Maja Linnemann studied Sinology in Bremen, Chengdu, Hamburg and London. Her first degree had a business focus. She has lived and worked in the PR China for more than 15 years, mostly as editor: First in the business field at the Austrian Trade Office, later within the social and cultural field for the Goethe-Institute Beijing. At the Goethe Institute, she was editor-in-chief of the German Chinese Culture Net.
Between 2013 and 2018, Maja was managing director of the Confucius Institute Bremen. Since 2019, she works as a translator (Chinese-German, English-German), author and editor, among others for the CITYMAKERS project. Maja’s particular interests and research areas include: Libraries, cemeteries, museums, ruins, (city) narratives, healthy city… and, of course, people.