Antje Leetz

Antje Leetz, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1947, studied German and Slavic studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. She worked for many years as an editor of modern Russian literature at the Volk und Welt publishing house in Berlin and was an editor at a Moscow publishing house from 1985 to 1988. She subsequently worked freelance as an editor, translator, and author of radio features on Russia. Her radio work includes two features on the Russian writer Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.