Frauke Berndt, Vacillating Voices: Generic Ambiguity in Modern German Literature — diaphanes Between Figure and Ground, ed. Saskia C. Quené — Deutscher Kunstverlag Cézanne — Fondation Beyeler / Hatje Cantz Text as Source and Material in Contemporary Music Theatre, ed. Christa Brüstle — Universal Edition Jeff Wall — Fondation Beyeler Josef Albers, Interaction — Yale University Press RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 73/74 — University of Chicago Press Unavailable: The Joy of Not Responding — Kadmos Josef Albers: Homage to the Square 1950–1976 — Hatje Cantz Georg Kreis, Why Italy Was for Europe — Schwabe Van Gogh and the Stars — Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
The Germanic Review 99.3 — Routledge Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 3.2018 — Deutscher Kunstverlag Film still from Habibi Sami, documentary by Lesley Kennel (2025) — point de vue Textile Terms: A Glossary — Edition Imorde Bernhard Fuchs, Fathom — Koenig Books Segnali di vita — Swiss Films Raimund Girke, Between White — Axel Vervoordt Ambiguity in Contemporary Art and Theory — Felix Meiner Philosophy of Emotion — Routledge caa.reviews Luca Del Baldo, The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality — De Gruyter
Paramyth: The Mythological Dimensions of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, ed. Klaus Müller-Wille and Alexia Panagiotidis — J.B. Metzler MLN 131.3, German Issue — Johns Hopkins University Press Film still from Merkwürdige Dreiecke, documentary (in production) — point de vue Problemi International 6 (2023): Master/s Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935–2020 — Bloomsbury Matthias Schaller, Das Meisterstück What Images Do — Aarhus University Press CIHA 2012 Nürnberg — Germanisches Nationalmuseum Gottfried Boehm, Sehen — Kann Verlag Lichtspieler — Praesens Colloquia Germanica 53.4 — Narr Francke Attempto
Frauke Berndt, Facing Poetry — De Gruyter Militarizing Outer Space — Palgrave Macmillan Clemens Risi, Opera in Performance — Routledge James Howell: Painting — Hatje Cantz Wagner in Context, ed. David Trippett — Cambridge University Press Truth in Serial Form, ed. Malika Maskarinec — De Gruyter Gottfried Boehm, The Passion of Images — Walther König Walter Moroder: Figures of Presence and Absence — Hatje Cantz Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science — De Gruyter Forces of Nature, ed. Adrian Renner and Frederike Middelhoff — De Gruyter Enthüllen und Verbergen in der Vormoderne — Brill Fink

Published translations

Translation and editing for texts in the humanities, social sciences, arts, and culture, including exhibition catalogues, scholarly essays, and grant applications.

01Services

Translation

German → English

Translations in the humanities and social sciences, with attention to each author’s voice and each field’s expectations.

  • Full monographs
  • Exhibition and collection catalogues
  • Art theory and artists’ writings
  • Philosophy and literary theory
  • Journal articles and edited volumes
  • Grant applications

Editing

English

Careful editing of English-language manuscripts, including texts by nonnative authors and machine translations.

  • Developmental editing structure and sources
  • Line editing word choice and style
  • Copyediting consistency and accuracy
  • Proofreading final check before publication

I typically begin with a sample translation of two to three pages so we can assess fit.

02Published with

Translations and editing for universities, academic presses, art publishers, and museums.

  • University of Chicago Press
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Yale University Press
  • Bloomsbury
  • Hatje Cantz
  • Felix Meiner
  • Schwabe
  • Routledge
  • diaphanes
  • Wilhelm Fink
  • Walther König
  • J. B. Metzler
  • Johns Hopkins University Press
  • SAGE
  • De Gruyter
  • Fondation Beyeler
  • Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop
  • Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
  • University of Basel
  • University of Zurich

03About

Anthony Mahler

Anthony Mahler

Anthony Mahler has been translating and editing scholarly and art writing since 2015, for academic presses, museums, and art publishers. He received his PhD in Germanic studies from the University of Chicago in 2014, after a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and studies in Berlin, Konstanz, and Tübingen. He has held postdoctoral positions in Tübingen and Zurich and has received research grants from the SNSF, the Mellon Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. He teaches at the Language Center of the University of Basel and has lived in Basel with his family since 2012. He reads closely, cares about every text, and enjoys working with authors.

04Contact

For new projects, a sample translation, or a conversation about a manuscript, write to me directly.

anthony.mahler@gmail.com

German–English translator and editor based in Basel, Switzerland, working with authors, publishers, and institutions internationally.