About Anli Serfontein
Anli Serfontein is a South African freelance writer and journalist, sometime lecturer and translator, living in Trier on the Moselle.
She has broad-ranging experience working in the international media as a television producer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and researcher. She has worked for all the big names in television. She studied documentary film-making at IKON Television in The Netherlands in the early eighties before returning to South Africa in 1986.
After working in southern Africa during the heady late Eighties and early Nineties, covering States of Emergencies, township unrest, the road to independence in Namibia, Mandela's release and the multi-party talks in South Africa, she settled in Germany in 1995.
Anli has lived in three countries - South
Africa, The Netherlands and Germany. She has specialised in writing on inter-cultural, inter-religious and ecumenical issues.
Her first book "From Rock to Kraut" was published in March 2008. The book humourously relates her story of settling in Germany and the problems she encountered along the way. It received wide-spread acclaim.
In September 2008 the book was selected Book of the Month by veteran publishet Vito von Eichborn and was published in a second edition in Germany. It is still in English, but is now called: Basteln, Wandern and Putzen: From South Africa to Trier - Living among the Krauts.
She has another two unpublished manuscripts lying in her bottom drawer. She does research for quality television programmes, freelances as a journalist and furthermore lectures and coaches Business English Presentations.
Read Anli's Blogs
Tales From Germany
From Rock to Kraut