Stefan Hofmeister

German (native)
English

Japanese (learned at universities in Germany and Japan)

I have nearly nine years professional experience in translating Japanese > German and English > German as translator for leading German and Japanese comic and anime publishing companies on a regular basis (and for some agencies as well) and for video game localization agencies and publishers etc. around the world.

 

1,442 Japanese characters (online-game, Japanese > German), 54,000 words (PSP, English > German), more than 16,000 words (PC-game, English > German), more than 8,000 words (PC-game, English > German), proofreading of more than 6,000 words (PC-game, English > German), proofreading of 2,123 words (English > German), 5706 words (PC-Game, English > German), 11,355 words (XBOX 360, PS3 and PC, English > German), proofreading of 5,028 words (Nintendo Wii, English > German), more than 3,500 Japanese characters (Nintendo Wii, PS, NDS, etc., Japanese > German), 9,160 words (PC-Game, English > German), 5,600 words (PC-Game, English > German), 2,756 words (Nintendo Wii, English > German), 14,414 words (iPhone, English > German), more than 3,000 words (Wii, English > German), 7,070 words (DS, English > German), more than 100,000 words (PC-Game, English > German), 5796 words (PC-Game, English > German), 4372 words (Nintendo DS & Wii, English > German) 7,639 words (PC-Game, English > German), 8,889 words (PC-Game, English > German), 5,282 words (DS, English > German), 2085 words (Nintendo DSi, English > German), proofreading of more than 8,000 words (PS3 and XBOX 360, English > German)

+ translation and proofreading of many smaller and bigger video games (and add-ons, batches etc.) with thousands of words for iPhone, PS2, PS3, NDS, Nintendo Wii, PSP, PC-games.

+ a variety of non-video game projects (tourism, marketing etc.)…

Gash! (volume1-8), Milk Crown (volume1-2), Milk Crown H! (volume1-5), Rose Hip Rose (volume1-4), Rose Hip Zero (volume1-5), Gunsmith Cats Revised Edition (volume1-4), Love Celeb (volume1-7), Best Selection – Mayu Shinjo (volume1-2), +Anima (volume1-10), Manga Trainer (volume 1-7), Sgt. Frog (volume1-14), Der Prinz mit den gläsernen Schwingen (oneshot), Strawberry100% (volume1-15), Crazy for You (volume1-6), Meine Liebe (volume1-4), Sweet Revolution (oneshot), Rockin‘ Heaven (volume1-5), Buso Renkin (volume1-10), Darker than Black (volume1-2), Hot Roomer (volume1-2), Shinobi Life (volume 1-6, ongoing), ZE (volume 1-7, ongoing),  Caramel Kiss (volume 1-2), many online published manga and others

Darker than Black (sequel 1-26), Zombie Loan (sequel 1-13), Piano Forest (film), Code Geass – Lelouch of the Rebellion (sequel 1-50), Eden of the East (sequel 1-11)

Hori-Shi

 

Japanology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany, 1998-2010)
Human Studies (人間学) at Taisho University with a scholarship of the short-term student exchange program of the Japanese Monbusho (Tokyo, Japan, 2000-2001)
Business Administration at the University of Regensburg (Regensburg, Germany, 1996-1998)

 

PC 1: AMD Phenom II X6 1075T, Sapphire HD 6850, ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3, RAM – 4GB DDR3, HDD – 1 TB, CD and DVD Rom & Writer, SyncMaster XL2370, broad band connection to the Internet etc.

PC 2 (kept in reserve): AMD Athlon™64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, RAM – 1982 MB, HDD – 300 GB, CD and DVD Rom & Writer, Multi Card Reader & Floppy, SyncMaster 206 BW, broad band connection to the Internet etc.

Laptop: Intel Core™2 T8100, 2,10 GHZ, RAM – 2GB, HDD 250 GB, Blue Ray Disc, CD and DVD Rom & Writer etc.

Nintendo DSi

MS Vista, MS Office 2007, Open Office, Trados 2009 and several others.

 

Available 7 days per week, from 09 a.m. until 11 p.m. (including several breaks)
Daily output: more than 3,000 words Japanese to German, more than 4,000 words English to German