Born in Idar-Oberstein in 1971, Andreas Volk has been living in Warsaw for 20 years. He studied Slavic Studies and Comparative Central European Studies in Lublin, Berlin, and Frankfurt (Oder). For more than twenty years, he has been a translator of contemporary Polish literature, including works by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Paweł Demirski, Zyta Rudzka, Marta Górnicka, Ewelina Marciniak, Ishbel Szatrawska, Izabela Tadra, and Jakub Ekier.

He is an editor of the German-Polish-Ukrainian literary journal “radar,” published in Kraków; co-founder of the German-Polish translation yearbook “OderÜbersetzen”; and curator of the German-Polish literary scholarship Josepha.

In 2013, he was awarded the Translation Prize by Zaiks, the Association of Polish Playwrights and Composers. In 2022, he received the Karl Dedecius Prize for his achievements in translation.