Curriculum Vitae

• Born in Braunschweig; attended school in Stade, Lower Saxony
• Married, with three children (*2012, *2014, *2019)
• 2007–2013: Studied Protestant Theology and German to become a secondary school teacher at Humboldt University, Berlin
• 2008–2012: Worked as a student assistant to Dietrich Benner, Heinz-Elmar Tenorth and Marcelo Caruso
• 2013–2015: Teacher training at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony
• 2015/2016: Worked on a freelance basis at the Neuerkerode College of Remedial Education, Lower Saxony
• 2016–2018 Teacher at the Volkmarode Integrated Comprehensive School, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
• Since 2018: Research assistant at the chair of Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg
• 2022 Substitute teaching at the Cäcilienschule grammar school, Oldenburg
• 2024 Substitute teaching at the Graf-Anton-Günther-Schule grammar school, Oldenburg

Activities and memberships

• Advising schoolbook publishers on the inclusion of content in religious education textbooks that critically addresses anti-Semitism and racism
• Lecturer in training programmes on anti-Semitism and religious sensitivity in educational institutions
• Member of the editorial board of the journal “Religion 5-10” published by Friedrich-Verlag.
• Member of the Network for Anti-Semitism and Racism-Critical Religious Education and Theology (narrt)
• Member of the steering committee for the Certificate in Education Critical of Anti-Semitism in Lower Saxony in the School Context (ZABIN), https://uol.de/zabin

Publications

• Critique of anti-Semitism as a cross-cutting task in
  -based religious education – Exemplary perspectives across content-related areas of competence. In: Theologische Quartalszeitschrift 206/2026, pp. 256–272 (co-authored with Julia Hofmann)
  
• Encountering Jewish traditions in narrative texts. Reflections on an anti-Semitism-critical approach to interfaith learning through children’s and young adult literature in Christian religious education. In: Kathrin Gies, Jana Hock, Lena Janneck (eds.): Against Anti-Semitism! Bamberg Theological Studies, Vol. 46. Bamberg 2025, pp. 139–172 (available as open access at https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/publication/cf69eca2-c12a-4c71-afc8-5299661abf88 ).
• A guide for educational professionals, teachers and volunteers involved in children’s church work, based on the storybook *Gute Nachricht. Stories of Jesus for Children, Told Fairly* (in collaboration with Nina Kölsch-Bunzen, Katharina von Kellenbach and Naciye Kamcili-Yildiz), available at https://narrt.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Handreichung-Gute-Nachricht-fair-erz_hlt-13.10.25.pdf and at http://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/7289/
• Introduction. In: Joachim Willems | Ariane Dihle (eds.): Inventur. Re-examining Jewish-Christian school textbooks. Perspectives critical of anti-Semitism on educational media for religious education. Weinheim 2025, pp. 7–13 (co-authored with Joachim Willems). (Available as Open Access at https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/56566-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken.html )
• ‘But that’s what it says in the Bible!’ – Foundations for an anti-Semitism-critical
  approach to biblical texts from the New Testament in educational materials. In: Joachim Willems | Ariane Dihle (eds.): Inventur. Re-examining Jewish-Christian school textbooks. Perspectives critical of anti-Semitism on educational media for religious education. Weinheim 2025, pp. 171–185 (co-authored with Juliane Ta Van). (Available as Open Access at https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/56566-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken.html )
  
• ‘But that’s what it says in the Bible!’ – Practical examples of work with biblical texts in educational media that is critical of anti-Semitism
  . In: Joachim Willems | Ariane Dihle (eds.): Inventory. Re-examining Jewish-Christian school textbooks. Perspectives critical of anti-Semitism on educational media for religious education. Weinheim 2025, pp. 186–213 (co-authored with Juliane Ta Van). (Available as Open Access at https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/56566-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken.html )
  
• Images and stories of Ibrahim/Abraham – Shared religious traditions as an educational treasure and a challenge. In: epd Documentation 17/2025. pp. 22–25 (co-authored with Naciye Kamcili-Yildiz)
• Good News: Stories of Jesus for Children, Told Fairly. Together with Nina Kölsch-Bunzen and Katharina von Kellenbach, Ariane Dihle, a member of staff in religious education, has written a collection of stories about Jesus for children from primary school age onwards, which is critical of anti-Judaism and sensitive to Jewish-Christian perspectives. The storybook was published by Ariella-Verlag in February 2025 (reviews of it can be found, amongst others,https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/59997-buch-gute-nachricht-geschichten-ueber-jesus-ohne-antijuedische-toene >; a radio feature on it can be found at https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-gute-nachricht-fair-erzaehlt-ein-anderer-blick-fuer-kinderaugen-100.html , as well as https://www1.wdr.de/media-library/audio/wdr3/wdr3-juedisches-leben/audio-gute-nachricht-fair-erzaehlt-100.html)
• Discovering practising Judaism through fictional children’s characters in a Protestant religious education textbook? Ambivalent relationships in *Kursbuch elementar*. In: David Käbisch, Michael Wermke, Jan Woppowa (eds.): Ambivalent Relationships. Historical Narratives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Educational Media. Leipzig 2024, pp. 65–77 (co-authored with Juliane Ta Van).
• Who represents ‘Judaism’ in Christian religious education? Reflections on didactic simplification and the design of teaching materials. In: Journal of Religion, Society and Politics (co-authored with Joachim Willems), available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s41682-024-00181-8 .
• The corrective function of educational media. An outline for raising awareness of an anti-Semitism-critical approach to educational media for religious education. In: Evangelische Theologie. Vol. 54, No. 3/2024, pp. 190–201.
• In Search of an Anti-Semitism-Critical Approach to the Topics of Sunday and Shabbat. In: Inventur. A Jewish-Christian Reflection on School Textbooks. epd Documentation 15/2024, pp. 27–33, available at https://www.eaberlin.de/akademie/archive/dokumentationen/2024-15-epd-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken/
• The representation of Judaism in school textbooks and other teaching materials. A questionnaire addressing anti-Semitism to improve portrayals. In: Inventur. A Jewish-Christian reflection on school textbooks. epd Documentation 15/2024, pp. 46–54 (in collaboration with Dominik Gautier, Kristina Herbst, Nina Schmidt, Christian Staffa and Juliane Ta Van), available at https://www.eaberlin.de/akademie/archive/dokumentationen/2024-15-epd-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken/
• Contemporary Anti-Jewish Images. In: Christian Anti-Semitism: Causes – Insights – Consequences (Conference of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing, 23–25 October 2023). epd Documentation 10–11/24, pp. 23–29, available at: https://www.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/24-10-11_Antisemitismus.pdf
• School textbooks as an enduring challenge for religious education and theology critical of anti-Semitism. In: The Christian Character of Contemporary Anti-Semitism (Symposium and public panel discussion organised by the Evangelical Academy in Berlin, 27–29 June 2022). epd Documentation 37/2023, pp. 39–49, (available online at https://www.eaberlin.de/akademie/archive/dokumentationen/2023-37-epd-christliche-signatur-des-zeitgenoessischen-antisemitismus/2023-37-epd-christian-hallmarks-of-contemporary-anti-Semitism.pdf ).
• Distorted images. Anti-Jewish depictions can also be found in current religious education textbooks. In: zeitzeichen 4/2023, pp. 18–20 (available online at https://zeitzeichen.net/node/10347 ).
• The representation of Judaism in school textbooks and other teaching materials. A questionnaire critical of anti-Semitism aimed at improving these representations, available at https://narrt.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Fallstricke.pdf (in collaboration with Dominik Gautier, Kristina Herbst, Nina Schmidt, Christian Staffa, Juliane Ta Van)
• School textbooks as a venue for the reproduction of anti-Jewish narratives. In: Federal Working Group on the Church and Right-wing Extremism (BAG K+R) / Action Reconciliation Service for Peace e. V. (eds.): Disruption Takes Precedence. Christian Critique of Anti-Semitism as a Practice in Religious Education, pp. 47–62, available at https://narrt.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Broschuere_Stoerung_hat_Vorrang_final.pdf
• Bringing the Bible into discussion in religious education. Challenges for teacher training in Protestant theology in Germany. In: Forum Exegesis and University Didactics: Understanding from the very beginning. 7/2022, pp. 27–52 (with Michaela Veit-Engelmann)
• Critiquing anti-Semitism as a task in higher education didactics – Institute of Theology and Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg. In: Lower Saxony’s State Commissioner against Anti-Semitism and for the Protection of Jewish Life: Jewish Life in Lower Saxony – vibrant, valuable and enriching. Second Annual Report (2021). Hanover 2022, pp. 85–92, (with Carina Branković, Dominik Gautier, Rebecca Hedenkamp, Friederike Henjes, Joachim Willems), available at https://www.mj.niedersachsen.de/download/184811/LgA_Jahresbericht_2021.pdf. )
• The ‘Stolpersteine’ (2022) – A Critical Analysis from a Solidarity Perspective (with Rebecca Hedenkamp and Friederike Henjes), published on the narrt blog, available at https://narrt.de/die-pfefferkoerner-stolpersteine-2022-eine-solidarische-kritik/
• ‘Identity’ as a problem? Judaism in Protestant religious education. In: Reinhold Mokrosch/ Elisabeth Naurath/ Michèle Wenger (eds.): Preventing Anti-Semitism in Primary Schools – Through Religious Education. Göttingen 2020, pp. 243–260. (with Joachim Willems)

Teaching materials

• Who decides what makes sense? Learning to act democratically through a role-play. In: Religion 5–10, 62/2026, pp. 24–31.

• Anti-Judaism, even in my religious education book!? – Reflecting on religious education textbooks with pupils
  Modularised building blocks for a reflective engagement with educational media. A lesson plan for lower secondary level. In: Teaching Religion 1/2025, pp. 39–71, available at https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.13109/reun.2025.6.issue-1

• Abandoned by his closest friends. An examination of the disciples’ behaviour in the Garden of Gethsemane. In: Religion 5–10, 58/2025, pp. 31–38.

• Jesus’ last words on the cross. Which evangelist’s account is correct? In: Religion 5–10, 58/2025, pp. 39–47.

• The Way of the Cross. Come and join us on a journey of discovery! Methodology booklet. Teaching resources for Religion 5–10, issue 58/2025 (in collaboration with Annike Reiß).
• Good News. Stories of Jesus told fairly for children. Berlin 2025 (Nina Kölsch-Bunzen with Ariane Dihle and Katharina von Kellenbach in Jewish-Christian dialogue).
• “I have something to confess to you…” Getting to know confession as a church ritual for dealing with guilt. In: Religion 5–10. No. 55/2024, pp. 26–34
• Break? Upheaval? A new beginning! Jesus the Jew in Christianity. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge zur Religionspädagogik 171. 1/2024, pp. 34–39.
• Which figures belong in the nativity scene? Reflecting on nativity scenes from a critical perspective on racism and anti-Semitism. In: Religion 5–10. No. 54/2024, pp. 7–10 (co-authored with Sabine Hübner).
• What skin tones does God have? The image of God and a critique of racism in the context of fake news. In: Religion 5–10. No. 54/2024, pp. 16–19 (with Nico Noltemeyer).
• Can one love one’s enemies? On the relevance of the Sermon on the Mount today. In: Religion 5–10. No. 53/2024, pp. 16–19 (with Joachim Willems)
• The Cross and Easter. A Christian festival of hope. In: Ethik & Unterricht 4/2023, pp. 17–23
• Are we, as a class, role models? Challenges in religious education. In: Religion 5–10. No. 50/2023, pp. 32–33 (with Annike Reiß).
• What is a role model? Exploring and questioning values through local, global and fictional role models. In: Religion 5–10, No. 50/2023, pp. 7–10 (with Nico Noltemeyer).
• Myriam Halberstam’s *A Horse for Hanukkah* – A lesson plan for primary school, available at https://narrt.de/myriam-halberstams-ein-pferd-zu-channukka-eine-unterrichtseinheit-fuer-die-grundschule/
• Worksheets on the topic of ‘Multiple Identities’ for lower and upper secondary school, available at https://narrt.de/__trashed-7/
• Is it permissible to eat animals? A dilemma? In: Religion 5–10. No. 47/2022, pp. 28–31.
• In the footsteps of Mary. Getting to know the biblical figure of Mary through a reflective story. In: Religion 5–10. No. 46/2022, pp. 12–15 (with Rebecca Hedenkamp).
• ‘That’s not how I remember it!’ Discovering translations of the Gospel of Luke’s Christmas story. In: Religion 5–10. No. 44/2021, pp. 7–10. (with Imke Heidemann)
• Religious identity as one of many building blocks of identity. A lesson plan on the topic of identity, using Shabbat as an example. In: Journal of Religious Education 1/2021, p. 2. (with Hana Hlásková, Anastassija Kononowa, Alica Saathoff, Ursula Sieg and Adriana Stern) available at https://www.arp-ol.de/fileadmin/arp/magazin/Magazin_fuer_Religionspaedagogik_01-2021.pdf
• Doing the Right Thing – Why Don’t We Do It? A nuanced teaching sequence on theological reflection for pupils in Years 9 and 10. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge zur Religionspädagogik 160/161 (2020), pp. 47–84. (with Jaqueline Jüling, Sören Koselitz and Christian Wetz)
• Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘The Remains of the Day’. An interdisciplinary approach. In: Loccumer Pelikan 2/2020, pp. 59–63. (with Frauke Thees) Available at: https://www.rpi-loccum.de/material/pelikan/pel2_20/2-20_Dihle_Thees
• “God has sent down the most beautiful speech” – On the pitfall of comparing one Bible with another in religious education. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge 158-3/2019. pp. 43–57. (with Friederike Schulze-Marmeling)
• The top 5 for live. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge 157-2/2019. pp. 53–60. (with Friederike Schulze-Marmeling)
• Where do the colourful Easter eggs come from? Discovering the Christian Lenten season. In: Religion 5–10. 25/2017. pp. 17–19.
• Vesakh – Buddha’s Party. A playful approach to the Buddhist festival of Vesakh. In: Religion 5–10. 22/2016. pp. 24–27.
• Blurb and Co. Getting to know different formats for summaries. In: German 5–10. 38/2013. pp. 4–7. (with Petra Anders)

Interviews, reviews and other texts

• A Bible just for girls?, guest column “Sektion F” in the online magazine “Die Eule”, available at https://eulemagazin.de/eine-bibel-nur-fuer-maedchen-hagar-kinderbibel-gewalt/
• Podcast on the storybook “Good News – Stories of Jesus for Children, Told Fairly” with Nina Blahusch, Nina Kölsch-Bunzen and Katharina von Kellenbach in May 2026, available at: https://www.podcast.de/episode/703480351/nr41-gute-nachricht-geschichten-von-jesus-fuer-kinder-fair-erzaehlt
• Read – Watch – Click (on topics of Christian ethics). In: Ethik & Unterricht 4/2023, pp. 64ff. (in collaboration with Dominik Gautier).
• Interview with Joachim Willems on anti-Semitic narratives in religious education textbooks, available at https://uol.de/aktuelles/artikel/wenn-schulbuecher-antisemitische-narrative-transportieren-8545 .
• Anti-Semitism in school textbooks. Interview with Joachim Willems. In: Uni-Info 50, December 2023, p. 6, available at https://www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/uni-info/2023/5/uni-info-2023-05-es.pdf .
• Review: GEI final report (January 2023). Representations of Jewish history, culture and religion in school textbooks in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute. In: *Religionspädagogische Beiträge. Journal for Religion in Education* 46(2023)1, 113–115, available at https://rpb-journal.de/index.php/rpb/article/view/273/277.
• Review: Tobias Faix/Tobias Künkler: The ‘Praise Generation’ and the Future of the Church. The book accompanying the 2018 empirica Youth Study. In: Religion 5–10. No. 46/2022.
• Ideas for a Change of Location. In: Journal of Religious Education 1/2022, available at https://www.arp-ol.de/fileadmin/arp/magazin/Magazin_fuer_Religionspaedagogik_01-2022_Ortswechsel.pdf .
• Resource guide: Films and teaching materials on the topic of ‘Death and Resurrection’. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge 156-1/2019.