1959, Slovenia
He graduated in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Postgraduate studies at the University of Hamburg. At present he teaches Slovenian at the University of Regensburg in Germany. He published a number of articles, essays in numerous journals as well as two books. He translated into Slovenian and published more than twenty books by German authors and philosophers and translated and edited a selection of short stories by the German authors.
He studied Slovenian Language and Literature and Comparative History of Literature with Literary Theory at the Philosophy Faculty of Ljubljana University in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1984 lectured at the University of Hamburg for the study stream German as foreign language. Tutor for Slovenian at the University of Regensburg, from 1986 to 1996 also at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Numerous essays, columns and various contributions about German literature in Slovenian magazines and newspapers as well as on the radio. In 1996 he published the book Nemška književnost danes (Present day German Literature). Translates mainly contemporary German literature and philosophy, including Elfriede Jelinek Ljubimki, Naslada (Women Lovers, 1996, 2004 (2. Edition) Lust 2005), Urs Widmer Modri sifon (The Blue Siphon, 1998), Herta Müller Živalsko srce (Heart Animal, 2002), Thomas Brussig Junaki kot mi (Heroes like Us, 1999), Peter Stamm Agnes (Agnes 2002), Judith Hermann Poletna hiša, pozneje (Summerhouse, Later, 2004), Sven Regener Gospod Lehmann (Mr Lehmann, 2004), Feridun Zaimoglu Leyla, Dvanajst gramov sreče (Leyla, 2007, Twelve grams of happiness, 2009), Uwe Timm Rdeče (Red, 2007), Robert Walser Ropar (Robber-novel 2009). Philosophical works include Walter Benjamin Enosmerna ulica (One-way Street, 2002), Peter Sloterdijk Evrotaoizem, Kritika ciničnega uma (Euro-Taoism, 2000, Critique of Cynical Reason, 2003). Selection of German short prose in the anthology To ni vsa moja zgodba (This is not my full story, 1999) with 13 German, Austrian and Swiss authors, including Adolf Muschg, Peter Bichsel, Thomas Hürlimann, Bodo Kirchhoff, Botho Strauß, Jurek Becker, Helmut Krausser, Josef Haslinger, Robert Menasse, Radek Knapp, Judith Hermann ...