Dr. Dr. Michael Rössner

Our Team

LLC Translation Team

The LLC translating team: a worldwide network of specialized translators and proof-readers.

Founder of our firm

Dr. Dr. Michael Rössner is Austrian. He obtained his LL.D. from Vienna University in 1978 and his Ph.D. in 1979. Since 1983 he is a sworn interpreter and translator for the Vienna Courts, for the languages French, Italian and Spanish.

DDr. Rössner is also a full professor at Munich University (he retired in 20199 and has taught at the Universities of Salzburg, Buenos Aires and Tucumán. He is also an examiner at Vienna University School of Interpreters. Besides his work in the legal field, he is the translator/editor into German of the Complete Works of Luigi Pirandello. In 2017, he was awarded the Italian Government's National Prize of Literary Translation.

Our partners

Dr. Elisabeth-Natascha Rössner obtained her LL.D. from Vienna University in 1982. Since 1983, she has worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency, where she was involved in drawing up an internal Data Protection Act. In 1990 she began working for the Vienna law firm Weiss-Tessbach and, in 1997, took over the organization of our PR-Department.

Mag. Marie Theres Pitner is Austrian and has an M.A. degree from Vienna University. After teaching languages she went on to work for the Austrian Academy of Sciences and as a free-lance translator for science texts. She joined LLC in 1998 and now organizes our Quality Control procedure.

Two examples from the network of our translators

Michael Walker, BA., JD., holds US and British citizenship and, after having lived 20 years in the UK, moved to the Republic of Ireland (EU) in 2017. Mr. Walker studied German language and literature at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (BA, 1991) and continued with law school at that same institution (JD, 1994). Upon graduation, he passed the Virginia bar exam and was licensed as an attorney-at-law that same year.&xnbsp; From 1994 to 2006 he worked in a major international law firm in the US and Europe, where he frequently was called upon to prepare legal translations. It was during this period that he also began a side-line as a freelance legal translator in his free time. In 2006, Mr Walker left the practice of law and became a full-time legal translator. He was awarded the ITI's annual John Hayes Prize in 2005 for that year's best translation exam in any language combination. He has been working with LLC Rössner on an ongoing basis since 2006.

Dott. Mag. Paolo Sturm is Italian. He studied in Vienna and Trieste and has worked successfully as a translator and interpreter for eight years. He joined the LLC team in 1993 and is now responsible not only for Italian translations but also for proof-reading Italian and French translations.