She studied journalism at the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover before completing a traineeship at RTL and working at NTV and Al Jazeera. She lived in Cape Town for a time as a freelancer for a travel magazine. Over the past 11 years, Wendt has enjoyed a number of backpacking trips to various places in the world and Africa in particular. She will be spending the next one and a half years exploring West and Central Africa and blogging about her experiences.