Networks and working groups

Working Group Humanities and Digital Games (AKGWDS)
MaWi - Netzwerk gegen Machtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft (MaWi)
Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor)
Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV)
Didaktisches Zentrum in Oldenburg (DiZ)
Symposion Deutschdidaktik (SDD)

Research interests

Research focus and areas of work

Literature and media didactics

• Inclusive and diversity-sensitive literature teaching in the digital age
• Seriality and media network didactics
• Didactic teaching of literature and media through games
• Mobile gaming in German lessons, game mechanics and game aesthetics
• Human-machine discourses in expanded heterogeneous literature lessons and universal design for learning (e.g. literature lessons with telepresence robots)
• Multimodality, dispersed media, participation
• Object-orientated literature teaching, genre didactics (especially ballad didactics)
• Qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical research in German didactics

Publications

In publication

Ludonarrative economics - Participatory and interdisciplinary media education using the example of dark patterns and digital nudging. In Ackermann, N. et al. (eds.), Ökonomiedidaktik und Deutschdidaktik im Dialog (peer review) i. E.

Teaching literature with telepresence robots - a teaching model for literary and social participation of chronically ill and long-term sick pupils in secondary levels I and II. In MiDU (peer review) i. E.

Ninja Theory: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on KinderundJugendmedien.de, review: Computerspiele (submitted).

Anthropomorphising, romanticising, politicising - Beastars as a queer fable, on KinderundJugendmedien.de, review: Comics, Mangas, Graphic Novels (submitted).

Coma. In S. Jakobi, S. & Kurwinkel, T. (eds.), Lexikon Motive der Kinder- und Jugendmedien. Metzler (submitted)

Literary Disability Games Studies - The representation of mental disability in games using the example of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. In H.-J. Jürgens & M. Berning (eds.), Inclusion or Prejudice. Literary Disability Studies in Individual Interpretation (submitted).

2025

Literary learning with AI in the literature classroom using the example of the water motif in Heimsuchung. In F. Hesse & G. Helm (eds.), Künstliche Intelligenz im Deutschunterricht jenseits der Textproduktion (SLLD-U-Themenheft), 1-18 (peer review). Literary learning with AI in the literature classroom (full text)

Meet the Editor. Step by step towards publication. Report on the digital short workshop of the SDD qualification network. With T. Jeschke. Meet the Editor (full text)

Dark patterns in the mobile game 'Die Sims FreiSpiel' as part of the 'Sims' media network. In Brandenburg, A. et al. (eds.), Paidia -Zeitschrift für Computerspielforschung - Sonderausgabe Sims. Dark Patterns in the mobile game The Sims Free Game (full text)

Mobile games in German lessons - literary learning and media participation through the reflection of pay-to-win game mechanics. In Kölner Online Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung (k:ON) 9(9), 2025, 189-206 (peer review). Mobile games in the German classroom (full text)

Clustering. In S. J. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (eds.), Dictionaries of Language and Communication Studies (WSK) Online. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. clustering (full text)

Mysterious Pirsifbeere received. Literary and intercultural learning with myths in video games - The Momotarō adaptation in Pokémon Crimson and Purple in the context of comparative fairy tale didactics. In LiU - Literature in the classroom. Texts of contemporary literature for schools 1/2025, 31-42.

2024

Inclusive literature lessons with ballads. A design-based research study on the conception and empirical reconstruction of ballad culture didactics for lower secondary level (DiLiKuS 7). WVT 2024 (doctoral thesis). Inclusive literature lessons with ballads (full text)

"Nis. Kugel." On the importance of aesthetic formal language in cooperative learning processes in a dispersed media literature classroom. In Kölner Online Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung (k:ON) special issue 4, 2024, 54-75 (peer review). Nis. Kugel. On the importance of aesthetic formal language (full text)

Design-Based Research and Inclusion - the DiaMantEn model for didactic development research of inclusive teaching arrangements in German lessons. In Educational Design Research (EDeR) 8(2), 2024, 1-20 (peer review). DBR and inclusion - DiaMantEn model (full text)

Bittersweet, sour, salty. Stimulating literary learning in diversity-sensitive literature lessons - using the example of Wie der Wahnsinn mir die Welt erklärt (2020). In Kölner Online Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung (k:ON) 8(8), 2024, 197-215 (peer review). Bittersweet, sour, salty (full text)

Inclusive art education. Open Educational Resources building block for teacher professionalisation (training concept) in the field of text-image relationships. Project Fachdidaktik.inklusiv.digital, University of Bremen, 2024 (peer review).

Report of the qualification network. In SDD member newsletter 79, 2024, 31-32.

2023

Pro(mpt)cess reflection. Cooperative reflection on image-generative presentation decisions. In Kunst+Unterricht (KU+U) 475/476, 2023, 30-35.

"Every grain that falls, a moment that passes, but remains" - Poetry Slam at Hildegardis-Gymnasium. Yearbook article (school year 2022/23) of the Hildegardis-Gymnasium Bochum. 2023.

Comic research at Hildegardis-Gymnasium. Yearbook contribution (school year 2022/23) of the Hildegardis-Gymnasium Bochum. 2023.

2022

Analysing ballads through media transformation - conception and testing of a model for inclusive literature lessons in lower secondary school. In W. Dannecker & K. Schindler (eds.), Diversity-orientated German didactics. Theoretical-conceptual foundation and perspectives for empirical work (SLLD-B 4), 2022, 149-150. Ballad analysis through medial transformation (full text)

2021

"It's like everything shifts in a moment." Figure analysis in upper secondary level - using the example of the runaway motif in The End of the F***ing World. In S. Bernhard (ed.), 'Ausreißen' in der aktuellen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Analyses and didactic perspectives (Children's and youth literature. Themes - Aesthetics - Didactics 1). Schneider Hohengehren, 2021, 400-424.

The face as bricolage - the before-and-after self-staging of young beauty bloggers from a difference-sensitive perspective. In N. Lüth (ed.), School, Body, Social Media. Reflecting differences from an art education perspective. kopaed, 2021, 87-95.

Medial ballad transformation - theoretical-conceptual foundation and empirical reconstruction at the interface of inclusive literature and media didactics. In Medien im Deutschunterricht (MiDU) 3(1), 2021, 1-19 (peer review). Medial ballad transformation (full text)

Short report on the SDD panel incl. graphic recording: Literary understanding in the context of inclusion and digitalisation. Virtual SDD conference Hildesheim (16.09.2020, 10.00-13.00) organised by W. Dannecker and N. Kónya-Jobs. In SDD Members' Newsletter 69, 2021, 6.

2020

When Duck Meets Epic - Structural Myth Theory and Comic Theory in the Comic The Hunt for the Gold Mill by Don Rosa. In M. Engels, U. Preußer & F. Giesa (eds.), Comics in the classroom. Theory and teaching practice. Bachmann 2020, 281-310.

Lectures

2025

⁵"Aesthetic spaces of possibility: Transformative explorations of space and images as a performative approach to reading accuracy in German as a second language lessons - with an outlook on the focus on vision." IDT - International conference of German teachers. Lübeck, 28.07.-01.08.2025 (lecture on 31.07.2025 with Prof.in Dr.in L. Grimm).

⁴"Artistic Research in German Didactics" Children's and Youth Literature: Research & Didactics. University of Oldenburg, 02.04.-03.04.2025 (lecture on 03.04.2025 with H. Trapp).

³"Coma as a subject of mortality in children's and youth literature - a comparative study of selected whole texts." transmortale XIV - New research on dying, death and mourning, Kassel, Museum for Sepulchral Culture in co-operation with the University of Cologne and the University of Bielefeld, 21-22 March 2025 (22 March 2025).

²"Die Fluchfabrik - Rollenspielelemente in diversitätssensiblen Lernarchitekturen" Didaktik des TTRPG / Das ludonarrative Rollenspiel im Deutschunterricht Workshop und Vernetzungstreffen. ALEKI, University of Cologne. Organised by M. Conrad (Cologne) and J. Meier (Bielefeld), 24/25 February 2025 (24.02.2025)

¹"Cooperative culture of analysis - media transformation as an individual approach and didactic resource in inclusive literature teaching." IFO 2025 - 38th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers. Inclusion - Education - Transformation. Inclusive education as transformation - transformation through inclusive education. University of Cologne, 17-19 February 2025 (18 February 2025).

2023

⁵"Ethical and ideological debate and critical-reflective handling of AI." Pedagogical day (Bochum grammar school), 16/10/2023.

⁴"'Nis. Sphere.' The importance of aesthetic formal language in cooperative learning processes in inclusive literature lessons." Designing literature lessons in a differentiated, digital & cooperative way. Interdisciplinary conference, University of Cologne, Schloss Wahn, 1 September 2023

"Basic positions of an inclusive didactics of ballad culture." Research colloquium, University of Heidelberg, 27/06/2023.

² "Culture of digital sharing and cooperation - Open Educational Resources." Barcamp session for trainee teachers, Centre for Teacher Training (ZfsL) Bochum, 30.03.2023.

¹#Diclusion - Spaces of possibility for digitality and inclusion." Barcamp session for trainee teachers, Centre for Teacher Education (ZfsL) Bochum, 30.03.2023.

2022

¹"Ballad analysis through medial transformation - conception and testing of a model for inclusive literature lessons at secondary level I." Symposion Deutschdidaktik Vienna, 18.09.-22.09.2023 (19.09.2022).

2021

³ "Between cotton wool and rage time. Designing rhetorical constructions of time in secondary level I in an interdisciplinary and meaningful way - using the example of Als mein Bruder ein Wal wurde." Philosophical questions in the mirror of children's and youth literature: literature and philosophy didactic perspectives" (Symposium of the Oldenburg Research Centre for Children's and Youth Literature), 22-24 November 2021 (23 November 2021) (with E. Möller).

²"Mural as a digital tool in the 1st phase of teacher training." Day of digital teacher training, University of Duisburg-Essen, 26/02/2021.

¹"Ballad analysis through medial transformation. Ballad didactics in secondary school I." Presentation of the doctoral project and its interim results at the a.r.t.e.s. winter retreat, University of Cologne, 17/02/2021

2018

¹ "Ballad analysis through medial transformation. Ballad didactics in secondary school I." Opening conference of the new DFG-funded German didactic open access format SLLD, Ruhr University Bochum, 15 May - 8 June 2020 (15 May 2020).

2017

Love. Power. Play. Juli Zeh's play instinct." Inventions of love, sensations of love. Semantics of love between continuity and change - from the Baroque to the present, international and interdisciplinary conference organised by the Institute of German Studies and History at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Nachwuchspanel), 21-22 September 2017 (22 September 2017).

2016

¹"When Duck Meets Epic - Structural Myth Theory and Comic Theory in the Comic The Hunt for the Gold Mill by Don Rosa." International conference of the Society for Comics Research: Comics in Schools University of Duisburg-Essen (Nachwuchspanel, 16.11.-19.11.2016 (16.11.2016).

Workshops

"Dice, pens, imagination: Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs) as a diversity-sensitive teaching method." 2nd Day of Oldenburg Teacher Training (TOLL) - The future is created in MITEINANDER - participative. appreciative. effective, 01.10.2025.
TOLL programme: https://uol.de/diz/toll/toll-2025/programm (Workshop D3)

"Talk(ad)venture: Exploring the Playful University - Innovative Learning Architectures at Universities and Colleges" Rheinische Friedrichs Wilhelms University Bonn, 05.09.2025. GAME Week programme: https: //www.fiw.uni-bonn.de/gamelab/de/game-week-bonn

"Designing reading villages - learning to read with learning architectures in inclusive and open lessons." State conference German NordWest Secure Basis (grades 1 and 2). University of Vechta, 18.09.2025.

"Learning Architectures - The Playful University" University of Bonn, Game Week. Rheinische Friedrichs Wilhelms University Bonn, 04.09.2025.

ArbeiterKind.de

Working Group Humanities and Digital Games (AKGWDS)

Communities of Practice NRW for innovative teacher training (ComeIn project)

German Association of Germanists (DGV)

Society for Comic Research (ComFor)

Trade Union for Education and Science (GEW)

Network against abuse of power in science (MaWi)

Symposion Deutschdidaktik, qualification network, permanent organisational member (SDD QualiNet)

German didactics symposium, including: Diversity-orientated German didactics working group (AG DiDe) and media working group

TTRPG network (Tabletop role play games/gaming)