Margaryta Schneider studied German Philology and Pedagogy at the National Linguistic University of Kyiv (Ukraine). She obtained a master's degree in Slavic Studies and German Philology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) with a thesis on "Ethnic Germans in Ukraine: An Analysis of Identity Construction of Ukrainian Germans from a Sociological Perspective [Ethnische Deutsche in der Ukraine. Eine Untersuchung zur Identitätskonstruktion der Ukrainedeutschen aus soziologischer Perspektive]".
As of 2014, she teaches Ukrainian, German and Russian at various cantonal schools and technical colleges in Zurich. As of 2020, she also works as a language assistant for the intensive German courses at the Language Center of the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich. From 2020 to 2021 she was a Russian-language tutor at the Slavic Seminar of the University of Zurich. From 2021 to 2022 she worked as an assistant and as of 2022 as lecturer of Ukrainian at the Slavic Seminar of the University of Zurich.
In 2025, she obtained a teaching diploma for secondary schools at the University of Zurich for Russian and German, specializing on interdisciplinary teaching on the secondary level.
