born July 1953 in Muelheim an der Ruhr\/Germany<\/p>\n
studied sociology<\/strong> at Bielefeld University with focus on sociology of education<\/strong> and music<\/strong> at Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold; PhD in Sociology 1981;<\/p>\n worked as researcher between 1976 and 1984 in the field of sociology of education at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University and Konstanz University;<\/p>\n studied International Relations<\/strong> between 1984\/1985 at Institut Europ\u00e9en des Hautes \u00c9tudes Internationales (European Institute of Higher International Studies) in Nice\/France;<\/p>\n 1986\/87 trainee program at Goethe<\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>Institut<\/strong>. As of 1987 employed with Goethe-Institut with postings as director of Goethe-Institutes in Khartoum<\/strong>\/Sudan, Montreal<\/strong>\/Canada, Kabul<\/strong>\/Afghanistan, Beirut<\/strong>\/Lebanon and Bangkok<\/strong>\/Thailand. Between 2013 and 2019 regional director of the network of Goethe-Institutes in Sub<\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>Saharan Africa<\/strong> (15 Goethe-Institutes and 5 Goethe-Centers in 20 countries) based in Johannesburg\/South Africa;<\/p>\n between May 2019 and December 2020 director of Goethe-Institut Hamburg<\/strong>\/ Germany;<\/p>\n As of January 2021 until June 2021 director of Goethe-Institut Amman<\/strong>\/Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6634,"template":"","degree":[],"major":[],"people_category":[61],"class_list":["post-14875","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_category-international-artist-advisory-council"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n