He holds an MA in Cultural Studies and Translation from Leipzig University, and works as a freelance translator with a focus on history, the arts, and literature. His first book-length translation was the East German novel New Glory by Günter de Bruyn, published by Northwestern University Press in 2009. His translation of Daniel Siemen’s The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel (I.B. Tauris, 2013) was chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year in 2013. He received a 2014 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of The American Stories by Johannes Urzidil.