About me

When I was ten years old, I wrote a poem about the life of stone-age cave people. Granted, it wasn't very good, but it shows how deep my love for archaeology runs. After a brief spell of wanting to become a hotel magnate (didn't quite work out) I decided to follow my first love and enrolled in Prehistory and European Ethnology at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Wanting to specialise in "cave people" I moved to Liverpool to undertake a Master in Early Hominid Studies. One year turned into eight, and the Master was followed by a PhD.  Along the way, I worked the typical student jobs: a wine shop, a Mexican restaurant, a hotel bar; but also as a student demonstrator and tutor in archaeology classes, and, together with my partner, I developed and taught modules in archaeology and human evolution for Continuing Education.

Having completed my PhD, I moved back to my native Berlin, and set myself up as a freelance author, translator and proofreader, specialising in archaeology and palaeoanthropology related texts.

"WE DO NOT FOLLOW MAPS TO BURIED TREASURE AND X NEVER, EVER MARKS THE SPOT." (INDIANA JONES)