In
1991 she worked as an executive tour-guide of various
Indian groups during the Festival of India in Germany
and between 1990 and 1996 as a museums guide for
special exhibitions as well as for the permanent
collection of the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin. Further,
she was a free-lance project assistant in the Haus
der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures),
Berlin, where she worked for five years on different
projects in the field of dance and music. In 1995
she was the project manager of the cultural festival
Indien Verstehen (Understanding India), a one-month-event
with exhibitions, music, dance, cinema and lectures
on India in KITO, a cultural institute in Bremen,
Germany.
Since
2003 she is living and working as a writer in Goa
and is working on her first novel. Her publications
include Hindu-Frauen zwischen Tradition und Moderne:
Religiöse Veränderungen der indischen Mittelschicht
im städtischen Umfeld, Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag,
2002 and most recently, together with Sudhir Kakar,
Die Inder. Porträt einer Gesellschaft, München:
Beck Verlag, 2006.
Katharina
Poggendorf-Kakar is married to the writer and psychoanalyst
Sudhir Kakar.