Olaf Kühl

born in Sanderbusch in 1955, earned a degree in Slavic Studies and East European History before founding the Ost-West-Büro (OWB) for Eastern European consultation and translation in Berlin. He earned his doctorate in 1995 and worked as an interpreter and translator for the governing mayor of Berlin, where he has been a Russian teacher since 1996. The translator of numerous authors such as Michnik, Stasiuk, Tokarszuk and Maslowska, he lives in Berlin.