GERMANY
Literature Translator and member of the International Office at the „Freie Universitat Berlin" – Berlin, Germany
International "Dragi" аward 2024 for the translation of the novel Pirej (Quecke) by Petre M. Andreevski in German
Benjamin Langer was born in 1976 in Erlangen, Germany. He studied German studies and art history in Bamberg and Budapest. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as a lecturer at the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" at the "University of St. Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje. He has been living in Berlin since 2009 where he works in the international office of the "Frei Universität Berlin" and translates Macedonian literature into German.
In 2018 he obtained a doctorate on the topic of Macedonian imaginations in German-language literature.
Langer’s German translations that have been published in Germany collect books by Vlada Urosevic, Goce Smilevski, Petre M. Andreevski, Dejan Trajkovski and Rumena Bužarovska. Most of them attracted great interest in the German media.
In 2017, he was awarded the international award "Blaže Koneski" of the "Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts", and in 2022, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier invited him as a special guest to the delegation accompanying him on his trip to Macedonia and Albania. In his speech to the Macedonian assembly, Steinmeier quotes Petre M. Andreevski’s "Pirej" translated by Benjamin Langer.
He has published a selection of scientific papers and has been part of a large number of events related to literature.