By Eben van Tonder, 25 May 2025
About this Series: In Conversation with Christa Berger
This series is published under Origins Global Meats, a section within EarthwormExpress dedicated to our consultancy company. We specialise in mass-market, gourmet, and meat-hybrid formulations. Our services span new factory design, production line set-up, profit optimisation, brand communication, and research and development.
It is in the final two areas of brand communication and R&D that our work connects directly with Korrekturdienst, the company led by Christa Berger. Based in Austria, Korrekturdienst offers crystal-clear, academically and culturally precise German-language services, delivered with absolute confidentiality and the highest level of accuracy and personal attention. It is the definitive standard for error-free, context-aware academic and professional communication in German. Nothing vague. Nothing missed. Nothing less than exact.
This series provides insight and clarity into matters related to the academic and scientific-based writing and the use of AI in writing and R&D.
Introduction
There are few people I trust instinctively when it comes to words. Christa Berger is one of them. She owns Korrekturdienst, her language and editing company for German-speaking audiences, one of the sharpest, clearest, most exacting firms I have ever encountered. But it is not just the technical brilliance that makes her work remarkable. It is her ability to hold meaning. She does not just correct errors. She listens to tone, hears subtext, and protects the soul of the message.
Christa is Styrian by birth, having grown up in the Wechsel mountains. This makes her Styrian in spirit as well, sharp-witted, warm-hearted, and full of insight. She holds a degree in radiologic technology, which means she received formal training in muscle structure, tissue, and blood. These insights became invaluable when we began working together on the science of meat curing. But more than that, she brings ancient memory and soul to her modern knowledge base and understanding of communication.
Should AI Handle Our Communication
I once asked Christa a question many are asking in this AI age. If a client has to communicate something important, such as a brand message or dissertation, should they write it in English and let AI handle the German? Her answer came without hesitation. No. Absolutely not.
She explained what I have experienced myself in the field of food science. AI makes subtle but crucial mistakes. It often misreads the essence of a thought, then mistranslates it entirely. By the time I am done correcting the AI-generated version, she said, I could have just written it properly myself, and it would have been right from the start.
Her view resonates powerfully with what I see every day. AI is brilliant, yes. I use it constantly. But left to itself, especially in specialised areas like meat processing or original research, it has never once produced a result I could trust and publish without major revision. The technology is useful, but only when handled by someone who knows what not to trust.
In this series, we will speak openly about precision, trust, the ethics of editing, and what it takes to speak rightly in a world full of noise. If you are producing communication material for a German-speaking audience, whether for business, branding, or academic publishing, I invite you to reach out to Christa directly at office@korrekturdienst.at.
Your words deserve to be safe. Your message deserves to be right.
Index to Series
The Architecture of Clarity and the Limits of AI