About me & This Blog

For many years, my professional life has been centered around language, learning, and people. As a state-certified German instructor, I have worked with adult learners from diverse backgrounds, supporting them in developing their voices in a new language. Storytelling helps my learners find their voices in German.

Storytelling has always been more than just a teaching method for me, as it also helps mein language learning: Writing in English has become a personal creative space for me: a place for my own thoughts, reflection, imagination, growth and escape. On this blog, I share the stories I write, the books that move me, and my thoughts on them through reviews. It is a space where teaching, learning, reading, and writing quietly meet in the background—but where curiosity, creativity, and a love for language lead the way.

If you want to know more about me, read my stories and take a look at my academic background, professional journey, and the topics that matter most to me below.

I hope you enjoy reading here and feel inspired to start telling your own stories. Please always feel free to reach out to me if there is anything you like to comment or share with me.

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Resumé

Experiences:

  • currently freelancing German teacher

  • part time scientific assistant at the Institute of Intercultrual Communication of the University of Hildesheim

    Instructed courses:

    • Proseminar „Einführung in die Analyse sprachlichen Handelns: Text und Diskurs“ (BA)

    • Proseminar “Analysing spoken English” (BA)

    • Training session for the lecture „Institutionen, Text & Diskurs, Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturelle Kommunikation (MA)

    • Training session „Interkulturalität: Praxis und Reflexion“ (BA)

    • Training session „Methoden der Angewandten Sprachwissenschaft“ (BA)

    • Training session for the lecture „Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft“ (BA)

    • Seminar “Kommunikationsanalyse I: Grundlagen” (MA)

    • Seminar “Kommunikationsanalyse II: empirische Unterrichtsforschung” (MA)

  • assistant of the director of the Volkshochschule (VHS) Hildesheim

  • part time German teacher, including tutoring at Volkshochschule Hildesheim (VHS Hildesheim) for refugees as well as online

  • part time employee (responsible for project administration, teacher supervision, developing course concepts) at Volkshochschule Hildesheim (VHS Hildesheim) for a project preparing refugees theoretically and practically to obtain employment as a caregiver in a retirement home or hospital

  • Intercultural Teaching at the high school Jugend Christophorus Schule (CJD) in Elze, Germany

Education:

  • The University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    International Information Management - Language Science and Intercultural Communication
    Main focus: German as a foreign language
    Graduation Grade: Master of Arts

     

    International Communication and Translation
    Main focus: German, English and Spanish
    Graduation grade: Bachelor of Arts

    including Bachelor studies abroad at the University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
    Main focus: Translation

Publications:

2024

Rezension zu “Baierl, Ronny. 2021. Academic Research Skills. Akademische Forschungskompetenzen bilingual. München: UVK Verlag. 106 pages, ISBN 978-3-8252-5698-2”

2022

Vermittlung sprachlichen Handelns mit Literaturarbeit im DaF/DaZ Unterricht – Brechts „Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder“ aus Sicht der Funktionalen Pragmatik(peer-reviewed)

Qualifications:

  • TEOSL (Teacher of English to Speakters of Other Languages) Certification

  • Certificate for teaching assistance in a "Language Learning Project for fled children and teenagers" ("Sprachlernprojekt für geflüchtete Kinder und Jugendliche")

  • Certificate of Advanced English (CAE)

  • Certificate for Intercultural Communication from the University of Hildesheim, Germany

Languages:

German native speaker. Fluent in English (Cambridge C1 Certificate). Advanced Spanish (studying towards fluent skills). Basic French. Basic Russian (studying towards advanced skills)

Voluntary Social Commitment:

in Michigan, USA at the German classes in the High School and Middle School of Grand Ledge and Traverse City, at free time activities of the adult foster care Fairview, at the Museum of the Michigan State University (MSU) as a visitor guide and at the MSU German and Spanish Kids and Teen Camp

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