Translation (German to French)
Phone: +49 (0)681 302-3395
E-Mail: slaven.waelti@khk.uni-saarland.de
Slaven Waelti is a translator and literary scholar. He studied philosophy and French literature at the University of Basel, where he also taught for several years. His research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, took him during his doctoral and postdoctoral work to the ENS in Paris, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Harvard University. His dissertation, “Klossowski l’incommunicable: Lectures complices de Gide, Bataille et Nietzsche” (The incommunicable Klossowski: complicit readings of Gide, Bataille, and Nietzsche),defended at the University of Basel in 2012, is primarily concerned with the difficulties of translation. After a residency at the Institute of Advance Studies in Nantes, where approached intercultural dialogue between scholars as equally significant to research, he decided to devote his energies more fully toward translation. In 2023, he graduated from the School of Literary Translation in Paris.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Klossowski l’incommunicable: Lectures complices de Gide, Bataille et Nietzsche. Droz, 2015.
- “Friedrich A. Kittler: Esthétique et théorie des médias”. Edited with Audrey Rieber. Special issue, Appareil 19 (2017). https://journals.openedition.org/appareil/6141.
- “Pensée et représentation de l’optimum au temps des Lumières (1680-1789)”. Edited with Sarah Diane Bourdely and Adrien Paschoud. Special issue, Etudes Epistémè: Revue de littérature et de civilisation (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles) 44 (2023). https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/16941.
- Friedrich Kittler, Médias optiques: Cours berlinois 1999. Translated by Slaven Waelti, Anaïs Carvalho, Tamara Eble, and Ève Vayssière, edited by Audrey Rieber. L’Harmattan, 2015.
- Hermann Nitsch. “Monet” and “resurrection”. Translated by Slaven Waelti. In Hermann Nitsch Hommage, edited by Musée de l’Orangerie. Skira, 2023.
- Hans-Michael Koetzle. “Paul Wolff: une star en son temps”. Translated by Slaven Waelti. In Dr Paul Wolff L’homme au leica, edited by Pavillon Populaire. Hazan, 2024.
