[3] Krausen was born in 1949 in Aachen North Rhine-Westphalia, to a mixed Protestant and Catholic family.
[4] She worked with a team of Muslim scholars on a translation and commentary of the Koran into German from 1984 to 1988.
[2] Krausen was one of the founding members of the Inter-Religious Dialogue Center at the Department of Theology at Hamburg University, formed in 1985. in 1993, Krausen worked with the Initiative for Islamic Studies to develop Islamic curricula.
In her role as imam, Krausen provided pastoral counseling and taught seminars about the Koran.
Conscious of the concerns of the community and Islamic modesty regulations, Krausen wrote Friday sermons but did not lead mixed-gender prayers or act as the khatib.