Background
Doris Krisch was born in Ljubljana to Gottschee German parents. She grew up speaking both German and Slovene.
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Doris Krisch was born in Ljubljana to Gottschee German parents. She grew up speaking both German and Slovene.
She then studied education for a year in Novo Mesto.
She received her bachelor"s degree in German and English in 1959 at the University of Ljubljana"s Faculty of Arts. She started working as an assistant instructor of German at the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Ljubljana"s Faculty of Arts in 1960. She started working independently as a translator into and from Slovene and German in 1982.
From 1988 to 1991 she was the chair of the Union of Scientific and Technical Translators of Yugoslavia.
She was also a major translator of the five-volume Slovene translation of Johann Weikhard von Valvasor"s The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.
Doris Debenjak was a member of the Society of Native Gottschee Settlers (Slovene: Društvo Kočevarjev staroselcev, German: Gottscheer Altsiedler Verein), which was founded in 1992 in Kočevske Poljane. She was elected a member of the society"s governing board on 8 December 2002.