Rosemarie Tietze

Rosemarie Tietze (born 1944 in Oberkirch in the Black Forest) studied theatre studies, Slavic studies and German at universities in Cologne, Vienna and Munich, as well as at Munich’s Institute for Languages and Interpreting; she also spent a year in Moscow conducting research. From 1972 onward, she translated Russian literature into German, initially working as an interpreter and later primarily as a literary translator. The authors she translated included Andrei Bitov, Gaito Gazdanov, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy. Her new translation of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” became a bestseller. Tietze taught literary translation and chaired the German Translators’ Fund from 1997 to 2009. Her awards included the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize, the Munich Translation Prize, the Brücke Berlin Prize and the Paul Celan Prize.