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She studied to become a secondary school teacher (English/German) at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Tübingen and, during that time, worked as a foreign language assistant for ten months at a grammar school and a comprehensive school in Colchester (England). After passing the First State Examination (Erstes Staatsexamen), she completed a traineeship at the Südwest Presse. This was followed by a trip around the world and a brief period working as an editor before she returned to university to pursue her doctorate. For this, she received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

Alongside her doctoral studies, she worked as a freelance journalist for the German Press Agency (dpa) and as a lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the universities of Tübingen and Potsdam. From 2021 to 2023, she was a lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben) in journalism at the Magdeburg-Stendal 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Applied Sciences.