About

Portrait of Emily Ludwig

Emily-Josephine Ludwig grew up in Radebeul, went to New York at eighteen for a summer that changed the shape of her twenties, and has been circling between Dresden, Berlin and Munich ever since.

She's currently finishing a degree in Public Relations at IU International University, after a detour through American Studies and German Literature at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin — the kind of academic path that reads less like a plan and more like a series of good instincts.

Alongside her studies she's worked on both sides of it: online marketing and content for a Dresden beach club, years of event management, sales internships in Munich's fashion world with Drykorn, Copenhagen Studios and BY BAR.

Based between

Dresden · Berlin · Munich

Studying

Public Relations, IU

Speaks

EN · DE · RU

Writing here since

2023

Education

  • 2024 — now

    IU International University

    Public Relations, Bachelor

  • 2023 — 2024

    Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

    American Studies, German Literature

  • 2022

    The School of The New York Times

    Pre-College Program, NYC

  • 2015 — 2022

    Gymnasium Luisenstift

    Abitur, Radebeul

Experience

  • 2024 — 2025

    Sales Internship, Drykorn Showroom

    Fashion Agency Knierer, Munich

  • 2022 — 2024

    Online Marketing & Content

    Ostrabeach Beachclub, Dresden

  • 2021 — 2024

    Event Management

    Events2Move & Rock'nFood, Dresden

  • 2018 — 2020

    Sales

    Cocoon, Dresden

Why

Most of life happens in the parts nobody documents.

Not the photo — the version you chose to keep. Not the trip — the feeling you couldn't explain on the flight home. This site exists to sit with the actual thing before it flattens into a caption.

Curious

Unfiltered

Reflective

Present

What

This is where the rest of it lives — the parts that don't fit in a press release.