Betroffenenbewegung

07:40 Oct 19, 2011
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology / Recovery Movement
German term or phrase: Betroffenenbewegung
Die Recovery-Bewegung wurde von Betroffenen gegründet.
Irgendwie kann ich 'affected' und 'movement' nicht elegant zusammenführen. Hat jemand eine elegante Lösung? Vielen Dank.
Melanie Wittwer
New Zealand
Local time: 16:51


Summary of answers provided
3 +4rephrase
Armorel Young
4concerned parties
Lioba Multer
3co-dependents
KAJohnson


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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
rephrase


Explanation:
I'm not sure whether you want a translation of "Betroffenenbewegung" or of the sentence you posted, which doesn't actually contain the term. I would translate the sentence as "The recovery movement [or Recovery Movement if it's a proper name] was set up by people who had themselves been affected by [or had themselves had experience of] xxx - where x is presumably something like alcoholism.

For Betroffenenbewegung a term like "self-help group" may be appropriate, but without more context it is hard to tell whether that would fit. There is also the concept of a "user-led" organisation, but again we would need more information to know whether that would be right here.

Armorel Young
Local time: 05:51
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Native speaker of: English
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  franglish
1 hr

agree  Susan Welsh
1 hr

agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X): that's a good solution and much better than the original :)
3 hrs

agree  Horst Huber (X): Die XX wurde als Selbsthilfeorganisation gegründet? Der Kontext würde uns sagen, was "recovery" hier besagt.
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co-dependents


Explanation:
I would leave out "-Bewegung' in the English translation and have the sentence read "The recovery program was begun by victims/co-dependents (whichever of the latter seems most appropriate to you in context).

KAJohnson
United States
Local time: 21:51
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concerned parties


Explanation:
The recovery movement was founded by concerned parties.

Lioba Multer
United States
Local time: 21:51
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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