Annika
Leichtweiss is from Hamburg, Germany. She moved to Los Angeles in October 2000
to take English classes and work on her thesis for university in Germany about
selected aspects of Hollywood’s history. Her major, Cultural Studies, covered
such subjects as cultural theory, anthropology, field research, cultural
history, cross-cultural processes, psychology, literature and film and media
studies. Her minors were English and Art History. She then started the
Certificate Program “Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts” at UCLA
Extension, where she graduated in June 2004. Since June 2006, she has been a US
Permanent Resident.