Larissa Vassilian

Larissa Vassilian ( born June 17 1976 in Konstanz ) is a German journalist German - Armenian origin. She became famous by her stage name Annik Rubens with her podcast " Sleepless in Munich " ( SiM ), with whom she regularly reaches over 10,000 listeners. This makes it one of the most successful Podcasterinnen in the German language area. She lives in Munich.

Life

Vassilian was born as the daughter of German painter from Lower Bavaria Sylvia Vassilian and the Armenian graduate computer scientist Rouben Vassilian. She attended the Franz -Marc -Gymnasium in Markt Schwaben. After high school she studied from 1995 to 2003 as part of a master's degree program American Cultural History, Political Science and International Studies at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. In 2003 and 2004 she completed a correspondence course Freelance Writing and Feature at the London School of Journalism.

Journalistic career

Journalistic went through several stations Vassilian first as an intern and freelancer for various print media. Among other things, she was ( three days! ) As Pauschalistin for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Ebersberg, the evening paper, and very briefly worked for the Munich edition of Bild Zeitung ( 2001). Other activities led them to go> city magazine in Munich and from 2004 to 2005 including as editor of the departments TV & Cinema GONG and image radio. As a freelancer, she wrote from 2003 to 2007 cinema critic for the Baden-Württemberg Youth newspaper Yaez ( Yaez publisher), for which she writes again also from 2009. She is also active for radio stations such as the SWR and the Bavarian Runkfunk and a regular contributor on the topics of Internet / computer / new media. Since 2008 she has written as an opinion -maker short video columnist for the portal zoomer.de, which was discontinued in 2009.

Podcasting

In addition to the launched in 2005 " Sleepless in Munich " she ran with Timo Hetzel until October 1, 2006 or the podcast " films and so " to which there was also a video podcast.

Vassilian is actively pursuing a number of other, lesser known podcasts with the name Audible Hörletter ( commercial) and handling hearing. The commercial Podcast Track Cast and podcast Podparade ( Bayern 3) were adjusted for the IKEA podcast she produced the first three episodes. Your podcast Anniks Hörtipp has been moved to a category of " Sleepless in Munich ". In addition, she has created 99 Podcasts Podcast Directory. It also takes up the highly successful in English-speaking German podcast Slow with which they are German learning students a chance to practice their German.

SiM she put on 19 September 2006 in favor of a creative break with the 400th episode provisionally. On 5 December 2006 she launched with the result 401, the second season of " Sleepless in Munich " as a weekly podcast. This brought them together with Jens -Uwe Krause the new and very popular section of the Podvela, in which she wrote letters to him. The category was discontinued in December 2008 after the start of parental leave by Krause. Since 2006 she has workshop lecturer for the course " music journalism " at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Munich, she teaches also at the ems Electronic Media School at Babelsberg, at the German School of Journalism in Munich, at the IFP in Munich, the SAE, VHS and other educational institutions.

Since March 2009 Vassilian sends along with the fictional character Moose, the Moose, a video podcast called replacement TV, whose last episode so far was seen in May 2010.

Furthermore, in March 2010, the common audio podcast Na Servus with the - called Podcaster Alexander Wunschel to life, which appears about every 14 days, each containing about an hour Nahbesprechungsgymnastik between the two podcasters - also based in Munich. In episode 14 Larissa Vassilian was the end of November 2010, the birth of her first son known.

Prices

• 2005 Vassilian received the award in the category Non-English Winner in the U.S. Podcast Awards.
• In 2006 she was honored at the first German Podcast Awards with a special prize.
• 2008 European Podcast Award, winner in the category " Personality"

More Releases

• Finns travel in pajamas, ISBN 9783000263347
• Podcasting. The book on audio blogging. O'Reilly 2006, ISBN 3897214598 (excerpts online at Google Books )
• A lion celebrating a birthday, Carlsen Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3551039216 (example page online under textontime.de )
• Swimming fun with Baby Born