I was born in 1978 in the Ruhr region, a contiguous area of several large cities, at that time characterized by the automotive industry and large universities. I only know the dusty gray of the coal age from old stories; rather, I spent my childhood in spacious parks and in my grandfather’s allotment garden.
Together with a foster sister and a cat, I grew up with my parents. Already in kindergarten I discovered some passions that accompany me until today and shape my professional life: Creativity (while the others played in the sandbox I had a painting table in the sun), organization (the spider there on the wall can easily be carried outside with a glass), entrepreneurial spirit (much to the displeasure of the boys, the construction carpet turned into a cowgirl carriage), technical understanding (we were not allowed to bring toy guns, so I built some as cowgirls we had to defend ourselves appropriately ...).
After this wonderful time I went to a catholic elementary school, later to a state high school, which I finished in 1997 with Abitur.
Since I didn’t have a concrete career idea yet, I started studying social sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum with the subjects Media Education / Educational Psychology, Adult Education / Adult Education, minor subjects: Catholic Theology, Social Sciences. It turned out to be very fortunate that the chair of Educational Psychology was filled shortly after I started my studies, which added a new research focus: Media Education. Prof. Dr. Kerres already focused his research on interactive learning environments at this early time of the Internet, a topic for which I immediately caught fire.
The opportunity arose for a study-accompanying research project on behalf of Futurekids Germany: Video documentation of didactic teaching approaches for the further education of teachers in media competence in the classroom.
Building on this, my empirical master’s thesis became: Conception of further training for teachers on “basic information technology education” and “media competence”.
Besides the content of my studies, I learned how to program and design websites. During my studies, I realized I wanted to work in this field as an entrepreneur.
After graduating as Magistra Artium, I started my business. At first I worked as a freelance web designer for companies and organizations in Landau. My son was two years old ideal for me to build up a company on the side, gradually. After his schooling, I built up my seminar center in the PVA-Medienhaus in Landau to give PC seminars and Internet security training with my own online platform.