Übersetzung in Leichte Sprache. Zur Problematik der Übersetzung von Gesetzestexten am Beispiel des Infektionsschutzgesetzes

This article illustrates the problems of translation of legislative texts into easy-to-read language on the basis of the German Infection Protection Act. Given the specific problems associated with the explanation of concepts, intra- and intertextual references as well as with syntactic simplifications, the paper works out the solutions that are conceivable for addressees with intellectual disabilities, in the light of the enormous field of tension arising from the linguistic and content-related complexity of the texts on the one hand and a comparatively smaller common ground of text producers and text recipients on the other.