[3] As was normal in East Germany at this time, on leaving school she was required to spend a year in industry - in her case employed in the brown coal industry in Lusatia[4] - before progressing to a year's internship at Junge Welt, the daily newspaper that had become the official publication of the FDJ - which was in effect the youth wing of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED).
[4] On completing her studies she returned to Junge Welt in Berlin, appointed a full-time member of the editorial team in 1965.
[4] From the mid-1980s Jutta Resch-Treuwerth was also running her own advisory service covering marriage and family matters at her base in Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin.
[6][7] After the changes which turned out to be a prelude to reunification in 1990, Resch-Treuwerth left Junge Welt in 1992 and launched herself as a freelance counsellor, working for various media outlets.
Finally, in March 2013, she returned to Junge Welt as a regular columnist, her contributions appearing under the headline "Unter vier Augen".