A few weeks ago I stumbled over a University magazine, which is written by other English and American Studies students. Giving it a closer look, I saw that they were looking for more writers. Right at the first meeting I attended, I was asked to write an article for the next magazine. The “A-Journal” is a monthly magazine; the articles can be written in German or in English.

For my first article I visited the “Alumni Series” at my university. About every six weeks a former student comes to the university for a few hours and reports what he has done ever since graduation. This time it was Gesine Dammel, an editor from a big publishing house in Germany. But read for yourself.

The editor: A spider’s web
Gesine Dammel – From a curious student to a successful career

“What’s next?”, is what many students probably think after finishing University. After studying English, Slavic and German Studies at Goethe University, Gesine Dammel applied on the off chance to many different publishing houses. She was given a job at Suhrkamp; not as an editor, but as – attention cliché – a secretary. After three instructive years, she was finally able to live her dream – she became an editor herself. And she has been for 23 years now, as she told students in the fifth Alumni berichten lecture.

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