Education
After a year living in Scotland, she studied English, Celtic studies and German language and literature at the universities in Köln, Galway (Ireland), Berkeley (California) and Freiburg (Breisgau).
After a year living in Scotland, she studied English, Celtic studies and German language and literature at the universities in Köln, Galway (Ireland), Berkeley (California) and Freiburg (Breisgau).
She lives in Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg. After graduating from school in 1986 Pehnt performed voluntary social work in Belfast (Northern Ireland). After her masters degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg with a work on Irish literature.