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Brigitte Döbert
(b.1959) lives in Cologne and has been a freelance editor and translator of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian into German since 1996. She studied philosophy, African studies, German studies, and bibliology in Mainz, Germany. During her studies she spent extensive time in Zagreb and Belgrade. She has translated works by Dzevad Karahasan, Miljenko Jergovic, Rujana Jeger, and others.
Eurozine Articles
Sarajevo retro, or The Orient in the Occident
Bosnian Muslims, Bosniaks, or "Turks" are, despite their European origins, considered "foreign": how else can their demonization during the last war be explained? Were it not for Yugoslavia's communist past, during which the "-ic" ending was added to Muslim names and the veil was banned, the impression that Bosnian Muslims "belong elsewhere" would probably be more widespread still. [more]