Prof. i.R. Dr. Juliane Köster
Senior Researcher
Prof. Dr. Juliane Köster was professor for German Language and Literature Education (L1) at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany from 2001 to 2012.
Anna Seeber
Anna Seeber worked as a researcher for the OVID-PRAX project (2017–2020). In her PhD project, which is closely related to the OVID-PRAX project, Anna Seeber explores the facets of professional competence of German L1 teacher students conducting their teaching practicum. Since February 2021, Anna is a trainee teacher at the Wenigenjena [link] comprehensive school where she teaches German and Economics.
Felix Zühlsdorf
Felix Zühlsdorf was a research assistant in the ProfJL project from 2015 to 2018, coordinating the sub-project on the networking of subject-specific science and subject-specific didactics in teacher training. (Website) He then worked on digital teaching and learning in university didactics. From 2019 to 2022, he was a cultural education officer and deputy head of department at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Since June 2022, he has been teaching at the University of Havana, Cuba, as a DAAD lecturer and is responsible for German-Cuban academic exchange. At the same time, Felix Zühlsdorf is working on his dissertation on the beliefs of student teachers on subject didactics and subject science in university German teacher training.
Dr. Frederike Schmidt
Christiane Kirmse
Christiane Kirmse taught and did research mainly in the field of literature didactics from 2015 to 2023 in Jena. From 2020 to 2023, she worked on the DiLe project, developing training elements for students and their mentors in school as part of an interdisciplinary team. She is particularly interested in the role of one’s own perspective in literary understanding. This is the focus of her dissertation project, which examines text comprehension processes based on interviews with pupils, who read short prose with narrative-regulated distribution of information.
Since the winter term 2023/24, she is working at the PH Heidelberg in Didactics of literature.