Announcement: Article in Universitas Fachmagazin 4/26

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I co-authored a short article in German with Katarina Rohsmann for the latest edition of Universitas Members Magazine (Fachmagazin), which has just been published. Thanks are due to Tamara Paludo and her editorial team at Universitas for putting together a beautiful edition of the magazine. Last Friday I also held a physical copy in my hand before reading online. Even in 2026, the haptic quality of print media remains satisfying!

In addition, thanks are again due to the participants at the 9th ASTTI Financial Translation Summer Conference at which I spoke in July, especially Michael Dever and Beata Marchand for all their hard work in organising the event in Spiez.

Katarina and I wrote a brief summary about the event – its USP as far as a CPD event goes lies in the fact that it has a focus on expertise. It is also an event that is genuinely interesting to attend for mid-late career translators, where traditionally the self-reflection upon leaving an event is about what you have got from it. Spiez is an institution and I always return with new ideas and insights (and often a new book or two from other speakers!).

Katarina also wrote a great piece about tips for freelancers – check out pages 6-11.

In addition there was a very pleasing “hat-tip” from Universitas President, Thomas Musyl about my XITL approach, in which he stated:

„Zum Schluss möchte ich noch einen Beitrag auf LinkedIn von unserem Mitglied Michael Bailey hervorheben. Er hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, dass wir Übersetzer:innen & Dolmetscher:innen das Narrativ ändern müssen. In Anlehnung an meinen letzten Leitartikel (der auch in europäischen universitären Kreisen positive Reaktionen hervorgerufen hat) setzt sich Michael Bailey dafür ein, dass wir als Berufsstand nicht den Marketingsprech der Techkonzerne übernehmen, sondern unsere Rolle im Umgang mit LLMs klarer definieren. Wir sollten XITL etablieren – Expert in the Lead. Genau das ist es. Mein Vorschlag aus dem letzten Leitartikel war SPIC, Specialist in Control. XitL oder XITL erscheint mir aber noch einmal punktgenauer, trifft den Nagel nochmals besser auf den Kopf! Danke, Michael, für diesen tollen Beitrag. Ich werde mich ab jetzt ganz in den XitL-Dienst stellen!“

Thomas Musyl, Universitas Fachmagazin 4/26

The article appears on pp. 37-38 in edition 4/26 of the Universitas Fachmagazin.

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