The Translation People are pleased to welcome Denise Sauer to the Birmingham team. Denise completed her undergraduate studies in Würzburg, Germany, at the Würzburger Dolmetscherschule (school for translators and interpreters). She specialised in economics, with English being her first and Spanish her second foreign language. In 2008, after graduating as a certified translator and interpreter (German and English), she moved to Birmingham to start an MA course at Aston University. During her course, MA in Translation in a European Context, Denise studied theoretical concepts of translation amongst other subjects. The study of theoretical aspects aroused her interest in how translations can affect societies, which is also reflected in her MA dissertation, in which she analyses and describes the first English translation of Grimms’ fairy tales and its effects on English children’s literature in nineteenth century England.

After her studies, Denise worked as an in-house translator in Lichfield/Staffordshire. During this time, she  introduced memoQ to make translation processes in the company she worked for more efficient. In her new role as Account Manager, she is looking forward to working with different people from all sorts of cultures and to meeting customers’ translation needs. In her spare time, Denise likes to travel (particularly city trips) and horse riding, a hobby which she hopes she can take up again in Birmingham in the near future.