VALENTINA SARAÇINI 1962

CURRICULUM VITAE

VALENTINA SARAÇINI
 

PERSONAL DATA:

Name and surname: Valentina Saraçini
Date of birth: 24 September, 1962
Place of birth: Shkup, Macedonia
Address: Dardania 6/2 – L.6.8/39 , Prishtina
Tel: (38138) 541-100, Mobile: 377 44 158 611
E-mail : E-mail: valentina_dw@yahoo.com

 

EDUCATION:

1980-82: Studies of Psychology, University “Kiril e Metodi” of Shkup
1982: Enrolled Faculty of Law at Prishtina University
1979/80: graduate in Gymnasium in Shkup
Elementary school completed in Shkup in 1974.
 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

1980: Announcer and producer of children and youth programs in Television of Prishtina.
1982; Journalist, reporter and desk editor until 1994 in the weekly political magazine “Zeri”. I covered political events, writing also feature stories from the field, analyses, commentaries.
1994: Journalistic in the German Foreign Service Radio “Deutche Welle” for the Albanian broadcast. Until 1999 I reported on daily events from Kosova, covering all kinds of stories, conducting interviews, reporting from the field in some of most dramatic moments for Kosova, including live war reporting, filing commentaries, analyses, and all sorts of journalistic pieces.
May 1999-December 2000: Desk editor for “Deutche Welle” at its Seat at Cologne, Germany.
2000 – to date: Corresponding analyst for Deutche in Prishtina, working as well as doing freelancing for various journals and magazines published in Kosova.
 

QUALIFICATIONS:

Professional: My professional skills range from starting as a journalist and reporter to writing commentaries, analyses, editorials, feature stories, and serials. I also became known for Kosovar mass media as author of interviews with famous people, world dignitaries and noted personalities, including several heads of state, and foreign ministers, famous writers, artists, historians, scientists and other renowned personalities. I appeared with analyses and serials in a range of magazines and reviews published in Kosova. I appeared in many successful Television shows. My name has been recognized and known throughout the Albanian-speaking world as a journalist and publicist.

PUBLICATIONS:

Poetry:
“Exercising Loneliness”
Many poems short stories in various journals of culture throughout the Albanian-speaking world.

Music:
Since childhood I was a talented singer and I participated in all major music festivals throughout Kosova and former Yugoslavia, winning numerous awards. I have published several disks on Albanian songs and cantatas, some of them becoming musical hits and evergreens.