Christian Lux

Christian Lux – Translator

Literary translator from English into German with over 15 years experience, working for publishers big and small. Would love to work for you

Overview

I'm a professional translator & editor working in the German book industry in different forms for over 15 years. Lately, I specialized in translation working for big publishers like Kiwi and Eichborn, smaller ones like Marix and specialized publishers like LookBehindYou, as well as my own little publishing house Luxbooks. Overall I worked as an editor & sometimes as publisher on over 70 books and translated around 12 of them. I translated Leonard Cohen, John Ashbery, Caroline O'Donaghue, Wiz Wharton, Nick Cave, Jane Austen, Stevie Smith, Ewan Morrison and many more. I have a secret passion for thrillers, crime novels, scifi and I have a soft spot for romance. Let's get in touch and talk about your book. I would love to become the German voice for your work. You can expect reliable, lively and precise translations from English and French to German.

Services
Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Romance Historical Fiction Horror LGBTQ Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery & Crime Women's Fiction
Languages
English to German

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2016 — Present
Customers include Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Marix, Younity, k22film, anixe, 3sat

Luxbooks

Dec, 2007 — Jul, 2015 (over 7 years)

Insel Verlag

Mar, 2005 — Dec, 2010 (almost 6 years)
Co-Editor of the Insel Almanach (2005-2009)

Portfolio

Book Translation
Die Sache mit Rachel

Caroline O'Donoghue

Kiepenheuer&Witsch

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Leiche im Moor (German Edition)

Louth, Nick

Ludensian Books

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Christian has 3 reviews

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J L.

J L.

Jan, 2026

We did a trial run on 20 pages of translation, and I was very pleased with the result.
Audrey B.

Audrey B.

Dec, 2025

Christian is an excellent German translator who quickly and intuitively understood my writing style. Overall he was responsive to my questions. The job was not a direct translation, but a review and correction of the work of another German translator that I was not happy with. The directive for ...
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Nick L.

Nick L.

Jan, 2024

Diligent, good attention to detail, and a very good translator. A pleasure to work with.

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