Professional
Experience:
Since 2020 Freelance
translator & owner at TEXTKONFEKT
Translation,
Interpreting, Editing (EN – GER)
· Certified translations (English
into German & vice versa)
· Marketing
translations (English into German)
· Literary translation &
editing (English into German, German)
· Proofreading,
also for quality assurance purposes (Translations into German, German texts)
· Machine
translation post editing (English into German)
Text types:
websites,
newsletters, user guides, corporate communication, presentations, marketing, contracts,
privacy policies, handbooks, transcripts, among others
Area(s) of
expertise:
economics,
legal, fashion, cosmetics, literature, household appliances, interior design,
marketing
2019 – 2020 Branch & project manager
KERN AG, Sprachendienste
2016 – 2020 Freelance
translator & editor (part-time)
2017 Project
manager assistant
Atlantic Language
Services in Plymouth, UK
Education
& qualifications:
2016 – 2019 State-certified
& sworn translator & interpreter (English)
Euroakademie
Bamberg (full time)
Focus on
translation of economic sources
Additional
courses in French, & Spanish
2017 – 2019 BA
Specialized Translation at University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (part-time)
Focus
on translation of technical sources
Additional
courses in interpreting, & Spanish
2015 Semester abroad at
Malmö University (malmö högskola)
2013 –2016 BA
Journalism Studies at Catholic University Eichstätt
Training in
effective investigation, taking significant pictures, writing appropriate
reports & reportages
Training in
academic working in communication studies, political science & philosophy
Bachelor Thesis: “The Concept of Narration: A
Comparative Analysis of Natascha Kampusch’ Autobiography And Its Film Adaption
By Sherry Hormann”
Volunteering
Since 2021 Organiser
of the mentoring programme of the VFLL Bavaria
Since 2020 Managing
editor at BayernInfo magazine
Magazine
of the professional translators’ association BDÜ in Bavaria
Since 2009 Private
Tuition (German, English, French, Math)
Awards & Memberships:
2021 Full
membership at VFLL
2019 Full
membership at BDÜ (2017-19 student membership)
2018 Oskar-Karl-Forster-Scholarship
Languages:
German Native
speaker
English Advanced
level oral & written - Level C2
French / Spanish Basic
level oral & written - Level B2
GSL / Swedish Very
basic level oral & written - Level A1
Computing Skills:
Microsoft Office /
Adobe InDesign / Lightwork / Social Media / Wordpress / ABBYY FineReader / SDL
Trados Studio 2021 / Memsource / MemoQ / Projetex / Sage WAWI / Semco