Dr.
Ina Verstl
Who I am is a whole collection of things. I am a
journalist. A chronicler. An awful lot of my life I spend as a
foreigner when I am abroad on research trips. Call me an
outsider. That thing of being slightly apart. As a journalist,
particularly in first-person journalism, you have to be the
person who stands back, who stands aside and listens.
However, websites must have “bios”, so here
is an edited version of mine.
Born in Munich. Educated in England. Studied
economics, philosophy and literature in Munich, Hull, and
Oxford. My doctoral thesis “The Quarry of the Self - Bildung and
the Subversion of Identity” was accepted by the University of
Zurich.
From 1992 until 1997 I was press officer at
the Munich Trade Fair Corporation, one of the world’s leading
trade fair organisations. Freelance journalist ever since. I am
currently a special feature writer and commentator for Brauwelt
International.
Every journalist has a pet book project. Mine
will be on the globalisation of the brewing industry called,
provisionally and unamazingly, Beer Monopoly. When will it be
finished? Honestly, I don’t know.
I have lectured and debated at numerous
gatherings of the brewing industry: Nairobi, Singapore, San
Francisco, Prague, Adelaide, Sydney and Munich.
Although I generally share Groucho Marx’s
attitude to clubs, I make an exception for the European Network
of Business Ethics (EBEN), of which I am a member.
These days, I call Berlin home.
