A book in which the Austrian-born, London-based photographer Marion Trestler documents the lives and stories of Austrian women who came to the United Kingdom to work after 1945. This project was featured in the Southbank Women of the World festival and BBC Women’s Hour. I translated some parts of the book, which contains both German and English sections, and edited others.
Marcus Spangenberg, Ludwig II: A Different Kind of King (Regensburg: Pustet Verlag, 2015).
Part of Pustet’s series of “little Bavarian biographies”, this delightful book presents the tragic life of Bavaria’s most famous king…
Thomas Vormbaum, A Modern History of German Criminal Law. Ed. Michael Bohlander (Berlin: Springer, 2014).
This seminal book provides an overview of German criminal law - one of the most important civil law systems -…
Rolf Niehoff and Kunibert Bering, Visual Proficiency (Oberhausen: Athena Verlag, 2015).
This seminal work on how we “read” and interpret visual images was written by two of Germany’s leading art educationalists.…
Kirstin von Glasow, 111 Shops in London That You Shouldn’t Miss (Cologne: emons, 2014).
A “sophisticated shopping guide”, as the book’s title page promises, to some of London’s most interesting and quirky independent shops.…