A Career in Journalism with German

Meet Brian Melican, a British journalist, author and translator living in Hamburg

In a live online conversation on Monday, 11th March, Brian Melican will speak to the Goethe-Institut London about his career and his experiences with German and in Germany and answer your students’ questions.

Please register via the form below. This event is free of charge, but we ask teachers to collect questions in German or English from their pupils and share those with the Goethe-Institut before the event. This way, Brian can answer those questions live and enter into conversation with your students.

Download the including teaching materials and recommendations on how to prepare for the event: 

Target group: Y9 – Y13

Registration for schools via Eventbrite

About Brian Melican
Born and raised in Britain, since 2008 Brian has been living in Germany, working as a journalist, author, and translator. He is based in Hamburg. Through to 2011, he used the multi-media brand Lost in Deutschland to talk about his experiences as a British person in Germany (mainly in German): this tongue-in-cheek yet informative look at life out here includes blogs, articles in newspapers, online videos and a book. As of mid-2011, Brian reorientated the Lost in Deutschland project to look at other English-speaking writers who spent time in, lived in, and wrote about Germany. The results of this have been available as a book since May 2013.In September 2015, his latest publication was released: a cultural, historical, and literary guide to Frankfurt. Brian also works as a journalist and translator for several clients - both directly and through agencies. For more information, visit his website.