You're braver than me. I'm bilingual, have never been able to write Fiction in German, but I would not touch translation with a bargepole.
The only translator I've ever read who could make words sing is Annemarie Boell, who translated Susan Coopers 'The Dark is Rising' sequence, so it can be done.
The worst is the... person who translated Judy Tarr's 'Hound and Falcon' trilogy and slapped another ending on it because someone appears to have disliked the original one.
Re: German translations
The only translator I've ever read who could make words sing is Annemarie Boell, who translated Susan Coopers 'The Dark is Rising' sequence, so it can be done.
The worst is the... person who translated Judy Tarr's 'Hound and Falcon' trilogy and slapped another ending on it because someone appears to have disliked the original one.