Curriculum Vitae

 

Since 2018
Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne for Personnel, Equality and Diversity

Since 2017
Co-editor of the (online) yearbook(s) of the Society for Child and Youth Literature Research | GKJF

Since 2014
Co-editor of the series Children and Youth Culture, Literature and Media. Theory - History - Didactics (Peter Lang Verlag)

Since 2013
Co-editor of the series of publications of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature Volkach (Schneider Hohengehren)

Since 2013
Vice President of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature Volkach

Since 2011
University Professor (W3) for Modern German Literature and its Didactics (focus on Children's and Youth Literature Studies) at the Institute for German Language and Literature II at the University of Cologne and Head of the Centre for Children's and Youth Media Research (ALEKI)

2005–2011
Academic counsellor at the Institute for Youth Book Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

2002–2004
Pedagogical assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature II of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cologne

2001–2003
With Gisela Wilkending Chairwoman of the Society for Children's and Youth Literature Research

1996–2004
Lectureships in the field of children's and youth literature and Jewish literature, among others at the Institute for Youth Book Research of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M., at the University of Oldenburg, at the University College in Dublin, at the Institute for German Language and Literature II of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Cologne

1994
Doctorate at the RWTH Aachen with a Germanistic thesis on the German-language ghetto narratives of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

1987–2000
Research assistant, e.g. at the Archive 'Bibliographia Judaica', Frankfurt a.M., at the Exile Archive of the German National Library, at the Institute for Youth Book Research of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M., at the Ludwig Strauss Chair for Jewish Literature at the German Faculty of the RWZH Aachen, at the Research Centre for Child and Youth Media (ALEKI) at the University of Cologne

1985–1987
Scholarship holder of the Josef Buchmann Foundation (Frankfurt a.M.), 1986 doctoral studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

1984
Magister Artium (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.)

1978–1983
Studied German, French (French Philology) and History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. and at the Université François Rabelais in Tours.

1956
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany