Category - Cultures

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What to do against racism
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The Holocaust taboo
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Photos in the Foreign Language Classroom
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Ghana past and present – a conversation with Helen Yitah
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New publications
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School shootings: an interview with Silke Braselmann
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Musical literacy in the foreign language classroom
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“I’ve got a story to tell.” Comics as a Competence Task

The Holocaust taboo

It is a sad truth that the world is full of stories and testimonies of Holocaust experiences. Many of them, like Judith Kerr’s novels, are survivor stories that bear witness to the possibility of standing up for the victims, of protecting those who were persecuted and of giving children a new family. The didactic finding, […]

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Ghana past and present – a conversation with Helen Yitah

When it comes to multilingualism, it is not a West African country like Ghana that comes to mind easily. This is no coincidence: Anglophone Africa is not really a focus of English studies and certainly not of English language pedagogy. While postcolonial literary and cultural studies have dealt intensively with the great representatives of Anglophone […]

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New publications

In December 2018, two issues of online journals were published co-edited by me, one special issue of the Journal for Intercultural Language Learning (in German) on the topic “Space and Foreign Language Learning” and a special issue of the cultural studies journal on_culture on Surveillance Cultures (in English). And in May 2019 a new volume […]

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School shootings: an interview with Silke Braselmann

Silke Braselmann’s great PhD thesis on school shootings in the United States titled Approaching the Inexplicable. The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse has won her the German renowned, very prominent prize of the Koerber Foundation 2018 for PhD theses. Dr. Wolfgang Schaeuble, President of the German Federal Parliament, was this year’s patron of […]

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