Studies in eastern and western Slavic Studies and recent German literature in Hamburg, St. Petersburg and Warsaw.
Member of scientific staff and PhD at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the university of Hamburg, doctoral thesis about the current Russian-German bilingualism.
Studienrätin, afterwards Oberstudienrätin im Hochschuldienst at the Seminar for Slavic Studies/Lotman-Institute at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Conceptual design of the project UnVergessen (www.un-vergessen.de; in German)
Awards: Landeslehrpreis of North Rhine-Westphalia
Since 2022: Professor of Slavic Studies
Key activities: Slavic plurilingualism and its change through different generations und life; language and aging; language and dementia, narrativity
