Biography

Was head of the Goethe-Institut of New York.

Both of her parents were active in the anti-Nazi resistance and she was enrolled in a private secondary school to prevent her education from being steeped in Nazi ideology.

Has two brothers, one younger and one older.

After high school she studied to become a textile designer of silk fabrics.

Began her career at Goethe-Haus in New York as Assistant to the Program Director who had been sent over from Germany. About nine years later, Goethe-Haus became a branch of the Goethe-Institut, a world-wide cultural organization. She worked as the cultural programmer of the Goethe-Institute in New York from 1962 until her retirement in 1995 at the age of sixty-five.