Mistress of Ceremonies

Remember when I emceed my close friends‘ wedding anniversary? It was the start of a wonderful journey that let me to become an event moderator!

As a conference interpreter, I'm experienced in speaking publicly. I learned quite a bit about public speaking when I was at uni. I practised speaking in front of an audience with confidence and ease in consecutive interpreting seminars and developed rhetorical and speech skills with the help of video analysis. I‘m used to speaking to a large audience and feel confident on stage. As an interpreter, I have experience in interpreting welcoming words and after-dinner speeches and am therefore familiar with storytelling, dramaturgy, and the structure of speeches. I have given several lectures on topics relevant to the interpreting industry myself and know how to use stage fright to my advantage. And I guess, I am naturally outgoing, too.

But does that make me a good MC? In my case, it does. Moderating an event requires just as much preparation, heart, spontaneity, communication skills, sociability, stress resistance and resilience as interpreting the very same event, maybe even more so! Me, I am passionate about interpreting, and I especially enjoy consecutive assignments on stage, but I’m also comfortable to act as an event moderator.

It all started quite early in my life, really. When I was about 11 years old, I ....