Welcome! Nice to meet you on my website! Have a look at my life as a travel writer and author of nearly 20 travel guide books, photo books and excerpts of some of my articles. I learned my profession as a journalist with an apprenticeship at a German newspaper (Nordsee-Zeitung) and then I worked as an editor at the newspaper Volksblatt Berlin and for public radio and TV-stations (ARD, Deutsche Welle...). Since 1995, I have been writing exclusively travel articles as a freelance author for the most wellknown and influential newspapers and magazines in Germany and Switzerland. Favourite countries and regions: Cuba Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka Mauritius Cyprus North Sea/Germany`s northcoast and of course: Berlin - my birthplace (1963) and hometown Favourite topics: the mighty Mekong river Cuban Salsa, motorbike driving, trekking and sailing Buddha, body & soul (buddhism, animism, hinduism...) and of course (with physical therapist as first profession): wellness, yoga and meditation REFERENCES (no. of edition/readers in 2007): (weekly) Newspapers Die ZEIT (486.722/1,44 Mio.) Financial Times Deutschland (106.580/291.000) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (379.391/890.000) Frankfurter Rundschau (196.565/360.000) Neue Zürcher Zeitung/NZZ am Sonntag (swiss: 170.000) Süddeutsche Zeitung (447.748/1,15 mio.) tageszeitung (taz; 61.472/260.000) Welt am Sonntag (412.230/1,09 mio.) Berliner Zeitung (219.305/444.000) Der Tagesspiegel Berlin (153.125/272.000) Stuttgarter Zeitung/Sonntag aktuell (449.362/2 mio.) Magazines abenteuer und reisen (103.000/540.000) Air Berlin inflight magazine Business Traveller (103.728/317.000) Freundin (569.714) FÜR SIE (487.120) GALA (396.884) LTU inflight magazine (400.000) Reise & Preise (76.134) SZ-Wellnessmagazin (1,15 mio.) TV Today (589.341) Welcome! (TUI magazine; 470.000) Publishing houses ADAC Baedeker Bruckmann Bucher DuMont HB-Verlag Komet Marco Polo Mairs Geografischer Verlag Polyglott/Langenscheidt-Verlag Vista Point Travel projects and books in 2009 Dresden North Sea/ Schleswig-Holstein River Rhine/Bonn Austria Italy (Venice and Piemont) Finland Turkey Cuba Thailand Cambodia Sri Lanka Philippines Hongkong China kontakt@martina-miethig.com Copyright: The copyright for all works (text and photos) created by the author and other photographers on this website (www.martina-miethig.com) is reserved. Any duplication or use of such diagrams, sounds or texts in any other electronic or printed publications (including TV, radio, online-media, WAP and SMS ect.) is not permitted without the author's agreement. Referrals and links: The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from her website. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable and not Martina Miethig.