Food, travel, books

After several years of experience in tourism and publishing, I have been working as a freelance translator and copywriter since 2011. My main topics are tourism, culture and gastronomy, but I do translate and write about a wide range of other things, too.

 

I was born and raised in Southern Germany with a German mother and a British father. There is a habit in my family to marry people from different cultures, so I was used from very early on to switch languages and enjoy the diversity of people from all over the world.

 

I was trained as a foreign language correspondence clerk and international tourism assistant in Heidelberg and worked for a cruise operator and in a travel agency. Later I studied cultural anthropology, history and sociology in Frankfurt (my thesis focussing on Catalan cooking as a way to express cultural identity) and worked for the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Tre Torri Verlag, a publishing house specialised in books about food and wine.

 

Now I live in the Odenwald with my family, which is a very beautiful, hilly region between Frankfurt and Heidelberg. My vision is to bring more international tourists here.

 

In 2019, I fulfilled a life-long dream and published my first novel. In "Gaya - A Second Chance", a group of humans lands on an Earth-like planet with the intention of starting again without repeating the mistakes of the past. Of course, not everything goes as smoothly as planned.

 

I wrote it in German (Gaya - Entdeckung einer neuen Welt) and then translated it into English. It is available in bookstores and online, as print or ebook.