Während meiner letzten Tätigkeit als Assistentin des Generalintendanten des Humboldt Forums verstarben zwei enge Familienmitglieder kurz hintereinander. Der dadurch entstandene intensive Kontakt mit der Palliativversorgung rief bei mir den Wunsch nach einem beruflichen Richtungswechsel hervor.

Full support to the Artistic Director at Komische Oper. This includes in detail:- Being in charge of his office concerning administrative and artistic tasks- Overseeing his diary - world wide travel booking - point of contact between his agents, promoters as well as the staff of the opera house- organisation of small events, as well as looking after guests- handling of confidential tasks and information

To negotiate and issue contracts for creative teams for The Royal Opera productions as well as hires and co-production contracts. I liaise closely with the technical and marketing department to make sure that information are distributed in a timely manner. On top of that I make arrangements for Certificate of Sponsorship for all non UK creative teams and singers and handle all immigration related problems.

As the Programme Co-ordinator and Assistant Music Programmer at Greenbelt, a 15,000 capacity multi arts festival in Cheltenham, I oversaw the following: liaise with agents/managers (negotiate fees for music stages), once Artists have been booked I ensured that the relevant contracts were issued, requirements fulfilled, liaised with artist/managers re: technical requirements, distributed information to the various departments, helped oversee the programme budget. On site I was in charge of running the programming office, which is the central information hub for anything regarding programming, leading a team of five. Apart from that I was responsible for running any other year round Greenbelt events [hiring venues, oversee budget, organising all travel and logistics].

As an international booking agent (specialising in world and alternative music) I was producing concerts worldwide, which involved developing strategies together with the clients management/PR team for the individual markets. In detailed this involved liaising with promoters for separate concerts or entires tours, negotiating fees, creating tour budgets, organising the tour production and arranging for visas/work permits and FEU applications. Attending regular music conferences abroad to network and presenting artists to promoters from different countries.

(f-cat used to be transatlantico) As an international booking agent (specialising in world music and jazz) I was producing concerts worldwide, which involved developing strategies together with the clients management/PR team for the individual markets. In detailed this involved liaising with promoters for separate concerts or entires tours, negotiating fees, creating tour budgets, organising the tour production and making sure that visas and work permits where arranged. I also acted as tour manager for some of our productions and was in charge of one assistant as well as overseeing the training of a full time trainee.

Head artist liaison for main stage area. Coordination of back stage area, crew schedule, time schedules for the day, crisis management organization. Overall capacity: 30,000.

3 year full time internship as events manager: working on concert production, accounting, marketing, health & safety, tour management and preparing participation in international music conferences. transatlantico became f-cat productions in 2006.