Ulrich Sonnenberg, born in Hannover in 1955, lives in Frankfurt am Main. He worked for some years in the German bookstore Tysk Bogimport in Copenhagen. In 1987 Ulrich Sonnenberg, together with Klaus Schöffling, founded the publishing house FVA-Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt GmbH; from 1993 until 2003 he was sales-manager in the publishing house Suhr­kamp/Insel.
Since 2004 Ulrich Sonnenberg has worked as editor and literary translator from Danish and Norwegian, among others he translated works by H. C. Andersen, Herman Bang, Hans Herbjørnsrud, Carsten Jensen, Morten Ramsland and Knud Romer.