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Born in Trier, lives in Berlin and Warsaw. She studied Russian and Polish at the University of Leipzig. Worked as an interpreter, editor, publisher's reader. From 1970, freelance literary translator in East Berlin. With the Goethe-Institut in Warsaw since 1991. Numerous translations of major literary works from Polish into German. Awarded the Johann-Heinrich-Voss-Preis of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung for Variationen in Briefen ("Variations In Letters") by Kazimierz Brandy. While in Calw as a scholarship holder, Roswitha Matwin-Buschmann worked on: Chana Gorodecka, Tagebuch einer polnischen Jüdin ("Diary Of A Polish Jew"); Reclam Leipzig, and on the memoirs of the Polish Nobel Prize Winner Czeslaw Milosz, Die Straßen von Wilna ("Beginning With My Streets"); Hanser Munich |