diff --git a/docker/appimage/build-appimage.sh b/docker/appimage/build-appimage.sh
index e02ded9d..62ca7ebd 100644
--- a/docker/appimage/build-appimage.sh
+++ b/docker/appimage/build-appimage.sh
@@ -1,72 +1,82 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Build an AppImage of Kleopatra
 # Copyright (C) 2021 g10 Code GmbH
 #
 # Software engineering by Ingo Klöcker <dev@ingo-kloecker.de>
 #
 # This file is part of GnuPG.
 #
 # GnuPG is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 # (at your option) any later version.
 #
 # GnuPG is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
 
 set -e
 
 source /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/enable
 
 cd /src/packages
 ./download.sh
 
 cd /src
 ./configure --enable-appimage --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-manuals
 
 cd /src
 make
 
 echo 'rootdir = $APPDIR/usr' >/build/AppDir/usr/bin/gpgconf.ctl
 
 export PATH=/opt/linuxdeploy/usr/bin:$PATH
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/build/install/lib
 
 # tell the linuxdeploy qt-plugin where to find qmake
 export QMAKE=/build/install/bin/qmake
 
 # create plugin directories expected by linuxdeploy qt-plugin
 # workaround for
 # [qt/stdout] Deploy[qt/stderr] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
 # [qt/stderr]   what():  boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct: No such file or directory: "/build/AppDir/usr/plugins/printsupport"
 # ERROR: Failed to run plugin: qt (exit code: 6)
 mkdir -p /build/install/plugins/{printsupport,sqldrivers}
 
 # copy KDE plugins
 for d in iconengines kf5 pim; do
     mkdir -p /build/AppDir/usr/plugins/${d}/
     rsync -av --delete --omit-dir-times /build/install/lib64/plugins/${d}/ /build/AppDir/usr/plugins/${d}/
 done
 
 cd /build
 # remove existing AppRun and wrapped AppRun, that may be left over from a previous run of
 # linuxdeploy, to ensure that our custom AppRun is deployed
 rm -f /build/AppDir/AppRun /build/AppDir/AppRun.wrapped
-# remove existing Qt translations; this prevents linuxdeploy from creating symlinks from
-# /build/AppDir/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/kfoo5_qt.qm to /build/AppDir/usr/translations/kfoo5_qt.qm
-# (note the missing language id in the symlinks) which obviously makes no sense
-rm -rf /build/AppDir/usr/translations
+# copy the translations of qtscript, qtmultimedia and qtxmlpatterns; we do not use those
+# Qt modules, but Kleopatra (via ki18n) loads the qt_ meta catalog which depends on
+# the catalogs of qtbase and the above three modules for most languages; loading the
+# Qt translations fails if any of those catalogs are missing; linuxdeploy automatically
+# includes the catalogs of the modules we use, but as we do not use the other three
+# we have to copy them ourselves
+# as a side effect linuxdeploy will create bogus symlinks from
+# /build/AppDir/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/kfoo5_qt.qm to
+# /build/AppDir/usr/translations/kfoo5_qt.qm
+# (note the missing language id in the symlinks) which obviously makes no sense;
+# luckily, this does not seem to cause problems
+rsync -av /build/install/translations/qtscript_* /build/AppDir/usr/translations/
+rsync -av /build/install/translations/qtmultimedia_* /build/AppDir/usr/translations/
+rsync -av /build/install/translations/qtxmlpatterns_*.qm /build/AppDir/usr/translations/
 linuxdeploy --appdir /build/AppDir \
             --desktop-file /build/AppDir/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kleopatra.desktop \
             --icon-file /build/AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kleopatra.png \
             --custom-apprun /src/src/appimage/AppRun \
             --plugin qt \
             --output appimage \
     2>&1 | tee /build/logs/linuxdeploy-kleopatra.log