Since April 2012

Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Department of Linguistics
DoBeS-Project: Documentation of Bena Language in
the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

July 2011

Award of PhD title in Anthropology at The Australian
National University, Canberra. Title: Culture Change
and Exchange – Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in
Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

March 2003-
July 2011

PhD student at the Research School of Asian and
Pacific Studies, Department of Anthropology, The
Australian National University, Canberra

May 2001

Magister Artium (MA) in Anthropology at the Freie
Universität Berlin (1,0). Title: Über den weiblichen
Status von Frauen im Hochland von Papua
Neuguinea

1993-2001

MA-studies in Anthropology and Media and
Communications Studies at the Freie Universität
Berlin

1992

High School Degree (Abitur) at Gymnasium
Albertinum, Coburg

1982-1992

Student at Gymnasium Albertinum, Coburg

1978-1982

Grundschule am Heimatring, Coburg

Since December 1997

Freelance at the State Museums Berlin
Working Fields:
Media

• Audiovisual documentation of exhibitions and
  events (performances, discussions, lectures)
• Editing of ethnographic films
• Soundmixing and subtitling
• Speaking of Voice over and audioguides
• DVD-production

Culture and Education

• Concept-development for exhibitions (scientific,
  didactic, educational)
• Guided tours through the exhibitions Oceania,
  North American Indians, Junior Museum, Vodou
  and others
• Conceptional and redactional work on the
  exhibitions Vodou (2010) and Junior Museum
  (2009)

Public Relations

• Organising conferences and events
• Writing press-texts
• Moderating events

May 2007-
April 2012

Agent in culture managment with Kulturprojekte
GmbH and x:ibit GmbH Berlin
Working Fields:

• Development of educational material for the
  exhibition Weltwissen, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin
  2010/11
  
• Communication and info service for the State
  Museums Berlin
  
• Event-documentation

March-April 1997

Practical in the Media Department of the
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Oct.1992-
Mai 1993

Employee at the HUK-Coburg Insurance

SS 2010

Lecturer for the Academy of the State Museums
Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum
Seminar: Magical Practices in Papua New Guinea

WS 2009

Lecturer for the Academy of the State Museums
Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum
Seminar: Culture Change in Papua New Guinea

May 2008

One week workshop: Visual anthropology for students
of the Albert-Schweitzer-Schule, Berlin (cooperation
with the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin)

2001-2002

Seminars: Intercultural Communication, Script
Development
Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty: Media and
Communication Studies

SS 2001, WS 2002

Seminars: Visual Anthropology, Film-Editing
Ethnologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg
Faculty: Anthropology

Fluent:

German, English, Melanesian Tok Pisin

Basic knowledge:

French, Portugese, Samoan, Bena

July-Nov 2012

First research period in DoBeS project:
Documentation of Bena Language, Eastern
Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Topic/Keywords: Material culture, culture change,
relation between language and cultural concepts

Feb 2005-
Nov 2006

PHD Research in Bena, EHP, Papua New Guinea
Topic/Keywords: Culture change, syncretism,
exchange, person

Sept 2003-
Sept. 2004

PhD Research in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New
Guinea. Topics: Intercultural communication,
concepts of time, culture change

Mai-Oct 1997

MA Research in Papua New Guinea. Topic: Gender
roles, transformative changes in the social roles of
women

Since 1997

Independent filmmaker

Specific Skills:

• Script development
• Flexible and culturally sensitive audiovisual documentation of events, persons, activities
• Camera, Sound, Editing
• Software: FINAL CUT PRO, AVID

since 1997

Anthropological Research

Specific Skills:

• Confident use of different methods and
  techniques of documentation even under difficult
  conditions
• Confident and profound data analysis and
  organisation, interpretation and presentation of
  data
• Excellent communication skills and great
  competence in intercultural communication
• Experience in mediation and conflict managment
• Excellent ability to work in teams

2001–2004

Chair of the AG Visuelle Anthropologie of the German
Society for Anthropology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Völkerkunde)

Interests and Hobbies

Intercultural communication, Travelling, Languages,
Exhibitions/Museums, Social Engagement, Film,
Literature, Music, Art history