Profile
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Education:
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| Translation studies at Humboldt
University Berlin |
| 2001
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“Dipl.-Übersetzerin”
(Graduate Translator) in Spanish and French, specialist
area: law |
| 1999 |
Tour guide exam, Reiseleiterakademie
at Berlin-Tempelhof airport |
| 1998 |
British Telecom training in satellites
& television in London |
| 1992 |
Foreign language correspondent for English,
French and Spanish at NFS school, Nuremberg |
Professional Experience:
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| Since 1995 |
Freelance translator and interpreter;
specializing in: tourism, travel & transports, arts
& culture, architecture, real estate, investment,
law |
| Since 1996 |
Member of GUBING Group, translator
specializing in real estate business and building industry |
| 2003-2006 |
Management assistant at Grund-Konzepte.
Gesellschaft für Immobilienmanagement mbH, a Berlin-based
real estate company |
| 2002-2003 |
Office support for BT Broadcast Services
in Germany |
| 2001-2002 |
Management assistant at Union Investment,
Frankfurt/Main |
| 1998-1999 |
Marketing assistant, coordinator of the
Berlin office of British Telecom Broadcast Services |
| 1996-1998 |
Spanish and English interpreter for the
Embassy of the Republic of Cuba and various other customers
from Nicaragua, Cuba, Argentina and the US |
| 1995-1997 |
Foreign language secretary – lawyers’
office Goebels, Pokorny, Kähler in Berlin |
| 1995 |
Spanish translator at UN climate conference
in Berlin |
| 1993–1994 |
Foreign language correspondent in Nuremberg |
| 1990-1992 |
Interpreter at trade fairs in Nuremberg |
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Studies abroad: USA,
France, Spain, Venezuela, Cuba
Publications:
“Africanisms
in Cuba’s modern spoken language – influences
of popular music” (Peter
Lang: Frankfurt, 2002)
“Le Fragnol,
franco-hispanic language contact in Argentina”
(in: Romanische Sprachen in Amerika, Ed. Kerstin Störl/Johannes
Klare, Peter Lang: Frankfurt, 2002)
“Racial
prejudices in Cuba and how they are being expressed in language”
(in: Kerstin Störl [Ed.]:
Con optimismo e imaginación. La realidad cubana de
hoy y su reflejo lingüístico. Frankfurt, Berlin,
Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang [forthcoming])
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