossia, identity, theatre, translation
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1978777
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14708470508668884