User:Claudia.Garad
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The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
--Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
If you ask me what is my native country, I answer: I was born in Fiume, grew up in Belgrade, Budapest, Pressburg [Bratislava], Vienna and Munich, and I have a Hungarian passport, but I have no fatherland. I am a very typical mix of old Austria–Hungary: at once Magyar, Croatian, German and Czech; my country is Hungary; my mother tongue is German.
--Ödön von HorváthAbout me
Due to my professional background in communication science I am passionate about communication management and it's multifacetedness - especially about strategies to promote free knowledge and educational content. In my pre-Wikimedia life I used to work as Head of Marketing and Communications for a major German science institute.
Having grown up between Germany, Austria, and Hungary, I especially enjoy the multi-cultural aspects of working for the Wikimedia movement. I also love travelling, podcasts, barbells, cheese, Tetris, and exploring Vienna's rich cultural life.
For my private, not job related work on the Wikimedia projects I use the handle Ki7sun3
My work
Centrepiece of Wikimedia Österreich's self-conception and strategy is to sustain motivated and active Wikimedia communities as a reliable service provider. My job is to support this by developing suitable strategies and tools for program / project planning as well as mutual learning based on trust and sound communication structures.
Within the wider movement I like to support activities and networks regarding diversity and inclusion, cuteness, capacity building, and organisational development.
 | This user supports Cuteness in the Wikimedia movement |
Contact me
- e-mail:
claudia.garad@wikimedia.at
You can talk to me in English and German. And French if you talk really, really slowly ;)