Karen Witthuhn
Karen Witthuhn translates novels and theatre plays into German. She is a board member of Drama Panorama, Forum für Übersetzung und Theater, and a member of the International Theatre Institute Germany. She has worked as a theatre director, as well as dramaturg and production manager for international theatre festivals. She has translated a wide range of authors including Alice Feeney, Anita Nair, Steph Cha, George Pelecanos, Ken Bruen, Stephen Hawken, Alan Carter, Mark Knowles, Percival Everett, M.J. Arlidge and Tania Chandler. Her translations (with colleague Sabine Längsfeld) of the bestselling crime writer Simon Beckett regularly make it onto the bestseller lists of Der Spiegel.