RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Doerr, Nicole A1 Gardner, Beth Gharrity YR 2022 T1 After the storm: Translating the US Capitol storming in Germany’s right-wing digital media ecosystem JF Translation in Society VO 1 IS 1 SP 83 OP 104 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/tris.21008.doe PB John Benjamins SN 2667-3037, AB Abstract

This study investigates the translational practices of far-right activists in Germany through content analysis of storytelling about the January 6 storming of the US Capitol in influential German alternative news websites. Findings reveal how far-right commentators used their intermediary position to re-narrate, translate, and convert ‘mainstream’ accounts of an exceptionally contentious event into stories supporting far-right- wing and extremist identities. Re-narrations of January 6 events characterized protesters as victim-heroes and contrasted them with the true villains responsible for the chaos and violence, which included a broad spectrum of political actors on the ideological left writ large., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/tris.21008.doe