Thomas Hartwig

CURRICULUM VITAE

THOMAS HARTWIG

 

PRESENT ADDRESS:

Houtzagerssingel 64, 2512 XH The Hague (The Netherlands)

Tel: +31 (0)70-36.55.172

 

PERSONAL

Date of Birth:                        12th January 1972

Nationality:                           German

 

EDUCATION

10/91 - 08/99                       UNIVERSITY OF JENA (Germany)

German Philology, German as a Foreign Language, Psychology (M.A.)

final year thesis: comparison of the rhetoric of literature and film

08/94 - 05/95                       UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (Netherlands)

Comparative Literature and Film Studies

09/88 - 07/90                       GYMNASIUM GESCHWISTER SCHOLL, Magdeburg (Germany)

                                               Abitur (equivalent to A-levels)

 

LANGUAGES

German (native speaker), Dutch (NT2: state exam Dutch as a Foreign Language), English (fluent), French, Latin (Latin proficiency certificate)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

since 07/02                           T & MD

                                               freelance translator

Areas of Expertise: literature, arts and humanities, psychology, film and tv, marketing, business correspondence, contracts, terms and conditions, and general texts

 

07/00 - 06/02                       WILKENS c.s., Leiderdorp (Netherlands)

                                               translator/revisor

translating documents (law, business, financial, general, technical) from English and Dutch into German, proofreading

 

12/99 - 06/00                       HOFSTAD LYCEUM DEN HAAG (Netherlands)

                                               german teacher

                                               high school (8^th - 12^th grade)

 

09/97 - 07/99                       INSTITUTE OF MEDIA SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF JENA

                                               assistant to the head of the institute

tutoring students on basic terms of film aesthetics and history; introducing first year students to university courses; organizing the work of the institute; running the film library

 

09/95 - 07/99                       UNIVERSITY FILM CLUB JENA

                                               running a student cinema

 

10/96 - 11/96                       ZDF (Second Programme of German TV Broadcasting), Mainz (Germany)

                                               media experience

attending the preview commission meetings taking active part in the decision making about film buying and broadcasting; preparing press kits concerning forthcoming programmes; handling viewer enquiries; deciding about suitability of films for children and youth programmes

 

04/95 - 09/95                       INSTITUTE OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF JENA

                                               assistant to the head of the institute

                                               editing a script with essays on literature

 

SOFTWARE

Windows XP, Mac OS X, Trados 8, etc.

 

The Hague, 08 November 2011