Valeska
Réon: "I never wanted to lead a balanced life!"
Born
in Liège (Belgium), she lived with her aunt in Dusseldorf and New York
– it showed early that her life should run turbulent.
What
is reflected in her professional training, too. In the 'city that never
sleeps' she trained as a make-up artist at the 'Empire School for
Makeup Artists'. In between, she worked as a model, "a glamorous, but
in the long run also undemanding and superficial industry, especially
if you want to be creative," as she knows today. That's why I had a
further education in face-prosthetics” (epithetics, editor’s note).
Laughingly she reports further: "And because I had spare time, I wrote
a beauty guide ". The book, published at Ullstein, became a surprise
hit and went one week after the launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair into
a second edition. There was a hardcover edition at Weltbild publishing
house and a Slovak translation Ikar-publishers Bratislava. " And
because I felt so well in my role as an ‘agony aunt’, I wrote two more
books in the interval of one year. Incidentally, all published under a
pseudonym”, she giggles, but reveals no further details. “I never
wanted to lead a balanced life!", she sets straight, and so it is not
surprising, that she did not rest on her laurels, but set herself a new
target. As her Belgian compatriot, Agatha Christie's famous detective
Hercule Poirot, Valeska Réon is a sucker for finding missing things.
Valeska Réons Lebensmotto: Trau Dich!
This preference in combination with her makeup artists skills inspired
her five years ago to found a private detective agency. She visited the
'AFP Akademie für Privatdetektive' in Zurich and the 'API Academy of
Private Investigations' in London. ‘Réon Investigations’ with more than
twenty employees is headquartered in Antwerp with branch offices in
London and Vienna. „The shrillest job I ever had“, she laughs, "above all you come to know so many different people." And so that it’s not getting boring, she is working as a
lecturer additionally. Her favorite topic? "The new 40plus-women", she
answers quick as a shot, "nowadays they are so wonderful acerb, mature
and unruly!" If you look at Valeska Réon you know, that age limits and
pigeonholing are foreign concepts for her. Interview: Elena von Wallenstein
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