KINDSKÖPFE

It all started with curiosity. It always has. Mix that with an analytical mind, a creative streak, and a fascination for words, images, and design—and somewhere along the way, I became an editor.

Well… not immediately. As a child, I was convinced I'd become an artist, always with charcoal or a pencil in hand. The only other career I seriously considered? Stuntwoman. Preferably jumping off burning cranes. These days, my occasional longing for adrenaline is mostly satisfied by climbing the occasional via ferrata, but my curiosity—and my love for creating things—has stayed exactly the same.

After internships with photographers, magazines, art exhibitions, and environmental education projects, I completed my bachelor's degree while training as a TV editor. That's when it clicked. Researching ideas, shaping stories, developing products, and watching people engage with them—that was exactly what I wanted to do. Preferably with a sense of joy and discovery.

Then curiosity struck again. If I'd been content with what I already knew, I'd probably still be working in television today. But the big wide world kept calling. The five-year-old who used to sit on the windowsill with a world map, dreaming about Indonesia, New Zealand, Micronesia, and places too numerous to count, finally wanted to see them in real life. So I travelled.

After several years abroad and countless journeys (that five-year-old is still amazed), I completed a master's degree in Children's and Young Adult Media, worked in educational programmes with children, and eventually joined a publishing house as an editor and project manager for board books. That was where everything came together. I discovered how broad and playful media for young children can be—from tactile elements and rattles to lift-the-flaps and sound modules. It was a place where curiosity met creativity, where ideas found structure, and where thoughtful design always started with the child.

That's still at the heart of what I do today. With experience across publishing, media, education, and product development, a broad professional network, and the same curiosity that started it all, I collaborate with publishers, companies, cultural institutions, non-profit organisations, and creative teams to develop ideas, media, and products that are thoughtful, playful, and genuinely meaningful.