Renato
Franz Aldo BIGNAMI

Personal
details

married,
one daughter

Lützenstr.
9

10711
Berlin-Germany

Phone:
+49-030-5305-1397

Mobile:
+49-0176-4102-8247

Mail:
[email protected]

Date
and place of birth:

13.02.1963,
Mendrisio, Switzerland

Citizenship:

German

Professional
experience:

• Juli
  2018 – ongoing:

Spanish,
French, Italian and English interpreter- translator, Federal
Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Nürnberg and
Charité Virchow Hospital, Berlin.

July
2019 till Mai
2023:

• French
  and English interpreter and translator, Language
  Office, German Army, Hürth
  (Bundessprachenamt
  der Bundeswehr),
  with
  four deployments in Niger
  and Mali for
  the UN-MINUSMA mission in 2019-2021.

June
2018:

• Foundation
  of „Bignami Consulting“, a

translation
and interpretation company;

• Voluntary
  crime victim counselling at the registered association Weisser
  Ring e.V.,
  Berlin.

April
1995 to December 2017:

• Referent
  for political issues, with missions in Europe, Central and South
  America, South-East-Asia and Western Africa. German
  Federal Government,
  Berlin

Further
professional activities:

1985
to 1995:

Spanish
and Italian translator and interpreter for Italian and German
Courts of Law, German police, private companies, language
institutes etc.

Academic
education:

• Master
  in Modern History

Otto-Friedrich
University Bamberg (1984-1990),

with
additional Diploma in Journalism, Economics and Art History.

• State
  certified translator diploma for Spanish (business)

Institute
for Foreign Languages and Foreign Studies at the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg (1992-1993).

• English
  Language and culture Summer School, University
  of East Anglia, the UK (1991)

Languages:

• Mother
  tongue: German, Italian

• Fluent:
  English, Spanish, French

• Basics:
  Swiss German, Portuguese

IT
knowledge / skills:

• MS
  Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)

• ELO
  Office (management of electronic folders, files, archives)

Publications
/ Qualifications:

• Eráusquin
  M., Bignami
  R.
  (2001) La lista de Göring, Gatopardo 16: 148-174, Bogotá,
  Colombia.

• Eráusquin
  M., Bignami
  R.
  (2002) Francotirador, Gatopardo 26: 136-147, Bogotá, Colombia.

Main
translations

• (Ed.)
  Werner
  Huss,
  Karthago, Wege der Forschung, Vol. 654, Darmstadt 1992,
  Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Text
translations of Italian historians for Ancient History from
Italian into German, in cooperation with Prof.
Dr. Klaus Zimmermann, Münster.

Interpreter
swearing-in in court

Publicly
appointed and sworn translator for Spanish in Munich and Berlin
since 1994.

Credentials:

Dr.
Wolfram Hoppenstedt
Managing
Director of Federal Chancellor

Willy
Brandt Foundation

(Forum
Willy Brandt Berlin)

Behrenstraße
15

10117
Berlin, Germany

Phone:
+49-030-787-7070

Prof.
Dr. Klaus Zimmermann
Westphalian
Wilhelms University of Münster

Department of
Ancient History, Research Unit

Asia Minor, Room
250

Domplatz
20 - 22

48143
Münster, Germany

Phones:
+49-0251
– 83-24901, 83-24368

Dr.
Christian Hellbach

Former
Ambassador
to
Chile

Federal
Foreign Office

(Auswärtiges
Amt)

Werderscher
Markt 1

10117
Berlin, Germany

Phone:
+49-030 5000-0

Jürgen Christian
Mertens

Former
Ambassador
to
Argentina

Federal
Foreign Office

(Auswärtiges
Amt)

Werderscher
Markt 1

10117
Berlin, Germany

Phone:
+49-030 5000-0

Günter
Overfeld

Former
Ambassador
to
Uzbekistan

Federal
Foreign Office

(Auswärtiges
Amt)

Werderscher
Markt 1

10117
Berlin, Germany

Phone:
+49-030 5000-0