Angelika Beba, translator

About the translator: Angelika Beba

  • Born in Freiburg, Germany
  • Studies in Constance/Germany (French and German literature, linguistics), Aix-en-Provence/France (French degree in linguistics) and Nice/France (French degree for teaching German in grammar schools)
  • Project manager logistics: conference and congress organization, realization of leisure and business programmes on the Côte d'Azur for international companies (during 6 years)
  • Translator for french and german since 10 years
  • Teacher of german since 6 years

I came to the South of France for my studies at the University. Rather quickly I literally fell in love with the country, its people, its language, its humor and its culture. Finally I decided to settle in France, but without losing the contact with my country and my mother tongue. For personal and professional reasons I have very frequent contact with German speaking people and I am very often in Germany. I got used to handle both languages equally and to switch quickly and easily from French into German and vice versa.

Today I work as a free-lance translator and assistant. My office is at my home, which is located in a small hilltop village near Nice. The airport of the «capital of the Côte d'Azur» allows me to be extremely flexible from a geographical point of view: there are very many flights to all European destinations, including hourly flights to Paris of course.