Translation 1 6e: Text 6 plus some English stuff page

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Edward Martin, Anglistik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz Campus, Summer Semester 2005
Translation 1
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German text
Model translation with highlighted points
Selected language notes from the class (past perfect)
Matching English articles (highlighted)
Translation 1 (E. Martin, Anglistik) - Summer 2005
Text 6
Translate the following newspaper text into English.
TIP The exam is not too far away, so try this: first look for matching articles, do your
highlighting, learning the vocabulary as you go through the texts, and then try to write your
translation in 90 minutes using only your monolingual dictionaries.
Vocabulary This is another chance to use some of the terminology from the Michael Jackson trial; in addition,
Grammar This week’s article gives you more practice with tenses, present perfect, past and past perfect; look
back at the language notes in the 5e file and see how you can apply them to this text. Also, there are some
syntax challenges: an adjectival participle phrase at the end of the third paragraph and a long sentence at the
end of the fourth paragraph.
Idiomatic expressions: I'
ve italicised some idiomatic German words and phrases that might cause you
problems because they might not feature in matching texts. Try and translate them under exam conditions
(without reference to a bilingual dictionary or matching articles). After you have done your translation under
exam conditions, use your bilingual dictionary to start looking for an idiomatic translation of these words, but –
of course - check everything in an English source before using it.
Mississippi burn out: Ku-Klux-Klan-Mann schuldig gesprochen
Ku-Klux-Klan-Führer
Killen vor Gericht
In dem spektakulären Prozeß im amerikanischen Bundesstaat
Mississippi um einen rassistisch motivierten Mord an drei
Bürgerrechtlern vor 41 Jahren ist ein früheres Führungsmitglied des
Ku Klux Klan des Totschlags für schuldig befunden worden. Die
zwölf Geschworenen in der Kleinstadt Philadelphia kamen am
Dienstag nach eintägigen Beratungen zu diesem Urteil.
Das Strafmaß gegen den heute 80 Jahren alten Laienprediger und Sägewerksbetreiber Edgar
Ray Killen soll zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt verkündet werden. Die Bluttat war durch den
Film „Mississippi Burning” von 1988 weltweit in Erinnerung gerufen worden.
Killen hatte vier Jahrzehnte lang unbehelligt auf seiner Farm gelebt. Die Ermittlungen gegen
ihn wurden erst nach einer massiven Kampagne von Bürgerrechtlern neu aufgerollt. In einem
früheren Verfahren um den Dreifachmord in den sechziger Jahren war Killen ungeschoren
davon gekommen, weil die ausschließlich aus Weißen bestehende Jury sich nicht auf einen
Schuldspruch hatte einigen können.
Die drei Bürgerrechtler, ein Afroamerikaner und zwei Weiße, waren im Juni 1964 im Rahmen
des „Freedom Summer”, einer Kampagne zur Registrierung schwarzer Wähler, in Mississippi
unterwegs gewesen, als sie in das Visier des Klan gerieten. Während die drei jungen Männer
wegen Raserei am Steuer stundenlang vom örtlichen Sheriff eingesperrt wurden, soll Killen
laut Anklageschrift eine Gruppe von Gesinnungsgenossen zusammengetrommelt haben, die
später auf einer einsamen Landstraße in zwei Wagen hinter den Aktivisten herjagten.
(Don’t translate – just for your information.) Sechs Wochen später entdeckten FBI-Beamte im Rahmen
einer der bis dahin größten aller Ermittlungsaktionen der amerikanischen Bundespolizei die drei
Leichen unter einem Erddamm.
F.A.Z., 21.06.2005 Bildmaterial: dpa/dpaweb http://www.faz.net
Mississippi burnout(?) – Ku Klux Klan man found guilty
In the sensational trial of a racially motivated murder of three civil
rights workers/activists 41 years ago in the US state of
Mississippi, a former leading member of the Ku Klux Klan / a
former KKK leader has been found guilty of manslaughter. The
twelve jurors/ members of the jury in the small town of
Philadelphia reached this verdict on Tuesday after one day of
deliberations.
The sentence facing the now 80-year-old lay preacher and
sawmill-owner Ray Killen is to be announced at a later date. The
world was reminded of the slaying by / The slaying was
immortalised/ commemorated worldwide by the 1988 film
Mississippi Burning.
Killen had lived undisturbed on his farm for four decades. The
investigation against him was re-opened only after a massive
campaign by civil rights activists. In an earlier trial of the triple
murder in the sixties, Killen got off scot-free because the all-white
jury could not agree on a guilty verdict / was deadlocked.
The three civil rights activists, an Afro-American and two whites,
were travelling in Mississippi in June 1964 in connection with the
Freedom Summer, a campaign to register black voters, when they
became a target for the Klan. While the three young men were
locked up for hours by the local sheriff for speeding, Killen,
according to the indictment, rounded up a group of fellow
Klansmen, who later chased after/ hunted down the activists in
two vehicles on a remote country road.
Time and tenses: the past perfect in German and English
In dem Prozeß um einen Mord vor 41 Jahren ist ein Mitglied des
KKK des Totschlags für schuldig befunden worden.
• recent indefinite past + present result = present perfect
always the same in English
In the trial of a murder 41 years ago a member of the KKK has
been found guilty of manslaughter.
Die zwölf Geschworenen in der Kleinstadt Philadelphia kamen
am Dienstag nach eintägigen Beratungen zu diesem Urteil.
• definite past time = past tense – always the same in English
The twelve members of the jury in the small town of Philadelphia
reached this verdict on Tuesday after one day of deliberations.
Die Bluttat war durch den Film „Mississippi Burning” von 1988
weltweit in Erinnerung gerufen worden.
• pre-past time = past perfect – not always in English!
The world was reminded of the killing by the 1988 film
• The time adjective 1988 tells us it is the pre-past, so we
use the past tense and see 1988 as a past-time marker –
We prefer the past tense to the past perfect and avoid it
where possible.
Killen hatte 4 Jahrzehnte lang unbehelligt auf seiner Farm gelebt.
• pre-past time = past perfect – the same in English when the
tense is the only indicator of pre-past time
Killen had lived in peace on his farm for four decades.
In einem früheren Verfahren um den Dreifachmord in den
sechziger Jahren war Killen ungeschoren davon gekommen
In an earlier trial of the triple murder in the sixties, Killen got off
scot-free.
• The time adverbial “in an earlier trial” tells us clearly it is
the pre-past, so we can also use the adverbial as a pasttime marker (past perfect also possible).
Die drei Bürgerrechtler waren im Juni 1964 in Mississippi
unterwegs gewesen
The three civil rights activists were travelling in Mississippi in
June 1964…
•
The time adverbial “in June 1964” tells us clearly it is the
pre-past, so we would usually use the clear past-time
adverbial as a past-time marker for the past tense.
Independent Home
Former Mississippi Klan leader guilty of
killing activists
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
22 June 2005
Rita Bender had waited more than four decades to see the man who organised the killing of her
husband and his two colleagues brought to justice.
Yesterday, exactly 41 years after three
civil rights activists were pulled from their car and
shot dead on a back-country road in Mississippi, a sick and ageing former member
of the Ku Klux Klan was convicted over their deaths.
Edgar Ray Killen, 80, sat almost motionless as the
jury's verdict convicting him of three
counts of manslaughter but clearing him of murder was read out in the courtroom in
Philadelphia, Mississippi. He sat with an oxygen tube attached to his nose and mouth as his wife
hugged him in sympathy.
Prosecutors had originally only charged Killen with murder. But while there was broad
evidence of his involvement in the plot to kill the activists, prosecutors were unable to prove he had
been present at the precise moment of their deaths. As a result, they also charged him with
manslaughter - a charge that the panel of nine white and three black jurors apparently found easier
to agree to. He faces 20 years in jail and will be sentenced on Thursday.
"The window is open, the light, has not come in completely," Mrs Bender said after the verdict was
delivered. "The fact that some members of that jury have sat through that testimony and could not
bring themselves to admit that those were murders, with malice, indicates that there are still people
among you who choose to look aside and not see the truth and that means there is a lot more yet to
be done. I would hope that this case is just a beginning and not the end."
She added: "Killen didn'
t act in a vacuum. The state of Mississippi was complicit in these
crimes and all the crimes that occurred, and that has to be opened up."
It was on the night of 21 June 1964 that James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 20, and 26-year-old
Michael Schwerner "disappeared" after driving between Philadelphia and the nearby city of
Meridian. Their burnt-out car was found in a swamp and, more than 40 days later, their
bodies were discovered buried at the bottom of an earth dam.
Back then, Mrs Bender was Rita Schwerner, married to her husband for little more than a year,
when they both drove from their Brooklyn apartment in New York to take part in what was
known as the Mississippi Freedom Summer - an effort to register black
voters across the South and help force racial integration in those communities must strongly
opposed to it.
Immortalised by the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, the killing of the three
activists - one local black man and two white Jews - took place in a state that had few
equals when it came to opposing such integration. Mrs Bender'
s husband, though only 26, had been
identified by the Klan as a target as a result of his tireless work to register voters in Meridian.
Killen, a sawmill owner and part-time preacher who was once a senior official
or Kleagle with a local chapter of the KKK, was one of 18 men originally charged over the killings.
Their trial in 1967 - which followed three years of investigation and legal efforts by the
federal authorities - resulted in the conviction of seven of Killen'
s friends but in his case a hung
jury.
Killen might have lived out his years on his home outside Philadelphia, where a sign bearing the
words of the Ten Commandments stands in his front garden, but for fresh evidence gathered by the
state prosecutor. That emerged from an interview that another senior Klan official gave in prison
and was subsequently published by the Clarion-Ledger newspaper. Subsequent inquiries led to the
charging of Killen last January with one of the most high profile remaining cases from the civil
rights era.
The decision to prosecute Killen four decades after the killing brought divisions to the local
community.
Some argued that, for the community to put the past behind it, justice had to be seen to be done.
Others - while not condoning the killings - said a trial would simply stir up old antagonisms.
© 2004 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
Ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, 80, faces jail over killings
By Harry Mount in New York
(Filed: 22/06/2005) Telegraph
One of the ugliest chapters of America'
s civil rights era was closed yesterday when a preacher and
former Ku Klux Klan leader was found guilty of ordering the killings of three young
activists 41 years to the day after their deaths.
Edgar Ray Killen, 80, faces
a minimum sentence of 20 years after he was convicted on
three counts of manslaughter by a mainly white jury in the town of Philadelphia,
Mississippi.
The jury decided that Killen had organised the killing of New Yorkers
Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, and James Chaney, 21,
from Mississippi. The three men had gone to Neshoba County to investigate
the burning of a black church, to build a community centre for black
children and to register black voters.
They were held at a police station on trumped-up
speeding charges then released late at night and ambushed by
members of the Klan and police. Their bodies, beaten and riddled with
bullets, were dumped under an earthen dam.
Edgar Ray Killen
Relatives of the three men welcomed the verdict in the case, which had inspired the
1988 film
Mississippi Burning, but said more steps must be taken to rid the Deep South of its racist
past.
Prosecutors were forced to drop murder charges to secure a conviction. Rita Bender, Michael
Schwerner'
s widow, said of the jury outside the courtroom: "I thank you. This is a day of
importance."
Ben Chaney, James Chaney'
s brother, said: "We could have got more but we'
ll take what we'
ve got.
The judge was hard but fair. This community has a serious problem here. '
'
Forty years ago, three
men came here to improve things. Still there are no black businesses downtown. We can socialise at
night but, when the sun comes up, we'
re separated."
Killen showed no emotion in court. He appeared in a wheelchair and needed oxygen. During the
trial, witnesses and FBI records revealed that he organised cars to follow the victims, intercepted
the three men in their estate car, told Klansmen to wear plastic gloves and helped arrange for a
bulldozer to bury the bodies.
The testimony of witnesses who have died since the murders was read out in court, recalling that
Killen had said: "We took care of the civil rights workers."
Killen, who did not take the stand and is to appeal against the conviction, maintained that he was at
a wake in a funeral parlour on the evening of the murders.
In his first trial, in 1967, when seven men were convicted of the killings, he was acquitted
because a juror felt unable to convict a preacher.
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