Eva Maria Rendle

rendle@tolerance-net.org

Eva Rendle has been an assistant for the project "Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance" at the Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich since May 2001. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in linguistics, political science and theology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Eva Maria Rendle was born in Southern Germany in 1977.
She graduated from High School in 1996. An internship with a newspaper office introduced her to the professional field of journalism and motivated her to pursue that career. Keeping that perspective in mind she, however, decided to first gather some intense experience abroad. Volunteering for a church organization in Chile gave her the opportunity to combine charitable work with her interest in Latin America. The project included six months of work in a children’s home and six months in a parish. This experience later evoked her focus on developmental politics in general and Latin American culture in particular.

Returning to Germany in 1997, she enrolled as an undergraduate student of linguistics, political science and theology at the University of Tübingen. During that time she extended her journalistic practice through further internships and by freelancing for various newspapers. Additionally, she started teaching classes in German as a foreign language to refugees, motivated by the idea of providing them with language skills as a means of integration. She has been committed to this project until today, now working for the "Verein Deutsch für Flüchtlinge” (= association of German for refugees) in Munich.

In 1999 Eva Maria Rendle returned to Chile in order to do an internship with the Chilean human rights organization "CODEPU” in Valdivia, focussing on the reappraisal of dictatorship and its still actual challenges for the process of democratization. Afterwards, she enrolled in a graduate program at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, continuing her studies in linguistics, political sciences and theology with an emphasis on social ethics.

Besides her journalistic freelance work, Eva gained insight into the publishing industry by assisting the edition of "Langenscheidt” dictionaries as a free lector.

In spring 2000 she stayed in Essen for two months having an internship with the public relations department of "Adveniat”, a church organization supporting Latin American countries.
Since spring 1999 she receives a scholarship from "Cusanuswerk” (the scholarship committee of the German Catholic Church). Eva Rendle contributes to the "Cusanercorrespondenz”, the official magazine of the "Cusanuswerk” as an editor.

In 2001 she participated in an additional study program "Individual and Academics”, which was designed to provide the students with personal and communication skills.
Eva’ s professional ambitions shifted from a mere journalistic emphasis to pursuing a career in the field of politics, particularly international relations. Accordingly, her master thesis is planned to deal with the interrelation between linguistics and politics.