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… tapping the full potential of your text

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References

References

Here is a selection of my clients:

Flick Gocke Schaumburg, Berlin
Noerr LLP, Berlin
DWS Steuerberater-Online-GmbH, Berlin
Andersch AG WPG, Frankfurt/Main
GSW Immobilien AG, Berlin
Alpers & Stenger LLP, Hamburg
Renowned law firm specializing in real estate and renewable energies, Hamburg
Freiburg University, Center for Business and Law
(Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kessler)

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  • For the “Master of Arts (Taxation)” program:
    Conceptualized and held a German-language workshop
    Text-Training 2.0 — Bessere Fachtexte schreiben leichtgemacht ["Text training 2.0 — How to write better professional texts"]

Frankfurt International School, Oberursel
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
portrait Wolfgang Pasternak

Welcome

Welcome

… to my website, and thanks for visiting.

I am a multilingual Berlin-based German qualified attorney and German qualified tax advisor with longstanding transaction experience in tax law and real estate; in addition, I am a State-certified translator ENG–GER / GER–ENG and a Court-certified translator of the English language for the courts and notaries of Berlin.

Combining my qualifications, I offer professional translation as well as copy-editing services in the fields of law, tax and business, thus tapping the full potential of your text.

I invite you to check out the different pages featuring my profile and my work, and to find out why I am the right professional for your needs.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. I will be more than happy to advise you.

Kind regards,

Wolfgang Pasternak

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My credentials

My credentials as an editor and translator

[beyond that set out under About me:]

I am a member of the German Association of Freelance Copy Editors (VFLL).

My (German-language) profile in the VFLL database can be accessed here.


In addition, I am a member of the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ).

My (German-language) profile in the BDÜ database can be accessed here.


Language and communication have always been at the heart of my professional activity.

I have accumulated many years of professional work experience dealing with tax law in a global company. Opinions, reports, memos, presentations, technical papers, product leaflets, newsletters, and communication with clients, business associates as well as internal and external colleagues were my stock-in-trade — just like translating fact patterns, assessments and information: both linguistically and culturally, as well as both into German and from German.

My approach

My approach

I would like to share some thoughts with you about my professional philosophy and approach as a copy editor and translator:

In a nutshell

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  • Any text that you send out is your ‘business card’, no matter whether it is an e‑mail to a single client, a newsletter to all of your clients, a scientific paper or a business report to the professional public at large, or a technical translation for a specific purpose.
  • This holds even more true where you address an audience in their native language which is a foreign language to you – for instance, German.
  • You attach great importance to your market appearance. That is why you engage professionals, for instance, when it comes to designing and printing your business cards.
  • But what about your texts?
  • Let me assist you in presenting yourself to your German-language clients (and prospective ones) in an accomplished manner: easy to read, comprehensible, tailored to occasion and target audience, in short: professionally.

Why you need me

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  • Good, effective and customer-oriented communication is not a luxury but a necessity – with ramifications for your standing and ultimately your commercial success.
  • Whether a business report, scientific paper, contribution to a reference book, other technical publication, opinion, report, study, memo, presentation, newsletter, website content, or ‘merely’ an important letter or e‑mail: Professional editing taps the full potential of your text, prevents costly and frustrating inefficiencies, and not least saves precious time and money.

What you can expect of me

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  • Legal, tax and business fact patterns and remarks are often complex. This makes it even more important for them to be well-structured and expressed in precise and clear language. On this point, I concur with Albert Einstein: “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
  • I will peruse your German-language text as thoroughly as necessary and as efficiently as possible.
  • In correcting your text, I will eliminate mistakes with regard to spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
  • I will review your text (if applicable taking into account its original version, for instance in English): Is it intelligible, colorful, easy to read, tailored to the particular occasion and target audience; is it concise, well-structured and appealing in terms of style and mode of expression?
  • My particular strong suit (and for many clients my decisive added value): To the extent desired, I will prepare detailed specific suggestions for alternative phrasing, for more precision as to content and language, and for changes in text structure.
  • I also translate into German, e.g. from an English-language original.
  • Just to be clear: I am not talking about ghostwriting or completely re-writing your text. Rather, my intention is to bring out your message more clearly so that your target audience will find it easier to read and understand.

Why I am the right person for your requirements

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  • Take advantage of my multiple qualifications:
    • As an experienced copy editor, I revise your text with linguistic competence and reliability. As an experienced translator, I prepare translations that meet high professional standards.
    • As a German qualified lawyer and tax advisor with a Ph.D., I am proficient in the technical language and familiar with the necessary balance between the need for clarity and intelligibility and the need for the required degree of precision and differentiation. I will therefore revise or translate your text with adequate technical delicacy.
    • Finally, as a practitioner with longstanding transaction experience in the fields of tax law and real estate with a global business enterprise, I am well-versed in the legal, tax and business sectors, their working situations, procedures, and dynamics.
  • For all of the above, I know what I am talking about and what matters.

 

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    pro editorial office dr. pasternak
    Dr Wolfgang Pasternak, LL.M.
    Pasternak Wolfgang
    Editing and translation services
    Privatstraße 13 Nr. 10
    13086  Berlin
    Germany
    Cell: +49 / (0)179 / 394 68 89
    FAX +49 / 30 / 32 59 75 25
    contact@lektorat-pasternak.de
    http://lektorat-pasternak.de

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