Transfiction is a collective of experienced native-speaker translators with offices in Berlin and Hamburg. We specialise in the translation of literary fiction and non-fiction, cultural and academic texts, as well as marketing and communication materials for a wide range of arts and business clients.

Our services

We offer a full package of professional translation services from German to English and vice versa:

  • Translation
  • Proofreading
  • Editing
  • Copywriting
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What our clients say

Brigitte Beiling, Press and Public Relations, Web Editor Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design

Vielen Dank für Ihre wunderbaren Übersetzungen, sie lesen sich ganz wunderbar.

“This is an extremely funny book. All credit to translator Lucy Jones here, for the humour is largely in the writing, with rhythms, bathos and the subversion of expectations all delivering laughs.”

Review of Higher Ground by Ann Morgan

Regine Gödecke, Collection Management, Painting and Sculpture Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich Ihnen schon gesagt habe, dass ich ein großer Fan Ihrer Übersetzungen bin.

Sebastian Zabel, Chief Editor, Rolling Stone

Thank you very much for your fine piece of work!

“Lucy Jones does a masterful job of conveying that very German tone, while at the same time finding passable English equivalent for distinctly German terms (…) In her translation, Jones passes on the feeling of intimacy and despair that Stelling has conjured within the four walls of Resi’s broom closet, never violating her privacy and respite.”

Review of Higher Ground by Elizabeth Yearsely

“[P]assionate self-reflection, political insight and a fierce commitment to the art of fiction on practically every page . ..”

(Review of I Have No Regrets in the TLS, 9 Oct 2020 by Ian Ellison)