Dolmetscherausbildung im Sozialismus am Beispiel zweier Systeme und ihrer Ausbildungsstätten
Two Systems of Interpreter Training under Socialism and Their Training Institutions

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to investigate the infrastructure of interpreter training in the GDR and Hungary between 1949 and 1989, with particular emphasis on the languages offered by the training institutions. The analysis is performed from the historical and sociological perspective of translation, and the research is based on social constructivist theories of translation studies. The study examines the historical, political and social contexts, the effects of the political transition and the causal relationships, as well as the participants, drawing on data and facts about universities and training facilities. The aim of this study is to outline two systems of interpreter training under socialism, based on numerous political, historical, economic and ideological analogies, while at the same time showing different particularities and characteristics. The primary purpose of this paper is to elicit certain patterns and causal relationships within these systems, rather than to compare them. The two countries and their respective interpreter training programmes are therefore presented as independent profiles.

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