• 	Personal details
  	Born on 22 October 1967 in Marsberg (Hochsauerlandkreis). Married, two children
  	Education and scientific career
  10/1988 to 9/1994	Master's degree with Slavic Studies as the main subject and Southern Slavic Studies and Public Law as minor subjects at the Universities of Würzburg, Leipzig and Bonn Stay abroad: Odessa (then Soviet Union) 5 months
  23.2.2000	Doctorate (Dr.phil.) at the University of Oldenburg on the topic "Inflectional morphological change in Polish. A naturalness-theoretical investigation on a general Slavic background" (published 2000; 408 p.)
  	Stay abroad: Krakow (Poland) 10 months
  4.6.2010	Habilitation at the University of Oldenburg on the topic "Der Instrumental des Ortes und der Zeit in den slavischen Sprachen: Case marking and prepositional coding of local and temporal relations in Russian, Polish and Serbian / Croatian" (published 2014; 587 pp.). Teaching qualification in the subject "Slavic Philology (Linguistics)"
  October 2020	Appointment as adjunct professor at School III of the University of Oldenburg Academic appointment
  1/1995 until 9/2009	Research assistant at the Chair of Slavic Linguistics at the Universities of Oldenburg (until 6/2002), Greifswald (4/2002 to 3/2008) and Regensburg (4/2008 to 9/2009) Teaching mainly in linguistics, linguistic history and cultural history (of all Slavic languages)
  10/2009 to 2/2014	Research assistant in the DFG project "Inflectional morphological irregularity(ies) in "current" contact varieties of North Slavic languages" at the University of Oldenburg (book publication together with Gerd Hentschel 2017)
  3/2014 to 3/2016	Teaching at the Universities of Vienna and Bochum, Deputy Chair of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Freiburg (already 10/2011 to 3/2012, then 10/2014 to 3/2016)
  since 4/2016	Research assistant at the Sorbian Institute / Serbski institut in Bautzen; continued teaching at the University of Oldenburg and temporarily at the TU Dresden

• 2001/02 together with Prof. Dr Gerd Hentschel - compilation of the dictionary of German loanwords in the Cieszyn dialect of Polish (Federal Government Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs; Robert Bosch Foundation)
• 2008/09 together with Prof. Dr Gerd Hentschel - "Inflectional morphological irregularity(ies) in "current" contact varieties of North Slavic languages" (DFG)

University of Oldenburg

• SS 1995 Old Russian (introductory seminar, two hours)
• WS 95/96 Morphology of the Russian verb (introductory seminar, two hours)
• SS 1996 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar, two hours)
• WS 97/98 Introduction to Slavic Linguistics (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Phonetics and Phonology (introductory seminar, two hours)
• WS 98/99 Old Church Slavonic "Old Russian": Reading course (exercise, together with Prof. Dr G. Hentschel; two hours)
• Old Church Slavonic "Old Russian" (introductory seminar, together with Prof. Dr G. Hentschel; two hours)
• SS 1999 The language of Novgorod in the Middle Ages (introductory seminar, two hours)
• WS 99/00 Syntax: Structures of the simple sentence (introductory seminar, two hours)
• SS 2000 Word semantics (introductory seminar, two hours)
• WS 00/01 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar, two hours)
• SS 2001 Historical texts of the East Slavic-Polish border region (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Series of lectures: Belarus and Ukraine between East and West in the past and present (together with Prof. Dr G. Hentschel; one hour)
• WS 01/02 On the didactics of Russian: Case and preposition in textbooks on Russian as a foreign language (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Series of lectures: Belarus and Ukraine between East and West in the past and present (together with Prof. Dr G. Hentschel; one hour)
• SS 2002 Introduction to the dialectology of Eastern Slavic (introductory seminar, two hours, as a block seminar)
• SS 2005 Language contact between German and Slavic: German language islands in the Slavic language area and Slavic language islands in the German language area (introductory seminar, two hours; as a block seminar)
• WS 09/10 Language contacts between Slavic languages and with Slavic languages (Master's seminar, two hours)
• SS 2010 Morphology of the Slavic languages (exercise, two hours)
• 2WS 10/11 Morphological Change (B.A. seminar, two hours)
• SS 2011 Morphology and Syntax (lecture, two hours)
• Morphosyntax (Masters seminar, two hours)
• SS 2012 Inflectional morphology of the Slavic languages (Master's seminar, two hours)

University of Greifswald

• WS 02/03 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar / exercise; two hours)
• SS 2003 Old Russian (introductory seminar; two hours)
• WS 03/04 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar / exercise; two hours)
• SS 2004 Grammatical change in Slavic: Zur Sprachwandeltheorie anhand von Phänomenen diachronen Wandels im Russischen, Polnischen und Serbokroatischen (introductory seminar; two hours)
• WS 04/05 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar / exercise; two hours)
  Serbian / Croatian language course (four hours; teaching assignment)
• SS 2005 German-Slavic language contact (introductory seminar; two hours)
  Serbian / Croatian language course (four hours; teaching assignment)
• University WS 05/06 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar / exercise; two hours)
• Diachronic Morphology of Slavic Languages (lecture Magister and B.A.; two hours)
• SS 2006 Introduction to Sociolinguistics for Slavicists (lecture Magister and B.A.; two hours)
• Linguistics excursion to Wrocław University from 6.6. to 14.6.2006 (together with Dr H. Walter)
• Linguistics day excursion to Berlin on 1 July 2006: Slavic traces in the Berlin area
• WS 06/07 Old Church Slavonic (introductory seminar / exercise; two hours)
• SS 2007 Old Russian chronicles as monuments of language history (exercise; two hours)
• WS 07/08 Introduction to West Slavic Linguistics (exercise; two hours)

University of Regensburg

• SS 2008 Introduction to Sociolinguistics for Slavists (exercise; two hours)
• Reading of Old Polish texts (exercise; two hours)
• Language change (exercise accompanying the lecture; two hours)
• Language and cultural contact between Poles and Eastern Slavs (introductory seminar; two hours)
• Language contacts between Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (introductory seminar / advanced seminar; two hours)
• Introduction to Old Polish (introductory seminar; two hours)
• WS 08/09 Introduction to Linguistics (Part I) (lecture, one hour)
• Introduction to Linguistics (Part II: Russian) (tutorial, two hours)
• Introduction to Linguistics (Part II: Polish) (tutorial, two hours)
• Introduction to Linguistics (Part II: Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian) (tutorial, two hours)
• Functional syntax of the Slavic languages (accompanying lecture) (tutorial, two hours)
• Phonetics and phonology of Russian (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Medieval texts of the Novgorod region (tutorial, two hours)
• Dialectology of Polish (introductory seminar, two hours)
• SS 2009 Introduction to Sociolinguistics for Slavists (exercise, two hours)
• Lexicography in / on the Slavic languages (exercise, two hours)
• Language Change Theory (using the example of Russian, Polish and Czech) (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Grammatical categories of the noun in Polish and Russian (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Slavic minor languages (introductory seminar, two hours)
• Linguistic contact between German and East and West Slavic (introductory seminar, two hours)

University of Freiburg

• WS 11/12 Culture of the Slavs I (lecture, two hours)
• Language Change Theory with Special Consideration of Natural Morphology (seminar, two hours)
• Grammatical categories of nouns (using the example of the East Slavic languages) (seminar, two hours)
• Sociolinguistics of West and South Slavic (seminar, two hours)
• Medieval texts of the Novgorod region (exercise, one hour)