translator, interpreter (English, German, Mandarin, French, Spanish)

Cila Brosius

Address: c/o Rosenwald, **** Fifth Ave 7A New York, NY 10128

Phone: +49-251-****** (Germany) / 917-***-**** (USA)

E-mail: *****@******.**

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

First Name: Cila

Last Name: Brosius

Date of birth: 01/24/1990

Place of Birth: New York, USA

Citizenship: Germany, USA (dual citizenship)

Gender: Female

EDUCATION:

September 2013: University of Heidelberg, Germany, East Asian Studies

and Ethnology, BA

(grade: 1.5 equivalent 3.86 GPA)

September 2012 –April 2013: ERASMUS exchange semester

Institute des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris,

France

• Major: Chinese Studies

October 2010 –March 2011: University of Freiburg, Germany

• Majors: Chinese Studies and Anthropology

June 2009: Graduation from secondary school with German Abitur

(grade: 1.4 equivalent 3.8 GPA)

EXPERIENCES ABROAD AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

1990 –1994 Born in New York, NY, USA

1994 – 2009 Raised in Germany

March-June 2006 High school attendance in Santa Cruz, CA, USA during

family sabbatical

February –May 2007 Three-month stay at Spanish host family and attendance of

a local public school in the municipality of Sentmenat near

Barcelona, Spain

July 2007 10-day stay in Sicily, Italy as participant of a nature and

animal preserve project

December 2008 Five-day stay in Beijing, China as accompaniment on a

business trip

September 2009 –July 2010 Year abroad as a volunteer English teacher at a local

middle school in Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province,

China

Responsibilities

• Teaching English at public middle schools and giving

private English instruction

• Organization of cultural exchange projects (e.g.

penpalship between German and Chinese students)

• Welfare projects (e.g. participation in clothing

distribution, organization of sponsorships for

impoverished families in Yunnan)

August-September 2011 Two months internship at a bilingual editor’s office

REDSTAR Times Media Co, Ltd in Qingdao, Shandong

Province, China

Responsibilities

• Design work for monthly bilingual magazine Redstar

(advertisement)

• Writing (articles on culture, travel)

• Translation (Chinese to English)

December 2011 Five-day stay in Suzhou, China as a personal translator on a

business trip

Summer 2012 Work at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict

Research (HIIK) as author for conflicts in Papua New

Guinea, section Asia and Oceana, published in the

“Conflict Barometer 2012”

Sept 2012-April 2013 ERASMUS exchange semester at the Institute Nationale

des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris,

France

November 2013 – current Internship at the gallery Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New

York City, USA

ART-RELATED EXPERIENCE:

2011-2013 Courses on East Asian Art History and art-related

Anthropology during studies at Heidelberg University

• “Concepts and methods of the Anthropology of art with

the example of Documenta13”

• “The Museum in the 21st Century: Looting, Archaeology,

and the Fate of the Object”

June 2012 Field trip to dOCUMENTA13 in Kassel, Germany

June 2013 Field trip to Berlin within the framework of a seminar in

the East Asian Art History department of Heidelberg “The

Museum in the 21st Century: Looting, Archaeology, and

the Fate of the Object”

November 2013-present Internship at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York as gallery

assistant

Responsibilities

• Installation/ deinstallation of exhibitions

• Planning, organizing, and presenting of exhibitions and

shows

• Communication with clients and artists

• Maintaining gallery advertisement

• Arranging transportation of art work

• Developing client lists and notifying potential clients of

works and exhibitions

• Keeping records, archives and inventory

• Research on particular artists and industry developments

• Writing and distribution of press releases on the gallery’s

art exhibitions

November-December 2013 Assistance during exhibition MICA: Then/ Now at

Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY

November-December 2013 Assistance during exhibition Iran Art Now at Ethan Cohen

New York, NY

January-February 2014 Assistance during solo exhibition CHOCO PIE

PROPAGANDA at Ethan Cohen New York, NY

December 2013 Assistance during art fairs Art Miami and Scope, Miami

Beach, FL

March 2014 Assistance during art fairs Scope New York and Volta

New York, NY

March 1 Assistance during installation of solo exhibition

QIN FENG: Ink Innovator at Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon,

NY

March 2014-Present Assistance during exhibition FLOW: Ink Innovators at

Ethan Cohen New York, NY

May 2014 Assistance during art fair Cutlog, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS:

“Papua New Guinea (Opposition)”, in Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict

Research. Conflict Barometer 2012 (ed.), Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X, p. 92.HIIK,

2013

“Papua New Guinea (Socioeconomic Protests)”, in Heidelberg Institute for International

Conflict Research. Conflict Barometer 2012 (ed.), Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X, p.

92f.HIIK, 2013

“Papua New Guinea (Tribal Violence)”, in Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict

Research. Conflict Barometer 2012 (ed.), Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X, p. 93.HIIK,

2013

“World on the Fringe – Dulong Valley”, in REDSTAR, Qingdao: REDSTAR Times

Media Group, p. 23-24, January 2012

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Native languages: English

German

Fluency: Chinese, Mandarin

• private lessons from 2001 – 2009

• 10-month volunteer work in China

• three-month internship in China

• Chinese Studies as first major (undergraduate studies)

French

• middle school courses from 2003 –2008

• semester abroad in Paris, France from 2012 –2013

Proficiency: Spanish

• middle school courses from 2005 – 2009

• three-month exchange program to Spain in 2007

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

• Art (Drawing, Painting, Illustration)

• Cinematography (Chinese-language films/ Chinese independent films)

• Creative Writing

• Acting (Theater)

• Music (Piano)

• Sports (Martial Arts, Dance)

• Languages

• Travel

• Cultural Exchange/Communication

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