Career
The podcast has over 10,000 listeners daily, making her one of the most successful podcasters in the German language and winning a prestigious in 2005 in the "Nonenglish" category. Foreign 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.