Victoria B. Robinson

Victoria B. Robinson (born November 5, 1980 in Nuremberg ) is a German freelance journalist , presenter and author .

Life and career

Victoria B. Robinson was born in Middle Franconia and grew up temporarily in the USA , where her parents moved with her shortly after she was born. She graduated from high school and studied American Studies and Law at the University of Hamburg from 2002 to 2007 , completing a six-month course at the University of Maryland, College Park in the USA in 2005 . She graduated with a master's (MA) in American studies and public law .

In addition to school and studies, she worked as a journalist for print media and for various television stations . Among other things, she wrote for the Nürnberger Nachrichten from the end of 1998 to 2000, and in 2000 she worked at times as a music editor for NBC GIGA . As a TV editor, she worked at Schwartzkopff TV Production from 2000 to 2001 , where she worked on the TV talk show series Britt - Der Talk um Eins, as well as at Grundy UFA in 2002 and at NDR from 2002 to 2003 .

In 2007 she worked for various companies in the field of market research and public relations . Since then she has been working as a freelance journalist, moderator , editor , PR consultant and author.

Robinson is active in the “Black German Community”, a member of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) and a founding member of the Black European Women's Council (BEWC) , in which she represents Germany . She works for the RespectResearchGroup , a joint research project between the University of Hamburg and the Rotterdam School of Management . Robinson was committed and committed to the concerns of Afro-Germans in lectures and seminars as well as in the BLACKprint blog she ran from 2006 to early 2009 . In 2008 she was selected by the British Council as one of “100 Potential Leaders” from Europe and North America for the Transatlantic Network 2020 (TN2020) project.

Robinson lives and works in Hamburg .

Publications (selection)

Books

• 111 reasons to love men. A hymn of praise to the stronger sex . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89602-888-4 .
• Hill Slam. Novel . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2009 (= Anais; Vol. 9), ISBN 978-3-89602-556-2 .
• 111 reasons to have a best friend . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-960-7 .

Book contributions

• Shockingly happy . In: Voices of Black European Women. Part 1. Reflections, Challenges and Strategies from the Vienna Congress 2007 . Black European Publishers, Vienna 2008, without ISBN. (English)
• Several articles in: Noah Sow : Deutschland Schwarz Weiß. Everyday racism . 1st edition, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-570-01008-2 . (Such as the spoken word poetry text Innocent Racism and texts from the blog "BLACKprint")

Media contributions

• Our barrack . Comment on the US election in 2008. In: taz , category: issues of the day , on 6 November 2008 (as digitized on afrikanet.info freely available online, called on 27 July 2009)

Web links

• Official website of Victoria B. Robinson
• Information about Victoria B. Robinson on the XING Internet platform
• Literature by and about Victoria B. Robinson in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} See information about Victoria B. Robinson on XING (see web links).
2. ↑ Personal statement ( memento of the original from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Victoria B. Robinson on the RespectResearchGroup website (accessed July 27, 2009). 
3. ↑ Blackprint - Blog , which was operated from 2006 to early 2009 by Victoria B. Robinson (accessed July 26, 2009).
4. ↑ Transatlantic Network 2020: Four new members from Germany ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , British Council press release of September 25, 2008 ( PDF file; 28 kB; accessed July 26, 2009).