von Kopp Nataša

Natasa von Kopp was born in Baden-Baden and grew up in a bilingual Czech-German family in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Japan.

In 2001, she earned a Master’s degree in East Asian Art History and Japanese Studies from Heidelberg University. In 2006, she completed her studies in documentary filmmaking at the Film Academie Baden-Württemberg.

Since 2009, she has lived in Berlin with her family and two children, working as a freelance filmmaker, photographer and translator. Since 2011, she has translated several works by Dora Kaprálová, including Zimní knihu o lásce [A Winter Book about Love] (supported by a Perewest scholarship), the children’s book Pan Nikdo a bílá tma [Mr Nobody and the White Darkness], and Mariborská hypnóza [Maribor Hypnosis] (with which she participated in a Berlin translation workshop).