Draft:Gesine Froese

Gesine Froese (* 1947 in Rendsburg) is a German journalist and freelance author.

She began her career as a student of business administration in Nuremberg, where she worked as a model on the side. In 1969, she was invited to take part in the Miss Germany 1969 competition in Munich. As the winner of the pageant, she also qualified to participate in the Miss Universe pageant in Miami Beach, Florida.

At the end of her Miss Germany year, she trained as an editor before she studied at the University of Oldenburg to become a teacher at primary and secondary schools. After her first teacher's exam, she was employed as an editor by several different German newspapers, before becoming a freelance correspondent for the Caribbean and Latin America with an office in Bogotá and then Cartagena, Colombia at the end of 1991.

Gesine Froese has been working as a freelance author in Germany since 1995, writing travel guides in particular. Her travel guides have been translated into English, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese and Italian and have been published in more than ten countries.