Lieven L. Litaer

Lieven Litaer in 2012

Lieven Litaer in Klingon disguise 2011

Lieven L. Litaer (born 1980, Klingon name Quvar valer, which he does not use any more) discovered Star Trek in 1991 and became a Klingonist in 1995. He was born in Belgium, but has been living in Germany most of his life. He holds the KLCP rank of po'wI' (expert). In 2013, Lieven was responsible for the correction of the awfully translated German Klingon Dictionary. Since he had started his YouTube Channel, he is known in the web as the "Klingon Teacher from Germany". In summer 2017, he has published the first Klingon textbook entitled "Klingonisch für Einsteiger" (Klingon for Beginners).

Serving the KLI

1997 joined the Klingon Language Institute and their mailing list
part of his discussion on the list was printed in the Round Table chapter of HolQeD
2001 organized the qep'a' chorghDIch in Brussels, Belgium, the first qep'a' ever outside the USA
2002 became the first Beginners' Grammarian whose native language is not English, serving for 18 months
2016 received Friend of Maltz certificate for the work on his Klingon textbook
2018 was added to the "order of the torchbearer" for his work on Star Trek: Discovery, together with Robyn Stewart and Alan Anderson.

Lectures

Starting in 2009, Litaer has held lectures at several Sci-Fi-Conventions but also at universities and museums, among them:

Phantastika 2017 in Oberhausen and 2018 in Berlin at ComicCon
Goethe Institute Warsaw (2016)
FedCon (2011 + 2019)
Star Trek Vorlesung (2008-2019)
Sci-Fi-Days Grünstadt (2012-2014)
SpaceDays Darmstadt (2018)
University of Saarbrücken (2014)
LuxCon in Luxemburg (2014-2017)
Science-Fiction-Tage in Technik-Museum Speyer (2011-2017).

Translation projects

Books and Literature

2021 Translation of Alice in Wonderland
2020 Translation of Die Hamletmachine
2019 Translation of Sleep Tight Little Wolf
2019 Publication of a language guide Kauderwelsch Klingonisch
2018 Translation of The Little Prince
2018 Correction of the erraneous Klingon map of Stellar Cartography
2017 Publication of the tectbook Klingonisch Für Einsteiger
2017 Providing Klingon phrases for the German Star Trek novels of Prometheus
2015 Translation of the German foreword of the Klingon Hamlet
2013 Correction of the German Klingon Dictionary
2006 A short story in the KLI's Worlds of Translation project
2003 Cooperated on the Klingon lines in The Left Hand of Destiny

Other kinds of projects

2021 Translation and speaking the intro of a German children's show Die Sendung mit der Maus
2017 Creation of Klingon subtitles for Star Trek: Discovery
2017 Language coaching for Brasilian Netflix PR videos entitled Klingon Moderno
2017 Translation and speaking the intro of a German children's show Die Sendung mit der Maus
2002 + 2006 Translation for German rock music group Kosmic Horrör
1999 provide Klingon lines for a three-lingual opera juHrop by Frieder Butzmann

Online Projects

This Klingon Language Wiki has been set up and edited mainly by Litaer, intended (but rejected) as a rebirth of the KLI's wiki.
In 2006, he ported the closed Klingon Wikipedia pages into a standalone wiki(1).
2004 he translated parts of the website of the Deutsche Welle, a German radio station

Appearance on Television

During his mission on teaching the Klingon language, Lieven has appeared in some television shows in Germany:

2018 Teaching Klingon at Kaya Yanar's show
2017 Answering a question in the quiz show 5 gegen Jauch
2017 Appearance in the TV show "Miss Wildcard" on German channel SkyHD as a Klingon language teacher for comedian Lena Liebkind, as a preparation to go participate in Miss Klingon at Treklanta Con.
2013 Guest star in TV total with Stefan Raab
2005 To tell the truth
regular appearances when the news report about his qepHom in Saarbrücken