Tania Peitzker, (born March 1, 1970), a writer, literary scholar and publicist for the Creative Industries.
Tania Peitzker was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Potsdam for her Cultural Studies analysis of the twentieth century Australian author, Dymphna Cusack.[1][2] This work won the inaugural "Australia Award" in 1998, created by the annual awards´ jury of the International Federation of University Women in Geneva, Switzerland. The main thesis was published as an essay by the historic literary journal, Southerly, University of Sydney.[3] The dissertation is held in the National Libraries of Germany, France and Australia,[4] as well as in the special collections of a number of notable universities in Europe.[5]
She has worked in publishing, journalism, academia, theatre and broadcasting. [6] From Berlin, Zurich and Geneva in the early 2000s, Tania Peitzker wrote feature articles and breaking news stories about scientific innovation, cutting edge university research and higher education reforms, specialising in knowledge transfer issues as a specialist correspondent for the Londoner Times Higher Education Supplement and the New Yorker The Wall Street Journal Europe based in Brussels. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] During this period, she contributed to the THES International Ranking of Universities by providing reports and interviews with government higher education executives, Rectors, Vice-Chancellors, Nobel Prize winners and scientists in German-speaking countries. [13]
From 1989 to 1990 in Australia, she became known for the country's first regular radio show devoted to female composers of classical music from around the globe, “Why Not Women?”, as well as her original research “A Genealogy of Australian Cultural Studies” and a history of female sexuality in Australia, acquired by the Fryer Library's Special Collections archives on her leaving Australia for Germany in 1994. [14] The monthly radio programme, “Why Not Women?” was broadcast live on the public radio station for classical music, 4MBS, and was created in collaboration with the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) in New York, USA. [15] She then set up the first Australian archive for the original recordings of contemporary compositions and historic classical music by women which the American ILWC had sent to 4MBS in the 1980s and 1990s.
After graduating from the University of Potsdam, Tania Peitzker was offered an appointment as Professor of English and Cultural Studies to create a multilingual postgraduate curriculum for the first ever European Masters Degree in Australian Studies, initiated by the English Department at the University of Lodz, Poland, with corporate and Australian Embassy support. [16] As a German graduate, Lodz University also commissioned from her a historiography on "The Cultural History of Women and Men in Europe" for an EU-funded university textbook on “European Civilisations” written by Swedish, English, Irish, Welsh and Polish academics on a grant from the Brussels-based university research programme TEMPUS.
In the field of drama, Tania Peitzker wrote and directed "Life with Marion" (1990) which ran for two seasons due to its popularity: one at the Metro Arts Theatre's dance studios and another at the University of Queensland's Cement Box Theatre. "Life with Marion" deals with contemporary society's ideas of love, religion, health and family. The three act play was first produced through government and university grants, while its second season was funded by box office revenue. Tania Peitzker later wrote "Gargoyles" - dealing with themes of spirituality, gender, migration and ageing - and the four act, epic drama written in verse, "Crux", which is a metaphorical, mystical work set in an antipodean colony.
Aside from her literary and media output, Tania Peitzker became a businesswoman in 2006 when she founded a strategic communications, investor liaison and capital raising consultancy for the Creative Industries, EU public relations, http://www.eupublicrelations.com in Berlin, Germany. [17] In March 2011, the German EU PR business was integrated as one of four Australian companies into the Sydney-based Asia Pac PR Holdings. [18]
Other innovative companies established by Tania Peitzker include the Australian New Zealand Chamber for Businesses Trading in Europe (http://www.anzchameurope.com) that sells InfoProducts via an e-shop in the USA [19]. She also co-owns a British-Australian Joint Venture which is the world´s first news aggregator to use artificial intelligence, My Own Reporter or "MOR". MOR is powered by the unique AI search engine "velmai", thus its users subscribe to a MOR velmai (http://www.myownreporter.com).
Her businesses have been reviewed and publicised in the alumni journals of Cromwell College and the University of Potsdam.[20][21].
In the early '90s in Melbourne, she modelled for (http://www.taniapeitzker.com/3.html) and was also married to the former Guangzhou University art lecturer and Chinese State Ballet photographer, Jun Chen, who has since become an established Australian artist and Archibald Prize serial finalist [22][23]. Tania Peitzker was born - and spent the first two decades of her life - in the tropical township of Cairns and, as of December 2011, lives in the village of Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, part of the metropolitan inner city of Sydney.