Renee Schwaller

was born in December 1949 in Freiburg, Southern Germany. In 1973 she joined Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) and worked there until 2004. For more than thirteen years she worked in the Asian programme of Deutsche WeIle. It was here that she began to write for magazines and radio programmes. Then she moved on to the Department of Public Relations and Communications. Here she was responsible for Deutsche WeIle's English-language publications. Later she was charged with the media political press review for DW's supervisory bodies, department heads and colleagues for two years. It was published daily in DW's Intranet network.