Alisa Anh Kotmair

Contributing writer, copyeditor & proofreader for books on design and architecture, including: Northern Delights: Scandinavian Homes, Interiors and Design. Velo - 2nd Gear. Bicycle Culture and Style. A Girl's Best Friends. Creative Jewelry Design. Boxed & Labelled Two! New Approaches to Packaging Design.

Freelance project management & consulting for independent artists and small businesses in the creative industry.

freelance film and video editing, production coordination, directing. Companies I have worked with in Germany include Voodoopop, insglueck, studio mitte, Topalsson GmbH, cine plus, tvt.postproduction, Sat.1 television.

Writing, editing and translation with focus on arts/ culture, lifestyle, design/ architecture and pr/ corporate communications for the luxury/travel sector. I am also interested in environmental issues/ sustainability, migration, travel, food, and film. Clients have included Uncube Magazine, Baunetz, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Tanzraum Berlin, Helmut Newton Foundation, Design Hotels AG, Berlin Berlinale International Film Festival, and independent architects, artists, and art spaces.

I was lucky to be invited to contribute to this seminal book about Asian Germans, edited by Kien Nghi Ha (Berlin: Assoziation A, 2012) In "Gedenkbilder. Auf den Spuren der vietnamesischen Diaspora in Berlin" I visit with 5 German-Vietnamese women living in Berlin, looking for traces of their relationship with "Vietnameseness" through words and images.

My short film "Sunday Menu" (2011, 24 min.) is about a young German-Vietnamese woman dealing with issues of identity in suburban Berlin. It premiered at the Berlinale International Film Festival in 2011 and has since been screened at various film festivals in the US, Europe, and Asia. I directed it under my artist name Liesl Nguyen.

Writing, editing and project coordination for international branded lifestyle magazines for Chopard and Nespresso. Multiple language versions and distribution of up to nearly 2 million copies worldwide. Close communication with multinational corporate clients, international creative talent. Management of magazine production including in-house graphics and external translating and proofreading teams.

language course

Brown in Germany exchange year