Competition on Goethe's works

JAKARTA (JP): The German embassy has launched a 1999 competition for translating Goethe's literature works into Indonesian.

The embassy said that all publishers and translators were invited to participate in the competition, which offers a cash prize of DM 5,000 (US$2,866), to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe.

Participants should make their translations of Goethe's novels, plays and his collections of poetry into books and publish the books before Sept. 1, next year.

The works will be displayed at an international book exhibition in Frankfurt the following month.

A panel of judges from Indonesia and Germany will pick the winners.

Participants should send their completed works to Gericke- Schonhagen, Jakarta Goethe Institute, Jl. Matraman Raya 23, East Jakarta, or to Thomas Prinz, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Jl. M.H. Thamrin 1, Central Jakarta. (emf)