Featured:
A selection of inspiring projects
"Med Leo Hansen paa Østgrønland" (A Journey in East Greenland with Leo Hansen)
Danish -> German
"A Journey in East Greenland with Leo Hansen" is a Danish expedition documentary from 1936. It stands out as a rare, historical capsule of Greenland's vast, glaciated and untamed arctic territory from nearly a century ago. The film is directed and narrated by Danish polar cinematographer Leo Hansen.
The project was to create subtitles from audio for a local Swiss cinema. The film was previously only available in the original Danish version, which means the cinema made it accessible to a German-speaking audience for the first time. It is a wonderful piece of environmental history. Here's an excerpt with my German subtitles (shared with the kind permission of Leo Hansen's family):
The film remains a rare historical artifact preserved primarily in Danish archives. It can be viewed in full length under the following link (Danish original without subtitles): Danmark På Film – Med Leo Hansen Paa Østgrønland
"Ilden, Vandet, Jorden, Luften"
(Fire, Water, Earth, Air)
Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese -> German
"Fire, Water, Earth, Air" is a multilingual documentary about climate change in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Faroe Islands.
What makes this film particularly unique is that each location and each language represents an element – fire, water, earth and air.
It portrays the reality of climate change in the Nordic region with breathtaking footage and a beautiful narrative, and explores how language impacts the way we perceive our world.
I had the pleasure to create the German subtitles for a Swiss film festival together with a dear colleague, so we could complement each other's language specialisations. We created the subtitles from scratch and translated directly from the audio, but also had access to both the Danish and English subtitles for reference.
The film celebrated its Swiss premiere at the film festival "Filme für die Erde" in September 2026. I hope you had the chance to enjoy this unique blend of artful narrative and climate action at one of its various locations across Switzerland.
Festival website and trailer with our German subtitles:
