Team
Trend Translations is a boutique translation team specialised in fashion and lifestyle texts from German to English. Paula Hedley and Galina Green are both native English speakers based in Cologne and Berlin. With over ten years of experience in translation, proofreading, copywriting and transcreation, they combine their background in fashion, textiles and marketing with a passion for language – on an eternal quest to deliver compelling copy and the perfect turn of phrase.
Paula Hedley
Paula Hedley has always had a passion for languages so a career in translation was simply the next logical step. After winning a German phrase book on a school trip to the River Mosel at the age of 12 she started teaching herself the basics. She went on to study Modern Languages and Area Studies at Northumbria University. The second year of her degree was spent studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, which only reaffirmed her decision to pursue a life in Germany.
After graduating in 2004, Paula worked in Mallorca and travelled around Europe with a backpack before permanently relocating to Cologne to work for a PR agency for fashion and advertising photography.
She soon became a self-employed translator and with a focus on the fashion, culture and lifestyle sectors has accumulated a number of noteworthy clients over the years including: J'N'C Magazin, GoSee, BOOKLET Magazine, Style and the family tunes Magazin, Bread & Butter, Bright Magazine, Serviceplan, TWELVE, Neonyt, Panorama Cosmos, Roland Hoffmann PR, Bikini Berlin, Press Factory, Amateur Magazin, hidden cologne, Tomorrow, Raffaello Rossi, Gmund Paper, KERN.Consulting, Positive Propaganda, J'N'C News, TM MEN, Green Knowledge and many more.
After living in Cologne for 18 years, Paula recently moved to the Allgäu region of Germany, not far from the border to Austria. She comes from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is also able to offer translations from Geordie to English upon request! She dreams of one day being able to translate from a house with sea views, as long as it has a fast Wi-Fi connection!
Galina Green
Galina Green grew up in London, with a German mother, learning Cockney and German simultaneously. She studied German at Liverpool University, graduating with an Honours degree before making the move to Berlin in 1993. She went on to study design at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, graduating with a first-class degree in 2000.
Galina started out translating for up-and-coming magazines like Style and the Family Tunes to supplement her income, but the work kept on coming and soon she had a large client base in the world of print media and film. Her background in design and textiles proved an ideal combination when it came to translating fashion and lifestyle texts.
She now translates and edits for a whole raft of wonderful clients in the fields of architecture, fashion, film and culture, including Max Dudler, N3 Vision, Aedes, J'N'C Magazine, Jack Wolfskin, Hegenbarth Collection Berlin, Heyday Magazine, Textilwirtschaft, Prag PR, Borck Immobilien, Studio-O, Malaika Raiss, Lala Berlin and Prounen Films.
Galina has two daughters and a Sheltie called Holly and now lives 100 kilometres north of Berlin in the Uckermark region, where she is lovingly restoring an old fisherman’s cottage by a lake.
