Name
Elke Mutschlechner
Office
Board Member
Department
Publicity & Promotion
Elke Mutschlechner was born in Austria,
1979. She graduated with a M.A. in Education Science and
Sign Language Interpreting at the University
of Graz. In 2002 Elke received
her diploma as a Sign Language Interpreter (Austrian Sign Language / German)
and became a member of the Austrian Association, ÖGSDV. After finishing her
thesis in Leiden, the Netherlands,
she worked at the department for Sign Language Interpreting at the Humboldt-University
in Berlin for
two years. Back in Austria,
Elke set up her own business in Interpreting Services based in Vienna, Austria.
She has experience in conference interpreting, academic and higher education,
all kinds of events, on-the-job interpreting and team interpreting. Since 2007,
she teaches Pedagogics at a private school for Deaf and hearing impaired
students in Linz, Austria.
In September 2007 she was elected to the efsli board in Zurich and is responsible for the “Publicity and Promotion” department.