Facts about me

I graduated from Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand,
Germany in 2007, before starting an internship at the German
GOLFmagazin and attending college at Hawaii Pacific University.
At college, I got an academic scholarship and a journalism
scholarship from the student newspaper Kalamalama, where I write
articles and improve my journalism skills in English.
I will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and
visual communication after the spring 2011 semester.

During my internship at the German GOLFmagazin, which now has
developed to freelance, I began writing a variety of
stories and translated articles from our partner GolfDigest from
English to German. I have also worked for the Internet media and
published my own articles at their Internet page.
I learned how to design pages with Quark Xpress and
InDesign/InCopy.

At the Hawaii Pacific Student Newspaper Kalamalama I wrote
articles in English for the sports section and became sports section
editor as well as associate editor. I worked with Typeset, InDesign and was involved in production. I improved my English skills as well as my journalism skills. Another important aspect was, that I learned how to place and work on photos with Adobe Photoshop CS3. I took my own photos for the German magazine and published them also online.

Through my experiences, I have become adept in a variety of
software, including PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and
InCopy, Final Cot Pro, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and
Quark Xpress.

My goal is to become a well-rounded journalist and work as a
correspondent for an international newspaper or news channel. I
have enrolled in a photojournalism class and an advanced video
production class to help me improving my skills and flexibility.