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This is quite common for dutch translations, I'm assuming the same would be true for German.

Afaik, the most common reason for this is marketing. Some titles just don't work well when translated directly and a bad title can directly affect sales.

Yes, several times. Usually translated from English to my native language. As soon as I was capable of reading the original, though, I switched. I've read a few tens of thousands English books in the original.

i think it's the norm actually. mostly because sentence structure varies between languages and moving stuff around changes the meaning of the words.

it's a good question. i went through a similar thought recently when i read the sentence "in german, the first sentence of kafka's 'metamorphosis' is a whiplash because they put the verbs last".

Yes? Who hasn't?

Changing (not just translating) the title is sometimes clearly necessary to preserve a joke or reference for people who don't speak the original language (otherwise they'd be reading that version already), but in most cases I find it unnecessary and just makes it hard to talk to others about it or find more info because you know it under completely unrelated names. The Wikipedia article translations about the author will sometimes mention them in a recognisable way, but sometimes not even that helps...

These things are usually not the author's work, but the publisher's. In another country, they do it differently. Why not? Maybe it isn't even related to the languge.

If you speak another language, have you read a book translated from English published under a different title?
Yes, to name a few:

1. The Lord of the Rings in Hungarian (first language) whose cover art was different than many other cover arts. This is also a bad example in that there are so many variations of the cover art in English depending on publisher.
2. The Hobbit in Swedish (first language) whose title different in that the translator made up a word for "hobbit" in Swedish ("hob", pronounced hoob in English). 🤮
3. Koto by Yasunari Kawabata in Swedish whose cover art is different than the one publication that I have of it in Japanese.

I mean, is this also present in European languages (i.e. German, Spanish) where a translated copy of literature that’s originally published in English is called under a different title irrelevant from the source material alongside different cover art?
Yes, see previous answer.

[...] why are translated versions of books sometimes published under a completely different title [...]
My guess is that in a case like The Hobbit versus Hoben (Swedish), the translator and the publisher wanted to make the title less foreign sounding and easier to pronounce. As for your own examples, I have been asking myself the same question on multiple occasions. Sometimes the translated title is either ridiculous or it straight out ruins the immersion. Really werid... The only case in which I don't think it's weird is if there are cultural aspects to it that otherwise make the title conceptually hard to grasp for the target population.

why do they create their own front covers in the translated copy?
Because artists love to artist. 🙃

I regularly read books in English and then in their French translation, out of curiosity. It happens less often the other way around (because there is, sadly for the US, a lot less French authors being translated into English) but I'll do it on occasions. I don't focus much on the cover, to be honest.

Why can the title be so different once translated (not all the time)? For the same reasons it a movie title can be so different too, I suppose: market studies and cultural context. The same with the cover design: what sells in the USA probably would not sell that well in a few European countries.