Tanja Mittelstaedt

Dear Tanja, with your cheerful and dynamic nature you give our team a wonderfully positive kick. Thanks to your training as a typographer and your communication design diploma, you have a broad foundation for advising customers, managing projects and supporting your colleagues. You also keep things moving with the accounting department and are a real team player. Your holistic thinking and your knowledge of human nature make you a great asset to us as a team in general and to me in particular, because I see you as my most important sparring partner.

Thank you for being with us.
Your husband Jan

Career
Abitur 1991; apprenticeship as typographer at Jacob Druck in Konstanz, then 2.5 years in this profession; one year pre-studies in design in Meersburg; communication design studies in Konstanz (after the 5th semester our son Jannik was born); diploma 2001; in September 2003 our daughter Lisa was born; since October 2006 I have been working at LGM.

Things I like about myself
My being organized (despite being a mess)

Things I do not like about myself
I am not very consequent about myself…

Things I am proud of
My children, my marriage, sometimes also myself ;o)

People I used to admire
Michael Jordan

People I admire today
My parents

Jobs I have had in my life so far
Babysitter; in the bookbindery at Jacob Druck, then apprenticeship there; cleaning in a doctor’s office; medical assistant (but not trained); internship in an agency in Ludwigsburg; nude model

Movies I can watch over and over again
Sex and the City, Friends, Back to the Future, Monster AG, The Bull’s Eye, Leathal Weapon, Die Hard, Groundhog Day, Von ganzem Herzen, Chocolat, Mr and Mrs Smith, Bourne Trilogy, Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13, Under the Tuscan Sun

Genius Movie Quotes
“… Feels like flossing.”

Places I have lived so far
Constance, 7 weeks in Ludwigsburg, 2.5 months in Pittsburgh, and Constance again

TV shows I like to watch
Documentaries

Ways in which I can relax
With a latte macchiato, preferably sitting in the sun; with a good movie and a good glass of red wine, in the sauna of the Lake Constance thermal baths

Books I can recommend
Der Pubertist, all three Stieg Larsson crime novels, all John Grisham books… especially “The Feast”.

Places I have been on vacation
Diano Marina, Venice, Bologna, Parma, Lerici, Milan, Berlin, Rügen, Lake Garda, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Mallorca, Paris, Crete, Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago, Washington, Charlotte, Cleveland, Boston, somewhere in Yugoslavia, Krachtenfahrt through Holland, several places in Spain, Paris, somewhere in France

Websites I visit every day
Qiero (grin)

Great commercials
Get a Mac

Ingenious advertising slogans
Mach es fertig! Bevor es dich fertig macht! (Get it done before it gets you done)

Favorite foods
Pizza

Favorite drinks
Latte Macchiato, good red wines

Favorite actors
Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Diane Keaton

Music I like to listen to at the moment
Lenny Kravitz

Newspapers/magazines I read
everything you can read in the waiting room at the doctor’s…

Sports I like
basketball, formula 1, watching soccer with Jannik

Things that enrich my life
My family, vacations, my iPhone

Places I can recommend in Konstanz
Ice cream parlor Dolomiti, Restaurant Seelig, Don Alfredo

Wishes I have
To continue to have the people who are important to me around me. Everyone should stay healthy!

My motto/wisdom
To always be there for my children