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Foreign languages, books and films fascinated Karin Thorne already when she was very young. Her passion became her profession. She studied from 1994 to 1998 at the state language school in Munich (Fremdspracheninstitut der Landeshauptstadt München, Fachadamie) and graduated as a state certified translator and interpreter for English and French, specialised in media and economics. She suspended her studies in 1996 for a year to work as a German assistant teacher in France. After her graduation and stay in the U.S. she studied at the university of applied science in Munich from 1999 to 2001 and graduated first and best of her year as qualified translator and interpreter in English and French, specialised in media. Since then she worked regularly as translator and interpreter abroad amongst others in the U.S., France and Belgium. She never abandoned her love for film and TV and she worked as 1st AD for different production companies since 2003. Her fluent language skills in English and French were a welcome additional qualification. Moreover, Karin Thorne writes screenplays and short stories in English, French and German.