Published Work

Petra's experience as a credited journalist has expanded across Conde Nast, The Collective and Qantas Magazine.

Journalism Portfolio

Looming Large: Just Loomis…

Global Roaming: Neighbourhood favourites

Qantas Travel Insider A booming boho scene, Prussian prowess and communist influences have all collided to create the fusion of avant...

Global Roaming: Moorish Málaga

Venice Art Biennale 2011 Highlights

The 54th International Art Exhibition features the works of 83 individual artists from around the world, as well as 89 country pavilions....

Rising to the challenge: 21st-century games of wit and endurance

Rising to the challenge: 21st-century games of wit and endurance By PETRA ZLATEVSKA This article was taken from the February 2013...

Dual Families: Serving Two Masters

A new law is expected to let a generation of foreigners born in Germany after 1990 become dual citizens… but what does it really change?...

Berlin’s Newest Co-Working Spot, Mindspace, Comes Of Age

Behind the scenes at Berlin’s newest co-working space. On first blush, it seems like a quintessential co-working space: there’s lots of...

How Packaging-Free Supermarket Are Changing The Way We Shop

''Bring your glass jars and paper bags. The idea of “waste not, want not” has been drummed into us since we were children. We were taught...

Up in the Air: Feature in blue wings magazine on the new wave of Social Entrepreneurs

Happy 2015! 2014 was a fulfilling, inspiring and unpredictable year for me in many ways: re-connecting with colleagues and editors,...

Innovating For A Good Cause

They are visionaries, but also realists. They offer cutting-edge answers to urgent social, health and humanitarian problems. They exist...

Better Urban Living – Blue Wings April Column

In his 2007 book ‘Affluenza’, British Psychologist and Author Oliver James claims that our contagious, socially transmitted condition of...

Better Urban Living – Blue Wings April Column

In his 2007 book ‘Affluenza’, British Psychologist and Author Oliver James claims that our contagious, socially transmitted condition of...

My guest post on the formidable yesandyes blog: Why You Should Take A Career Sabbatical

A few months ago, I got in touch with the lovely Sarah, editor and founder of one of my favourite blogs yesandyes. After a bit of email...

Bold New Clicks – Blue Wings March Column

There are now some 400 million entrepreneurs starting and running new businesses, according to a recent survey by the world’s largest...

Happy International Women’s Day

I had originally wanted to publish this post on International Women’s Day but since that date, I had some new inspirations which I found...

Health Buzz: Is our genetic map our destiny?

If we are to believe popular science, we are who we are because of our genes. Our appearance, our character traits, susceptibility to...

Global Roaming in Wolfsburg

The 14th century Knights who founded this little blink-and-you’ll-miss-it-place could not have imagined that in 2011 their little burg...

Keeping in Touch

As brick-like cellphones, Sony Walkmans and Casio Synthesisers of the 1980s are all but relegated to the gadget graveyard, Gen-Y...

Social Media, Social Networking and Social Capital AFG Venture Group

The Hunt for Red October: Moscow Beyond its Minks and Millionaires

From the outside, it’s nothing special. Concrete-wash grey, imposing and a little sore on the eye but with a stunning vista out to the...

Running in Heels La Prairie Boutique Spa at The Ritz Carlton Berlin

Running in Heels Age Angst - Happy Now

Running in Heels Frida Kahlo Retrospective

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