Pablo Román Pérez Torres

Pablo Román Pérez y Torres (born September 20, 1964, in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan translator and interpreter for Spanish, Catalan, German, English, Italian as well as a lecturer at the Sprachen & Dolmetscher Institut Munich. In addition to the Uruguayan citizenship, he also holds Spanish and German citizenship.

Life Pablo Román Pérez y Torres was born on September 20, 1964, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Due to the political situation, he left for Spain at the age of eight, where he first lived in Valencia and later moved to Barcelona. He began his academic career as a translator and interpreter in 1987 in Germersheim, Germany, graduating in 1993 with a degree in German and Italian and in 1994 with a degree in English. Besides languages, his interests include handball, field hockey and football, which he has played since childhood. He is also very interested in literature, history, and politics.

However, Pérez Torres also had other assignments at the football level. These include a simultaneous interpreting assignment from Catalan into German, in which he simultaneously interpreted Ferrán Torres (FC Barcelona), who was speaking Valencian (a form of Catalan), into German at a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in April 2022.

Similarly, he interpreted at player and coach presentations or press conferences before important matches for well-known clubs and Latin American national teams (FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, FC Bayern Munich; Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) and football personalities (Toni Kroos, Real Madrid; James Rodríguez, FC Bayern Munich, Carlo Ancelotti, Pep Guardiola, Joachim Löw).

There were not only appearances at press conferences, but also appearances on television. and Karl-Heinz Krämer (Block Foods AG).

Activity as a translator and lectures On the occasion of the 20th FIT World Congress (Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs - World Translators' Federation), held in Berlin in 2014, Pérez Torres contributed to a book called "Man vs. Machine? - Volume I" and there he created an entry in the section "Translating and interpreting in sports, using football as an example, translatological challenges" and gave a lecture on it. In 2009, he gave a lecture on Uruguay in the Swabian town of Bad Urach for political science students who were to represent Uruguay at the "National Model United Nations" (NMUN conference in New York) as part of their bachelor's degree program at the time. During this lecture, he conducted a workshop for young students, introducing them to the country and people of Uruguay. Previously, he had also given another lecture at the University of Tübingen on the topic of the tensions that existed at the time between Uruguay and Argentina due to the paper mills on the Rio Uruguay and the pollution they caused.