Sarah Mitev

Sarah heads the agency’s French language team and serves as project lead for clients’ marketing projects. She does this from her home office on the coast of Brittany where, after 12 years based in Leinhäuser Language Service’s Unterhaching office, she returned in 2019 so she could raise her two children in her beloved home region where she grew up.

As head of the French team, Sarah leads the agency’s in-house French language experts, serves as point person for French translators in the agency’s global network, oversees quality control for French language work, consults with key clients, manages their myriad projects, and still finds time for translation work.

Sarah earned her master’s degree in audiovisual translation at the Institut de Traducteurs, d’Interprètes et de Relations Internationales (ITIRI) of Strasbourg, and over the past two years, has been going back to her roots as she’s increased her work with the audiovisual team, focusing on subtitling.

French charm, Breton quick wit, and an English even keel.

Sarah grew up in a bilingual home with a French father and English mother. As soon as she started learning German in school at age ten, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in languages as a teacher or translator. Sarah spent a year in Munich as an Erasmus student, then after completing her studies in France, returned to Munich to join Leinhäuser.

Sarah is providing her children with the same multilingual and multicultural advantages that have benefited her. At home, the family is quadrilingual with French, English, Bulgarian, and German.

When not advising clients, managing projects, and translating, you’ll find Sarah enjoying an early-morning fitness session on the beach or in the local dance studio, which she describes as her “happy place.” Sarah’s motto is, “Why walk if you can dance?”