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Curriculum vitae

• since October 2019
  Professorship for "Social Work Science - Theories and Methods of Social Work" with a focus on community work at the HTWK Leipzig
• 09 / 2017 - 08 / 2019
  Substitute professorship for the subject area "Socio-spatial foundations of social work" at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (focus of work: Community work and social space, youth work, theories of social work, ethics in social work)
• June 2018 Doctorate Dr phil.
  Dissertation on the topic: Public sphere from below? - Demokratie, Öffentlichkeit und Politische Bildung - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Selbstorganisation Sozialer Bewegungen am Beispiel einer (kommunalen) antirassistischen Initiative, at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, with Prof. Dr. Helga Cremer-Schäfer (first reviewer), Prof. Dr. habil. Michael May (second reviewer), Prof, Dr habil. Heinz Sünker (third reviewer)
• 2011 - 2012
  Director of the Protestant Centre for Rural Areas at Kohren-Sahlis Adult Education Centre
• 2008 - 2011
  Master's programme in Social Work - Evangelische Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit Dresden (FH),
  Degree: Social Work Master of Arts (M.A.)
• 2001 - 2010
  Employee of the mobile counselling team for the administrative district of Leipzig at Kulturbüro Sachsen e.V., community-oriented counselling for politics, civil society and social work as well as educational work on the development of democracy and social understanding and participation processes
• 1996 - 2001
  Social worker at Evangelische Jugend Leipzig, responsible for coordination, specialist counselling and development of social work projects
• 1991 - 1995
  Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Work Dresden (FH),
  Diploma programme Degree: Diplom Sozialarbeiter / Sozialpädagoge (FH)
• 1986 - 1991
  Trained as a carpenter and worked in an institution for mentally disabled people

Research and work interests

• Democratic theory and social movements
• Community work and social movements
• Political and cultural education
• Disability education, disability studies, integration and inclusion
• Dealing with racism and right-wing extremism
• Youth work

Publications (selection)

Monograph:

• 2019: Public sphere from below? - Democracy, Public Sphere and Political Education - Possibilities and Limits of Self-Organisation of Social Movements.

Specialist articles in anthologies and journals (selection):

• 2020: Social work as a work on the creation of contexts. In: AGJF (ed.): Even if everyone else is against it. Potentials of youth work for democracy education and the confrontation with racism. Chemnitz, pp. 51-55.
• 2019: Disability. Coping requirements and social work. In: Grendel, Tanja (ed.): Studienbuch Sozialisation und Soziale Arbeit - Theorie, Empirie und Praxis. Wiesbaden, 169-179.
• 2017: Democracy and participation. A fictional dialogue about the meaning of democracy and participation in everyday life. In: Landesfilmdienst Sachsen e.V.: The Future is unwritten. Educating the future, making media. Leipzig, 27-40.
• 2016: Demokratie als Lebensform oder die Frage nach Handlungsfähigkeit als Potential einer Pädagogik des Sozialen. In: Widersprüche Heft 142: Pädagogik des Sozialen - ein Schritt zu Demokratie als Lebensform, 105-118.
• 2016: On contradictions in the definition of an understanding of popular sovereignty. In: The Argument 319, 707-716.
• 2016: On the contradictions (in) open work and social diaconal youth work in the GDR. In: Contradictions Issue 140: Politics of the Social and Religion - An Ambivalent Relationship, 99-109.
• 2016: Critical-political youth work in the confrontation with right-wing extremism. Foundation and perspective. In: Rita Braches-Chyrek / Heinz Sünker (eds.): Social work in social struggles and conflicts, 159-188.
• 2014: On the question of education and intellectual disability - The practical reflection of a media education project with theory-based impulses. In: Contradictions issue 133: Inclusion - the promise of the end of exclusion, 75-91.

Lectures (selection)

2018

• Democratic-theoretical aspects of public(s) and counter-public(s). Seminar: Narratives of the Social, Philosophy, Art and Politics, Inter-University Centre for Advanced Studies Dubrovnik

2017

• Dimensions of racism, symposium on pedagogy and racism, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst

2016

• Contradictions in Definitions of Popular Sovereignty, Seminar: Narratives of the Social, Philosophy, Art and Politics, Inter-University Centre for Advanced Studies Dubrovnik

Functions/Memberships

• Liaison lecturer, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
• Liaison Lecturer Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Member of the editorial board of the journal Widersprüche
• Member of the Society for Social Work (DGSA)
• Member of Landesfilmdienst Sachsen e.V.