(I'm copying this mostly from an interview I gave Dave Walden some years ago (http://tug.org/interviews/fischer.html): I was born 1961 in Stuttgart in Germany as the oldest of three children. As child I moved with my parents first to Geneva in Switzerland (my father worked for IBM at this time) and later to Bonn in Germany. There I finished school and then studied mathematics at the University of Bonn until I got my “Diplom” (don't ask me how you say this in English).
With my husband I then moved to Siegburg (a town about 20 km away from Bonn) where we lived about 20 years. Since nearly th…