1. Professional Experience

2011   -   present           Lecturer and Trainer at Deutsche Welle Akademie and Tide-Akademie Hamburg.

19993   -     present                Freelance documentary filmmaker and producer for German and

                                                Spanish public television networks.   (SWR, WDR, ZDF, TVC)

                                               and for the Franco-German cultural TV channel Arte. Based in

                                              Barcelona, San Francisco and since August 2010 Hamburg, Germany.

2008 – 2009              Lecturer in Media Production at the University of Western Sydney. Responsible for producing the student-made TV-Magazine Angle (broadcast on the community channel TVS -Television Sydney).

1989 – 1992            Staff correspondent for Spain and Portugal for the German Newsmagazine DER SPIEGEL, based in Madrid, Spain.

1982-89                 Staff Correspondent for South America for DER SPIEGEL, based in Brazil.

1979 – 82              Staff writer / editor at DER SPIEGEL head office in Hamburg, Germany (Latin America Desk).

1975 – 79               Freelance reporter in Spain and Central America for Swiss, Dutch and German publications.

2. Education             Licence ès Lettres, Contemporary History, University of Geneva,

                                     Switzerland, 1975

3. Languages            English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan (all fluent).

4. Publications            “25 mal Brasilien”, Piper Varlag, München, 1991 (a cultural, social and political portrait of Brazil)

5. Miscellaneous:    1997: Evaluation of Media-Projects in St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Jamaica and Surinam as independent expert for UNESCO.

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