Finnish citizen - born in Austria - creative all-rounder

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OH THE IRONY ...

Actually I represent the region of my origin - the Alps where three nations meet - quite well: Austrian birth place, Italian first name (with a "K", though) and Slovenian maiden name (Vidmar). In other words, multiple reasons why I had to learn spelling my name at a very early age... which of course I hated to do, because I had to do it EVERY TIME, as especially the last name gave room for many different (wrong) versions... That was one of the reasons why I kept my plain common "100% German language" surname after my marriage ended (it means "weaver", referring to the profession, in German speaking nations as common as Smith or Jones). However, now in Finland, once again I need to spell my pretty exotic name for this region... not so much for Sweden, though, therefore some people start addressing me in Swedish when they see or hear my name.... 

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EARLY SIGNS ...

According to my parents, I picked up drawing before I could walk... they got worried when the "walking" stage didn't start when it should have, so they took me to a doc. His diagnosis: "Nothing wrong with her, she's just lazy". Eventually I started walking soon afterwards, spontaneously, when I tried to catch birds in the park. An early sign that any kinds of sports - I'm not lazy, it's just not my thing.

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About age 4 I stunned my family by reading out loud the Austrian news channel logo: "Zeit im Bild". Nobody had pushed me to pick up reading, and of course I do not remember how I managed to do it myself; common theory: I didn't own many books as a kid, so I knew every single word by heart, plus I pestered people to spell out and write down words for me, e.g. my name, or "Shakespeare" (no idea where that came from). Still a book addict

... and still loving theater, which also started in pre-school age: I built my own puppet theater out of cardboard and my puppets out of cloth (bodies) and toilet paper rolls (heads), giving 100% improvised performances to my cousins. Many many years later I ended up working in theaters on and behind stages - and still love that, too.

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(Self) published author & cartoonist by age 8:  My first Science Fiction story, a Star Trek parody, hand-written in my homework ledger, was handed over to several class mates to read. About the same time I created a B/W pencil Sherlock Holmes spoof cartoon - unfortunately both originals got lost in the "publishing/circulation" process. Learning from this mistake, my next publishing endeavour involved producing copies, for which I was granted access to the school's transfer printer. By then I had taught myself how to use a typewriter and multi-colour matrix paper - still oblivious to the fact that professions like "journalism" or "editor / publisher" even existed. Still enjoying music journalism, as editor-in-chief of stalker-magazine.rocks.