Professional background
- Graduated from Leipzig University as interpreter/translator for English and French
- Postgraduate study in congress interpretation
- Worked as interpreter and translator with an international organization in Helsinki, Finland, for four years
- Translator and interpreter with a translation/interpretation agency in Berlin for about ten years
- Sworn translator/interpreter for the courts and notaries public
- Successful free-lance translator/interpreter since 1994
- International assignments in many European countries and in Japan, New Zealand, Tanzania, Thailand, Singapore, South Africa and the United States
- Member of two prominent German associations of conference interpreters and interpreters and translators: VKD and BDÜ