In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte as he virtually sits down with Peter Filkins, Translator and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock. You will hear about Peter's journey teaching his translation course at Bard's College and his experience translating Ingeborg Bachmann. 

Peter Filkins has translated Ingeborg Bachmann’s collected poems, Darkness Spoken, the second expanded edition of which appears in April 2024. His translation of two novel fragments by Bachmann, “The Book of Franza” and “Requiem for Fanny Goldmann,” appeared in 1999 from Northwestern UP. He has also translated three novels by H.G. Adler for Random House – Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall. His biography of Adler, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, was published by Oxford UP in 2019, and his translation of Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death appears this May from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions.

He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and translation at Bard College. He is currently at work on a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann.