I have been employed as a freelance journalist concentrating on education,
medicine
and natural sciences
since 1989.
Occasionally, I write reports
of my journeys.
My road to journalism started with a biology course at the University of Paris
at Orsay, though at the time I suspected nothing about how this would influence
my later vocation. That only became clear to me once I had begun to study
German alongside biology in Marburg. In 1991 an Erasmus scholarship for theatre
studies took me back to Paris, and in 1993 I completed my joint course in
Frankfurt am Main with Dipl. and MA degrees. Theatre, film and TV studies
had by now become my passion, along with urban ecology and philosophy, and
I began to develop and realise my ambition to work as a full time science
journalist.
In the course of my studies I took on a part-time work as a Sub Editor for
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and continued to do so for ten years.
During this time I also experienced the work of dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt, and
the magazine nature in Munich. 1994 provided a very pleasant digression in
the shape of Satie/Cocteau: Misunderstandings of an Understanding, which I
translated from the French for Wolke Verlag, Hofheim/Ts. IT courses brought
me closer to the global village with help on setting up services on-line and
journalism for the Internet.
After a number of years in the editorial office of my colleague Udo Perina,
I have had my own office in the Ökohaus, Frankfurt since the year 2001.
