Cairo Office
Lectors
Dr. Olaf Moritz
Since September 2007, Dr. Olaf Moritz is holding the position of a DAAD lecturer at Helwan University in Cairo. After having completed his studies of Germanistics and Arabistics at the University of Muenster, he was teaching as an assistant lecturer at the DAAD at King Saud University in Riad, Saudi Arabia, as from 1997 till 2000. Then, he worked as a director at Paderborn University in the department of German courses for foreign students and taught in Germanistic language sciences, the field which also was the framework for his doctorate. His scientific focal points are general and comparative German language sciences.
Contact: OlafMoritz@gmx.de
Dr. Patricia Bauer
..is a long-term lecturer at Cairo University's Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS) since September 2007. She is teaching topics of European Studies and International politics in the faculty's Master- und PhD-Programmes "European Mediterranean Studies". After having completed her studies of political sciences in Saarbruecken and Hamburg, Dr. Bauer was a teacher and researcher at the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg and the Universities of Hamburg, Marburg and Osnabrueck.
Her main focus is the eastward enlargement of the EU, its foreign relations as well as formations and ways of solving conflicts in international relations.
Contact: pakbauer@gmail.com
Anne Wildfeuer
..works as a DAAD-lector at the Faculty of Education at Ain Shams University since March 2008. She studied German as a Foreign Language, Sinology and Intercultural Business Communication at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena. She wrote her masters thesis in the field of didactics and methodology. Ms. Wildfeuer also worked as a language assistant at the Heluan – University. Her current teaching and research fields are the literature of the 18th and 19th century, didactics and cultural studies .
Contact: a_wildfeuer@hotmail.com
Dr.-Ing. des. Ralph Bodenstein
..is a DAAD lecturer and Visiting Professor for History of Islamic Architecture at the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, since March 2008. Simultaneously, he is a research fellow at the Cairo Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). He studied Islamic Studies, Urban Planning, and History of Oriental Art at Bonn University, specialized in Conservation Studies and Building Archaeology at Technical University (TU) Berlin, and received a Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture at TU Berlin. He worked for several years in field research projects on architecture and urban history at the German Orient Institute in Beirut, and wrote his doctoral thesis on domestic architecture and culture in 19th- and 20th century Beirut. His present research activities at the DAI in Cairo center on domestic architecture in Cairo from the 18th to the 19th century. More generally, his research interests are at the intersections of architecture, social and cultural history, and the interrelations between material space and lived space.
At the Islamic Department of the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University he teaches History of Architecture of the Ottoman Period and the 19th century.
Contact: r.bodenstein@gmx.net
Manar Omar
..is a DAAD-lecturer at the University of Minia and a lecturer for contemporary German literature at the University of Helwan. She has studied germanistics in Cairo, Gießen and Tübingen. She wrote a PhD-thesis, in which she analysed a selected number of literary works that appeared in the 1990ies and were written in German by authors of Arab descend. Beside translations und literary critics she also published a bibliography of the German translations of Arabic literary works written in the time between 1990 and 2004.
Contact: manarmomar11@yahoo.com
Since October 2009, Dr. Bärbel Raschke is working as a DAAD-Lector at the Ain Shams University of Cairo (Faculty of Education/Excellency Centre of DaF). She studied German studies at the Karl-Marx University of Leipzig, taught and did research at the universities of Leipzig, Bielefeld and Erfurt and was a DAAD-Lector at the universities of Paris 8 and Mohammed V. in Rabat. Her main research are historical Gender studies, cultural transfer, German and French manuscripts of the 18th century.
Contact: baerbel.raschke@web.de
Dr. des Martin Harfmann is holding the position of a DAAD-Lector at Al-Azhar University in Cairo since December 2009. He studied Applied Linguisitcs, Islamic Studies and Social and Economic History at the University of Hamburg. Between 2002 and 2008 he was a DAAD-Lector at the German Department at the University of Jordan and taught German as foreign language at the Wadi German Syrian University. In 2009 he completed his PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Hambug. His research interests are Comparative Linguistics, Pragmatics and Translation Studies.
Contact: M.Harfmann@gmx.de
