claudia max studierte an der heinrich-heine-universität düsseldorf literaturübersetzen mit dem schwerpunkt anglistik/amerikanistik. seit 2008 ist sie freiberufliche literaturübersetzerin und hat bisher ca. 80 titel aus dem englischen übertragen. 2010 war sie stipendiatin der berliner übersetzerwerkstatt, ihre arbeit wurde mehrfach mit stipendien des deutschen übersetzerfonds ausgezeichnet: 2020 für lidia yuknavitch, the book of joan; 2021 für angeline boulley, the firekeeper’s daughter, 2022 für joanna ho, the silence that binds us; 2023 für lidia yuknavitch, the chronology of water; 2025 für lidia yuknavitch, verge. ihre übersetzung von angeline boulleys roman the firekeeper’s daughter war 2023 für den deutschen jugendliteraturpreis nominiert. sie übersetzt u. a. lidia yuknavitch, margaret atwood und katharena vermette. 2026 short course ‚life writing‘ an der university of arts london central saint martins.
sie lebt in berlin, arbeitet aber überall, denn am liebsten ist sie unterwegs – in büchern und in der welt. Trotz harschem gegenwind bleibt ‘weltbürgerin‘ ein zauberwort für sie. in unbekannte welten durch übersetzung zu vermitteln ist für sie ein weg dorthin. sie liebt geschichten über menschen, die aufbrechen, um sich neu zu erfinden.
–– reading is where the wild things are.
jeanette winterson, why be happy when you could be normal
![**Gaza - No Words - See the Exhibit
„If I must die,“ wrote the late Gazan poet Refaat Alareer, „you must live to tell my story“
Across Palestine and its scattered diaspora, Palestinian women have taken up that call. As bombs fell on Gaza, a Palestinian woman somewhere pulled a red thread through white fabric. With every soul lost, every hospital bombed and every home razed, a Palestinian hand was painstakingly memorialising it. The Gaza Genocide Tapestry became their collective reply to Alareer’s plea.
Hundreds of kilometres apart, from Ramallah to Lebanon’s refugee camps and as far as New Zealand, Palestinian women embroidered one hundred panels that will together form the Gaza Genocide Tapestry, a cross-stitched testimonial that refuses to let the world forget what is being done or to whom.
Each of the tapestry’s panels tells a fragment of the past two years; a child weeping as their world crumbles around them, a home that once carried the laughter of children and mothers now lying in ruins, a man catching on fire and a grandfather hugging
‚the soul of his soul‘ for the last time. When assembled together, the tapestry becomes a collective record of loss and endurance, and an indictment of the deafening silence of world governments in the face of a live-streamed genocide.
Each 80x50 cm piece of the Tapestry consists of 55,000 cross stitches in up to 7 colors. Over 60 Palestinian women in refugee camps and villages of South Lebanon, Jordan and the Occupied West Bank, participated in the project.
By Jihan Alfarrah
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Little girl with water gallons
Basic necessities like safe drinking water are limited in Gaza.
This little girl carries empty water containers through rubble as a heartwarming example of children „wanting to help“, even when they should be playing.
Many children have had to take on difficult responsibilities at a very young age, including the daily struggle to find clean water amidst a tight blockade and ongoing bombardment.
Based on viral video by Abdulrahman Nasir
Embroidery: Ahlam Jamal Salamin, Al-Semou‘, occupied Palestinian Territories
Copyright captions: palestinemuseum.us
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Bottles to Gaza
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