本文是中国文学在德国的最主要译者之一高立希( Ulrich Kautz) 先生在2014 年4 月由华东师范大学外语学院主办的“镜中之镜: 中国当代文学及其译介研讨会”上的发言稿。在这个发言中，高立希先生基于他翻译中国现当代小说的三十年经验回答了如下问题: 怎样把中国当代文学引入德国? 翻译在这方面起着怎样的作用? 具体而言，他探讨的话题包括: 德国读者为什么要看中国小说? 目前德国能买到哪些作家的德文译本? 德国出版社在选择翻译中文书籍时，有什么限度和偏好? 德国汉学家选择翻译对象的标准是什么? 德国汉学家( 包括高立希本人) 在翻译中国小说时碰到的普遍困难是什么? 高立希本人在翻译当代中国小说时采取了哪些策略?

This article is the speech delivered by Ulrich Kautz at the conference“Mirror in Mirror: Contemporary Chinese novels and their translation”organized by the Foreign Languages School of East China Normal University in April 2014． Based on his own experiences and observations，Kautz discusses how to do a better job in introducing contemporary Chinese literature to Germany and the role that translation can play in the effort． Specifically he tries to answer the following questions: Why would a German reader want to read a Chinese novel? Whose novels’German translations are available in the German market? What factors come into a German publishing house's consideration when it chooses a Chinese novel to translate? What criteria help a German translator to choose a Chinese novel? What are the common difficulties that German sinologists often find themselves in when they translate? What major translation strategies and skills does Kautz often employ?