Trude Stegmann

Literary translator from English into German. My translations include books on art and architecture, gardening, children's books, fiction (historic novels, satire, poetry) and non-fiction (infotainment, popular science). I have translated video scripts and done sound track quality control. I have also plenty of experience as researcher, proof reader and copy writer (German: "Texter"). Special interests: Gardening, Modern Art, Oriental (=Far Eastern) Art, Architecture and Design

• Promoted four times, progressing from Conservation Technician to Conservation Project Supervisor. Expert in architectural drawings conservation. Workshop supervisor for Heritage Lottery-funded „London‘s Theatreland“-Internship project. Pioneering techniques of tracing paper repair. • Only conservator-on-site during the move of the complete archive from the London Guildhall to the LMA. Responsible for packaging a collection including objects of World Heritage Status.

Project assistant in two pilot projects for websites related to national databases with two national organisations (see below), financed by the British Academy and King's College London. a) Project assistant for the CVMA (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi) and the British national register of stained glass. b) Project assistant and photographic archive conservator for the CRSBI (Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland).

Paper and photograph conservation, conservation of ethnographical objects, conservation of fans, history of ethnographic collecting, anthropology of art, museum studies, exoticism in literature and art, Baroque and Renaissance literature (German and English), Goethe.