Translation Services in Cologne

We have an office in Cologne, at Efeuplatz 8, 51105 Köln. The translations themselves are prepared by native-speaking linguists who are matched to the subject and the language pair and work remotely, so the process is the same wherever you are. Send a request, and our multilingual translation agency replies with a quote.

Media houses, agencies, and game studios need marketing translation adapted to the target market, while insurance and finance texts such as policy wordings call for linguists who know that vocabulary. Cologne also hosts the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and, in Porz, the European Astronaut Centre and the German Aerospace Center, which generate regulatory and technical documents. Our translation services match each of these text types to a specialist.

Residents deal with the Standesamt Köln and the city's foreigners' authority, and students enroll at the Universität zu Köln, the TH Köln, or the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln. Foreign certificates, diplomas, and transcripts for those offices usually need a German translation, and a certified translation with a signed certificate of accuracy is a common format. The receiving office decides what it accepts, so tell us where the file is going.

The Landgericht Köln, the Amtsgericht Köln, and the Oberlandesgericht Köln, along with many notaries, often ask for a translation by a sworn translator, an individual linguist appointed by a German regional court. For documents leaving Germany, the destination decides: USCIS and US state courts look for a certified translation with a signed certificate of accuracy, while an Italian Comune, a Spanish Registro Civil, or a French mairie may want a sworn version. Any apostille is issued by the authority in the document's country of origin, never by the translator.

Koelnmesse in Deutz is a main stage for interpreting, with exhibitors and buyers negotiating at stands during gamescom, Anuga, DMEXCO, and imm cologne. Our interpreting services cover simultaneous, consecutive, and whispered formats, delivered on site or remotely. Courts, consultations at the Universitätsklinikum Köln, and visits by delegations from the US and other EU countries are other typical settings.

Bonn, Leverkusen, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Bergisch Gladbach, and Hürth are served in the same way. Upload a scan or file, receive a quote, and get a signed PDF, with a paper original by post when needed.