About Me

Trainer with an academic background
in linguistics and speech science

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Personal Profile

Work Experience

Communication Skills Trainer & Coach

since 03/2004
Director of my own company

Professor

10/2018 – 03/2019
Interim professor for speech science and
phonetics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Business Network

ExpertExecutive Frankfurt – Senior Executive Coach
Mitteldeutscher Verband für Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung – president
DGSS, GAL, IPA – member

Academic Background

PhD (Dr. phil.) in Linguistics

09/2003 – 02/2007
Doctorate at the Chair of English Linguistics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thesis: “Prosody and Gestures in Passages of Reported Speech”

Master of Arts

09/1995 – 06/2002
Magister Artium (M.A.) in English linguistics / Romance studies (French) / phonetics and speech science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
MA thesis: “Glottalisierung und Elision von[t] im modernen Englisch”

Studies Abroad

09/1998 – 01/1999
Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, Amiens (France)
02/1999 – 06/1999
University of Wales at Bangor (UK)

TO READ

Publications

2018. We see us later. An Englisch führt kein Weg vorbei. In: Jeder kann wirken. Von Executives lernen: auftreten, antworten, reden.
2018. We see us later. An Englisch führt kein Weg vorbei. In: Jeder kann wirken. Von Executives lernen: auftreten, antworten, reden.
2013. Basics of Phonetics and English Phonology.
2013. Basics of Phonetics and English Phonology.
2007. Prosody and Gestures as Contextualisation Devices in Reported Speech