Language Mediator and Translator
Marketing Content Consultant
Matteo Menardi Ménego
“Higher than actuality stands possibility”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, §7
Hospitality Brands | Tourist Info | Destinations | Outdoor | Ski | Mountain Guides | Climbing | Literature | Poetry | Living the Alps: ⤵️
I represent brands and destinations where one speaks German or Italian. Not only perform a translation: I make sure that your product or service glows stronger than the alpine skies on one sunny autumn day.
Send me your inquiry. I will detail my offer in one business day: as simple as that, to no added cost.
Athlete, sport climber and Brand Ambassador with over 22 years of experience in the field, multiple 9a ascents as well as up to 8b Onsight and numerous competitions representing Italy in the youth circuit in addition to more “Coppa Italia” events until 2023. In 2015 I became the youngest Italian climber to have climbed one 9a route.
Sixteen of those twenty-two years under contract with two of the most prestigious Italian sport climbing brands. I speak the language of mountaineers as well as sport-climbers and follow the developments of this growing sport closely.
If you want to have content translated into and from German, English or Italian and get a product that is worth reading, promote your brand above and beyond the Alps, reach new markets and amplify your message, then find me here: ⬇️
Send me a message in German, English or Italian, I will reply in the same language. Usually within a business day.
You will both have to wait for me and in the meantime reflect on Han Kang’s words, which I hereby render in English, translating myself Milena Zemira Ciccimarra’s Italian original:
« How tough is it for us to remain humans, no matter what happens? In the darkest of all obscurities language asks us what we are made of and stresses the need for us to make the many viewpoints of all peoples and creatures that live on this planet earth our own. Language binds each one of us to one another. Literature unavoidably radiates one kind of body warmth, because it builds on language bits. In the very same inevitable manner the creature who reads books and writes literature is an activist fighting against all acts that may eradicate life.»
Dovrete aspettare e, nel frattempo, riflettere sulle parole di Han Kang, tradotte così da Milena Zemira Ciccimarra:
«Quanto è difficile per noi restare umani, qualunque cosa accada? Nella notte più buia il linguaggio ci chiede di cosa siamo fatti, insiste sulla necessità di immaginare i tanti punti di vista delle persone e degli esseri viventi che abitano questo pianeta; il linguaggio ci collega gli uni agli altri. La letteratura, che si fonda sul linguaggio, possiede inevitabilmente una sorta di calore corporeo. E, altrettanto inevitabilmente, leggere e scrivere letteratura vuol dire opporsi ad ogni atto che distrugga la vita.»
Ihr werdet auf mich warten müssen und über die Worte von Han Kang nachdenken. So darf ich die aus dem Italienischen von Milena Zemira Ciccimarra vortragen:
«Wie schwierig ist es denn für uns Menschen, menschlich zu bleiben, egal was passiert? In der dunkelsten Zeit fragt uns die Sprache, woraus wir bestehen. Sie hält den Punkt, dass die vielen Perspektiven der Menschen und Lebewesen auf dieser Erde unseres Vorstellungsvermögens bedürfen; sie verbindet uns alle miteinander. Die von der Sprache gestiftete Literatur hat notwendigerweise eine gewisse körperliche Wärme in sich. Ebenfalls notwendigerweise sind Bücherlesen und Literaturschreiben ein Akt, der sich dem, was das Vernichten vom Leben angeht, querstellt.»
Mountains and rocks cannot talk, at least until proven otherwise. What they do very, very well is this: forcing us all to listen and remember how small we are.
They do not utter words, tell lies, nor dictate definitions.
Mountains do not fear earthquakes, while some twinkling crystal facades very much do so.
La montagna non sa esprimersi perché la roccia non parla, almeno fino a prova contraria. Però fa una cosa molto, molto bene: ci porta ad ascoltare e ricorda a noi stessi quanto siamo piccoli.
Non esprime parole, non racconta bugie, non affibbia definizioni.
La montagna non teme terremoti, al contrario di certe vetrate scintillanti.
Die Berge äußern sich in Worten – soweit bekannt – nicht. Doch können sie etwas sehr, sehr gut: uns das Zuhören erzwingen und uns an unserer Kleinigkeit erinnern.
Sie sagen kein Wort, erzählen keine Lüge, fällen kein Urteil.
Im Gegensatz zu manchen glänzenden Glasfassaden scheuen sich die Berge vor keinen Erdbeben.
Our hotel is situated on a panoramic hill.
You wake up to Tofana di Rozes, admire from the cozy distance of your bed or climb it. Both things you can achieve with ease, here in the pulsing heart of the Dolomites.