Philip Hewitt
Philip Hewitt grew up and went to school in the town of Croydon
before it became part of London. He studied German and French at
Oxford and taught both languages in Britain for two years at the
Royal Merchant Navy School near Reading, after which he was
prepared to give up teaching for ever!
In 1970 he moved to Germany with his German wife and young
daughter, first to Hanover, where he became a teacher of English,
then to Stuttgart, where he worked as an editor in the Modern
Languages department of a large German publishing house before
becoming a freelance translator and teacher in 1977.
Since then he has written several English textbooks and readers,
mostly published in Germany. He teaches English at all levels,
including University (where he does a weekly seminar on Business
English "just for fun"). His leisure interests and hobbies include
reading, writing, restoring classic cars and trying to win the
weekly quiz at the local "Irish Pub".