Arbeitsbereich Ostslavische Sprachwissenschaft

Biography of education:

• 1977: Pedagogical College Potsdam, Faculty of Humanities
  Phil. Diss. (Russian linguistics) - summa cum laude
  
• 1970: Pedagogical College Potsdam, Faculty of Humanities
  Diploma teacher of Russian and English (Diplomlehrer)
• 1968/1969: Zhdanov State University, Rostov-on-Don, USSR
  Study of Russian language and literature
  
• 1966/67: Pedagogical College Potsdam, Study of Russian and English languages
• 1962 – 1966: Extended secondary comprehensive school with specialisation in Russian Language Wiesenburg, GDR
  

Current position
University of Potsdam, Department of East Slavonic studies, Assistant Professor

Key sector of activity:
Education (direct studies, further education, distance education with IT)

Fields of research:

• Textlinguistics and discourse analysis in regard of modern Russian
• Communication forms in the internet
  
• eLearning and eTeaching

• Analysis of Russian discourse and teaching its basics (RGPU "A.I. Herzen", St. Petersburg, Faculty of Philology, Russian Federation)
• Impression management in the virtual environment (RGPU "A.I. Herzen", St. Petersburg, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Russian Federation); see also the blog "Selfpresentation in Virtual Worlds"
• The use of virtual platforms for teaching and learning in elementary courses in Russian linguistics (University of Opole, Poland)
• Personal Learning Environments – Students using the ePortfolio PebblePad for the monitoring of their studies (Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Potsdam)

• Phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology and stylistics of modern Russian language
• Textlinguistics, theory and typology
  
• Discourse Analysis
  

Long term experience (42 years) in

• elementary and advanced training of teachers, bachelors and masters in the Arts and Humanities
• organizing research projects and managing research processes in the Arts and Humanities with German, Polish and Russian partners
• development and implementation of university programs, curricula and courses
• designing of teaching material

Experience (17 years) in

• strategic planning, development and implementation of IT applications, especially for pedagogic purposes in German, Russian and Iranian universities
• consultancy of school heads and teachers on implementation of IT applications