About Me

I am a React-, Responsive Web- and Front-End Developer, SEO-Manager, Journalist and Travel Blogger based in Cologne, Germany. In 2008, I graduated from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a Master of Arts degree in Journalism, Politics and Law.

My coding journey started with the beginner course of SheCodes because I needed HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills for my job as an SEO-Manager. Soon, I was so excited about coding that I also signed up for the three advanced courses at SheCodes. I have successfully completed the Front-End Development-, the Responsive Web Development and the React Development courses in which I coded a Weather App with Vanilla JavaScript, this responsive website, a React Weather App and a React Dictionary App, both using React.js.

Since spring 2018, I have been involved with SEO because it is essential for my travel blog. From April to June 2020, I attended a professional training as an SEO-Manager at the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce and I am a certified SEO-Manager ever since.

My career as a journalist started in 2001 short after starting my studies at university. I have worked as an online journalist, for newspapers, radio stations and a television broadcasting among others for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, SWR3 and a German-Chilean newspaper in Santiago de Chile.

I write bilingually in English and in German on my travel blog The Travelling Colognian. The focus of this website is on off the beaten path-, adventure- and solo female travels. I travelled to more than 50 countries and lived in Beijing, Santiago de Chile and San José de Costa Rica.