Dr. Berthold Forssman is a linguist of Scandinavian and Indo-European languages by education. He has studied in the universities of Erlangen, Kiel, Reykjavik, and Jena, but his first visit to Latvia turned out to have a tremendous effect on his future career. He wrote his PhD thesis on adverbs in the Baltic languages and is currently working as a translator from the Latvian, Estonian, Swedish, Icelandic and Lithuanian. He is a certified translator for the court of Berlin from Latvian, Swedish, Icelandic and Estonian and among other things he translates legal, economic and other business documents as well as films and press material for German media. He is also a state language examinator for Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages. He is the author of a Latvian grammar book, as well as of a Latvian-German-Latvian dictionary and the Labdien! Latvian textbook. For a long time, he taught Latvian at the Freie Universität Berlin, the German Foreign Ministry and elsewhere. His translations to the German include Anšlavs Eglītis' Homo Novus, Laima Kota's The Mushroom Testament, Edvarts Virza's prose work, Straumēni as well as different fragments for readings and events such as the Leipzig Book Fair.
https://forssman-uebersetzer.de/

Das Champignonvermächtnis : Schwarzarbeit auf der Grünen Insel
Das Champignonvermächtnis : Schwarzarbeit auf der Grünen Insel (Šampinjonu Derība)

Title
: Das Champignonvermächtnis : Schwarzarbeit auf der Grünen InselTitle*
: Šampinjonu DerībaAuthors
:Translated by
:Genre
:Fiction
Language
:German
Publisher
:Weidle Verlag, Germany
Pages
:392
Year
:2008
Synopsis
:The Mushroom Covenant tells the story of a young woman named Īva Baranovska, who goes to Ireland to earn money to pay off her debts and buy a flat back home in Latvia.

Straumēni
Straumēni (Straumēni)

Title
: StraumēniTitle*
: StraumēniAuthors
:Translated by
:Genre
:Fiction
Language
:German
Publisher
:Guggolz Velag, Germany
Pages
:333
Year
:2020
Synopsis
:At the heart of this work are the author’s childhood memories and the stories he heard from his grandparents about the idyllic life of Latvian peasants set in the 19th century.

Homo Novus : ein Künstlerroman aus dem Riga der dreißiger Jahre
Homo Novus : ein Künstlerroman aus dem Riga der dreißiger Jahre (Homo Novus)

Title
: Homo Novus : ein Künstlerroman aus dem Riga der dreißiger JahreTitle*
: Homo NovusAuthors
:Translated by
:Genre
:Fiction
Language
:German
Publisher
:Weidle Verlag, Germany
Pages
:525
Year
:2006
Synopsis
:In the novel, Eglītis shows the Rīga art world in the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a “homo novus”: the new arrival Juris Upenājs.

Schwäbisches Capriccio
Schwäbisches Capriccio (Švābu Kapričo)

Title
: Schwäbisches CapriccioTitle*
: Švābu KapričoAuthors
:Translated by
:Genre
:Fiction
Language
:German
Publisher
:Guggolz Verlag
Pages
:318
Year
:2024
Copyrights
:The author