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Place of Birth: Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Larissa Vassilian
- Larissa Vassilian (born June 17, 1976) is a German journalist of German-Armenian descent.
- She became famous for her podcast "Schlaflos in München" (Sleepless in Munich), using the stage name Annik Rubens.
- The podcast had over 10,000 listeners daily, making her one of the most successful podcasters in the German language and winning a prestigious Podcast Awards in 2005 in the "Nonenglish" category.
- For German-language learners, she made another project called "Slow German" - a podcast on a variety of topics using clear slow pronunciation and with accompanying transcript.Vassilian was born in Konstanz, Germany, to an Armenian father (Rouben Vassilian) and a Bavarian mother (Sylvia Vassilian).
- She attended the Franz-Marc-Gymnasium school in Markt Schwaben.
- After high school, from 1995 to 2003, she studied for a master's degree program in American cultural history, political science and ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
- In 2003 and 2004 she completed a correspondence course in freelance and feature writing from the London School of Journalism.
- She lives in Munich.
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