Stream of thoughts

Heinz Werner is founder of an internationally operating trading company that he directed for decades. For a long time, he lived abroad, outside of Germany, and is still travelling the entire world. He is still actively working in national and international committees of trade and economic policy and often gives lectures at universities and colleges in Germany as well as in countries outside of Germany. He was a member of the ITC, the International Trade Committee of EuroCommerce, vice president of the BGA, the board of trustees of wholesale and foreign trade in Berlin, Germany and for many years he was very active in leading committees of world trade in Brussels, Belgium. Heinz Werner is author of a reference book about foreign trade called “Basiswissen Außenhandel – Global Sourcing” (Basic Knowledge Foreign Trade – Global Sourcing), of a book about Europe named “Mein Europa – Quo vadis” (My Europe-Quo vadis) and of a compact book about national anthems and the football World Cup 2014 in Brazil. His first book was released in 1983 as a novel. Occasionally he writes short stories for literature portal webpages. Heinz Werner lives in a part of Germany called the Rhön, but very often in France as well.

Born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, the translator moved to Berlin, Germany in 1991 and is considered a native in German. After her A-level exams she studied European Management Assistant at the Internationale Wirtschaftsakademie in Berlin. She has a degree from the IHK (German CCI) and from the London CCI as Foreign Languages Coresspondant for English. The translator, Elisa Carow has worked as a freelance translator for minor projects as well as for the ZALF Muencheberg and has already translated a book from English to German. She is also the publisher of this book as she owns a publishing house in the East of Germany. "Stream of thoughts" is the first book she has translated from German to English.