Text (n.) from Latin textus “style or texture of a work,” etymologically “thing woven,” from past-participle stem of texere “to weave, to join, fit together, braid, interweave, construct, fabricate, build.”

English Editorial Services

  • Over 20 years of editorial experience.
  • Services include a range of editorial and proof-reading options based on your specific needs.
  • Guaranteed delivery of the manuscript by the agreed-upon deadline.
  • Junker, D. (2023). Germany and the USA 1871–2021. Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Böller, F. and Werner, W. (Eds.), (2021). A Hegemonic Transition? Reconfigurations of Global Economic and Security Orders in the Age of Trump. Palgrave.
  • Leypoldt, G. and Berg, M. (Eds.), (2021). Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society. transcript-Verlag.
  • Wendt, S. (2020). The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century. University Press of Florida.
  • Gerhard, U. (2019). “Mega Cities or Slumdog Cities? The Challenges of Doing Comparative Urban Research in Global Urban Society?” In: Geographische Zeitschrift 107, 3, pp. 188–208.
  • Wendt, S. (Ed.), (2018). Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Rutgers.
  • Wendt, S. (Ed.), (2016). Extraordinary Ordinariness: Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800–2015. Campus.
  • Esswein, H. and Kiwitt, T. (2012). “The Stuttgart Region's Landscape Park.” In: Urban Research & Practice 5, no. 3.
  • Endler, T. (2012). How to Be a Superpower. Barbara Budrich.
  • Berg, M. and Wendt, S. (Eds.), (2012). Globalizing Lynching History. Palgrave.
  • Endler, T. (2011). After 9/11. Barbara Budrich.
  • Ludwigsburg University of Education
  • Landkreis Esslingen
  • SPS MARKETING GmbH
  • Publikmacher Janus Oertwig
  • dotty edition publishers

Translation Services - German to English

  • Native Speaker of English.
  • Over 20 years' experience in a wide variety of language contexts.
  • All texts are personally translated.
  • Guaranteed delivery of the manuscript by the agreed-upon deadline.
  • Department for Culture, City of Stuttgart
  • Ludwigsburg University of Education
  • Karl Wörwag Lack- und Farbenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
  • Film Commission Region Stuttgart
  • Heidelberg Center for American Studies
  • Inductoheat Europe GmbH
  • Verband Region Stuttgart
  • Klett-Cotta Publishers
  • Eye of Science
  • Landkreis Esslingen
  • Media and Film Society Baden-Württemberg mbH
  • SPS MARKETING GmbH
  • dotty edition publishers
  • Niama Film
  • Delta-R GmbH
  • Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg
  • QUICKBORNER TEAM
  • KECK Kunstverein e.V.
  • Schwenk Film
  • Publikmacher Janus Oertwig

Publications

  • Sass, S. (2021). Text Production 2: The Writing Process. AKAD University Press.
  • Hermenau, A. and Sass, S. (2021). Text Production 1: Text Patterns. AKAD University Press.
  • Hermenau, A. and Sass, S. (2021). Text Comprehension: Goals and Techniques of Active Reading. AKAD University Press.
  • Hermenau, A. and Sass, S. (2021). Language and Text: Introduction to Text Comprehension and Text Production. AKAD University Press.
  • Sass, S. (2014). Swaying the Nation: Campaign Narratives in the 2008 Presidential Election. GO Publishers.
  • Sass, S. (2014). “No Country for Old Visions.” In: Grabowski, M., Kozák, K., and Tóth, G. (Eds.) The United States as a Divided Nation. Peter Lang.
  • Sass, S. (Ed.). (2012). The World Is Flat - Excerpts. Diesterweg.
  • Sass, S. (2010). “Blue.” In: F. Höllerer and J.B. Joly (Eds.), Lexikon der Sperrigen Wörter. Merz&Solitude.
  • Sass, S. (1998). More Than These Few Days. Edition Solitude.
  • Sass, S. (1997 - 2002). Poetry and prose in Manuskripte, Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, Trans Atlantic, Stuttgarter Nachrichten.

Academic and Literary Writing Grants

  • Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Doctoral Degree Scholarship
  • Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
  • Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
  • Akademie Schloss Solitude

Presentations

  • “The U.S. Presidential Election 2020,” Volkshochschule & Kreisparkasse, Esslingen, October 7, 2020.
  • „Die politische Landschaft in den USA nach der Wahl“, Volkshochschule & Kreisparkasse, Esslingen, November 14, 2018.
  • Podiumsdiskussion: „Trump in Trouble? Die Halbzeitwahlen: U.S. Kongress als Zwischenzeugnis für Präsident Donald Trump“, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, October 30, 2018.
  • „Fake News – Wie man sie erkennt und interpretiert“, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum und Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Stuttgart, October 25, 2018.
  • „Die politische Entwicklung der USA in den letzten 40 Jahren“, Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Schorndorf, October 11, 2017.
  • Podiumsgespräch: „Vor-Wahlsonntag: Fakten, Forschung, Fakes“, Haus der Geschichte, Stuttgart, Septermber 17, 2017.
  • Inauguration Day: 2017, German American Institute, Tübingen, January 20, 2017.
  • Election Night: 2016, James-F.-Byrnes-Institut e.V. Stuttgart, November 8, 2016.
  • “Presidential Campaigns – Best Of”: Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, October 25, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • „Wer hat Angst von Donald Trump?“, Rotary Club, July 25, 2016, Kirchheim unter Teck.
  • Swaying the Nation: Campaign Narratives in the 2008 Presidential Election – book launch, July 19, 2016, Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
  • “Words Apart: The Campaign Narratives in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election”:
    • June 9, 2016, Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus GmbH – Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations, München.
    • June 7, 2016, Atlantische Akademie Rhineland-Palatinate & the Technical University Kaiserslautern.
    • April 26, 2016, Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg.
    • April 6, 2016, Deutsch-Amerikanische Zentrum/James-F.-Byrnes-Institut e.V. Stuttgart.
  • The United States as a Divided Nation: Past and Present – book launch, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, January 20, 2016.
  • “No Country for Old Visions” paper, 6th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, August 3-6, 2013, Szczecin, Poland.
  • “Countdown for Obama” panel discussion, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, October 30, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • “Words Apart: The Campaign Narratives of Barack Obama and John McCain in the 2008 Presidential Election,” Presentation, 2012, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
  • “GAINING THE NATION: Campaign Narratives and Their Use in the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections.” Conference, 2012, Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen.
  • “The Obama Presidency: Will there be a second term?” Round table, 2011, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

About

  • Born in North Dakota, USA.
  • Bachelor's degree in literature and film from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
  • Attended study abroad semester at the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian/Donostia, Spain.
  • English instructor in San Sebastian/Donostia, Spain.
  • Received a Masters and Doctoral degrees in American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, writing on the campaign narratives of the 2008 US presidential election.
  • Director of the Writing Workshop at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Assistant Director of the American Junior Year study abroad program, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Instructor at AKAD University, and an editor, translator, and writer, Stuttgart, Germany.