Positions

April 2012- present

Owner/Instructor/Translator at Hartmann Language School, in St. Louis, Mo.

October 2010-January 2012

Owner/ Language Instructor

• Running my own private language school: Sprachatelier Hartmann in Berlin
• Teaching clients German with special emphasis on spoken German in everyday situations
• Accounting, management and advertising of my own business

August 2006-Oktober 2010

Language Instructor at Die Neue Schule in Berlin

• Teaching German in groups of up to 14 people
• Teaching conversational German highlighting cultural topics of Germany
• Preparation classes for the Tests in German B1, B2, C1,Test DaF, and “Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom”

April 2005- July 2006

Office Manager at Roma Espresso Systems, Inc. in San Diego

• Administration and organization of the entire wholesale and retail business
• Multilingual customer service (Italian, Spanish, German)
• General accounting duties (Quickbooks)

June 2004- December 2005

Language Instructor at Inlingua International School of Languages in San Diego

• Teaching conversational German to private clients as well as corporate clients at Siemens and Qualcomm
• Translation of documents (English-German, German-English)

July 2002- August 2003

Assistant Librarian at the “Mediothek” (library with Multimedia and computer facilities) of the Goethe-Institut in Munich, Germany

• Administration of the library including loan, research and order of learning material and literature
• Assisting international students with their efforts to learn German and to get familiar with the German culture
• Translation and correction of several brochures (German-Spanish) for the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes

Spanish (near native fluency)

English (near native fluency)

Italian (reading and speaking proficiency)

French (basic knowledge)

Latin (reading knowledge)

German (native)

Education

October 1995- March 2002

M.A. (Magistra Artium) in Spanish and Italian Philology and Education Science at the Georg-August-Universität in Goettingen, Germany

Major subjects: Spanish Linguistics with special emphasis on Hispano - American dialects and Italian Linguistics with emphasis on the dialectal varieties in Italy. Master thesis (Linguistics): “The presentation of the presidential elections (2000) in the United States in the Spanish and Cuban daily press”

September 1999- February 2000

Studies of Spanish Literature of the 20th century at the Universidad de la Merced in Murcia, Spain

• Scholarship issued by the Erasmus / Lingua-Program.