Curriculum vitae

• Born in Braunschweig, attended school in Stade, Lower Saxony
• married, 3 children (*2012, *2014, *2019)
• 2007-2013 Studied Protestant Theology and German as a secondary school teacher at Humboldt University, Berlin
• 2008-2012 Worked as a student assistant with Dietrich Benner, Heinz-Elmar Tenorth and Marcelo Caruso
• 2013-2015 Trainee teacher at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony
• 2015/ 2016 Honorary position at the specialised school for curative education in Neuerkerode, Lower Saxony
• 2016-2018 Teaching assistant at the Volkmarode integrated comprehensive school, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
• Since 2018 Research assistant at the Chair of Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
• 2022 Substitute at the Cäcilienschule grammar school, Oldenburg
• 2024 Substitute at the Graf-Anton-Günther-Schule grammar school, Oldenburg

Activities and memberships

• Advising textbook publishers with regard to anti-Semitism and racism-critical representations in religious books
• Speaker at training courses critical of anti-Semitism and training courses on religious sensitivity in educational institutions
• Member of the editorial board of the magazine "Religion 5-10" published by Friedrich-Verlag.
• Member of the network for religious education and theology critical of anti-Semitism and racism (narrt)
• Member of the steering committee of the Zertifikat Antisemitismuskritische Bildung in Niedersachsen im Kontext Schule (ZABIN), https://uol.de/zabin

Publications

• Encountering Jewish traditions in narrative texts. Reflections on an antisemitism-critical reflection on interreligious learning with children's and youth literature in Christian religious education. In: Kathrin Gies, Jana Hock, Lena Janneck (eds.): Against anti-Semitism! Bamberg Theological Studies Volume 46. Bamberg 2025, pp. 139-172 (available as open access at https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/publication/cf69eca2-c12a-4c71-afc8-5299661abf88 ) .
• Handout for educational professionals, teachers and volunteers in children's worship work on the storybook Good News. Stories of Jesus told fairly for children (together with Nina Kölsch-Bunzen, Katharina von Kellenbach, 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. Thinking about Jewish-Christian textbooks. Anti-Semitism-critical perspectives on religious education media. Weinheim 2025, pp. 7-13 (together with Joachim Willems).(available as OpenAccess at https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/56566-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken.html )
• "But it says so in the Bible!" - Fundamentals of an anti-Semitism-critical
  approach to biblical texts of the Second Testament in educational media. In: Joachim Willems | Ariane Dihle (eds.): Inventur. Thinking about Jewish-Christian textbooks. Anti-Semitism-critical perspectives on religious education media. Weinheim 2025, pp. 171-185 (together with Juliane Ta Van). (available as OpenAccess at https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/56566-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken.html )
  
• "But it says so in the Bible!" - Concretisations of an antisemitism-critical
  work with Bible texts in educational media. In: Joachim Willems | Ariane Dihle (Eds.): Inventur. Considering textbooks from a Jewish-Christian perspective. Anti-Semitism-critical perspectives on religious education media. Weinheim 2025, pp. 186-213 (together with Juliane Ta Van). (available as OpenAccess 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 Challenge. In: epd-Dokumentation 17/2025. p. 22-25 (together with Naciye Kamcili-Yildiz)
• Good news: Stories of Jesus told fairly for children. Together with Nina Kölsch-Bunzen and Katharina von Kellenbach, Ariane Dihle, who works in religious education, has written a collection of stories about Jesus for children of primary school age and upwards that is critical of anti-Judaism and sensitive to Jewish-Christian issues. The storybook was published by Ariella-Verlag in February 2025 (review of the book can be found athttps://www.katholisch.de/artikel/59997-buch-gute-nachricht-geschichten-ueber-jesus-ohne-antijuedische-toene > , radio report on this https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-gute-nachricht-fair-erzaehlt-ein-anderer-blick-fuer-kinderaugen-100.html ,also https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-juedisches-leben/audio-gute-nachricht-fair-erzaehlt-100.html)
• Discovering lived Judaism with fictional children's characters in a Protestant religion book? Ambivalent relationships in the "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 (together with Juliane Ta Van).
• Who Represents 'Judaism' in Christian Religious Education? Reflections on the didactic reduction and design of teaching materials. In: Journal for Religion, Society and Politics (together with Joachim Willems), available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s41682-024-00181-8 .
• The corrective function of educational media. Outline of a sensitisation for the anti-Semitism-critical use of educational media for religious education. In: Protestant Theology. 54. vol. 3/2024, pp. 190-201.
• In search of an antisemitism-critical thematisation of Sunday and Shabbat. In: Inventory. Thinking about Jewish-Christian textbooks. epd-Dokumentation 15/2024, p. 27-33, available at https://www.eaberlin.de/akademie/archiv/dokumentationen/2024-15-epd-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken/
• The representation of Judaism in textbooks and other teaching materials. A catalogue of questions critical of anti-Semitism to improve representations. In: Inventory. Considering textbooks from a Jewish-Christian perspective. epd-Dokumentation 15/2024, pp. 46-54 (together with Dominik Gautier, Kristina Herbst, Nina Schmidt, Christian Staffa, Juliane Ta Van), available at https://www.eaberlin.de/akademie/archiv/dokumentationen/2024-15-epd-inventur-schulbuecher-juedisch-christlich-bedenken/
• Anti-Judaic images of the present. In: Christian Anti-Semitism: Causes - Insights - Consequences (Conference of the Protestant Academy Tutzing, 23-25 October 2023). epd-Dokumentation 10-11/24, pp. 23-29, available at: https://www.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/24-10-11_Antisemitismus.pdf
• Textbooks as an enduring challenge for religious education and theology critical of anti-Semitism. In: Christliche Signatur des zeitgenössischen Antisemitismus (symposium and public panel event at the Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin, 27-29 June 2022). epd-Dokumentation 37/2023, pp. 39-49, (available online at https://www.eaberlin.de/akademie/archiv/dokumentationen/2023-37-epd-christliche-signatur-des-zeitgenoessischen-antisemitismus/2023-37-epd-christliche-signatur-des-zeitgenoessischen-antisemitismus.pdf ).
• Distorted images. Anti-Jewish depictions can also be found in current religious books. In: zeitzeichen 4/2023, p. 18-20 (available online at https://zeitzeichen.net/node/10347 ).
• The representation of Judaism in school books and other teaching materials. A catalogue of questions critical of anti-Semitism to improve representations, available online at https://narrt.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Fallstricke.pdf (together with Dominik Gautier, Kristina Herbst, Nina Schmidt, Christian Staffa, Juliane Ta Van )
• Textbooks as a place of reproduction of anti-Jewish narratives. In: Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kirche und Rechtsextremismus (BAG K+R) / Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e. V (ed.): Störung hat Vorrang. Christian criticism of anti-Semitism as religious education practice, pp. 47-62, available at https://narrt.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Broschuere_Stoerung_hat_Vorrang_final.pdf
• Bringing the Bible into dialogue in religious education. Challenges for teacher training programmes in Protestant theology in Germany. In: Forum Exegese und Hochschuldidaktik: Verstehen von Anfang an. 7/2022, pp. 27-52 (with Michaela Veit-Engelmann)
• Criticism of anti-Semitism as a didactic task in higher education - Institute of Theology and Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg. In: Lower Saxony 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, 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. )
• Die Pfefferkörner "Stolpersteine" (2022) - Eine Solidarische Kritik (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 antisemitism in primary school - through religious education. Göttingen 2020, pp. 243-260 (with Joachim Willems)

Teaching materials

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

• Abandoned by best friends. An examination of the disciples' behaviour in the Garden of Gethsemane. In: Religion 5-10, 58/2025, p. 31-38.
• Jesus' last words on the cross. Which evangelist is right in his account? In: Religion 5-10, 58/2025, pp. 39-47.
• The Way of the Cross. Come on a search for clues! Method booklet. Working material for Religion 5-10, booklet 58/2025 (together 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, p. 26-34
• abbruch? umbruch? aufbruch! jesus the jew in christianity. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge zur Religionspädagogik 171. 1/2024, p. 34-39.
• Which figures belong in the nativity scene? Reflecting on nativity scenes critical of racism and anti-Semitism. In: Religion 5-10. no. 54/2024, pp. 7-10 (together with Sabine Hübner).
• What skin tones does God have? The image of God and criticism of racism in the context of fake news. In: Religion 5-10. no. 54/2024, pp. 16-19 (together with Nico Noltemeyer).
• Can you love your enemies? On the topicality of the Sermon on the Mount. In: Religion 5-10. no. 53/2024, p. 16-19 with (Joachim Willems)
• Cross and Easter. A Christian festival of hope. In: Ethics & Teaching 4/2023, p. 17-23
• Are we a role model as a class? Challenges in religious education. In: Religion 5-10. no. 50/2023, p. 32-33 (with Annike Reiß).
• What is a role model? Learning about and scrutinising values with local, global and fictional role models. In: Religion 5-10. no. 50/2023, pp. 7-10 (with Nico Noltemeyer) .
• Myriam Halberstam's "A Horse to Channukka" - A teaching unit for primary schools, available at https://narrt.de/myriam-halberstams-ein-pferd-zu-channukka-eine-unterrichtseinheit-fuer-die-grundschule/
• Worksheets on the topic of "Multiple identities" for secondary levels I and II, available at https://narrt.de/__trashed-7/
• Is it okay to eat animals? A dilemma? In: Religion 5-10. no. 47/2022, p. 28-31.
• In the footsteps of Mary. Getting to know the biblical figure of Mary with a story. In: Religion 5-10. no. 46/2022, p. 12-15 (with Rebecca Hedenkamp).
• I know that differently! Discovering translations 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 the example of Shabbat. In: Magazin für Religionspädagogik 1/2021, p. 2. (with Hana Hlásková/ Anastassija Kononowa/ Alica Saathoff/ Ursula Sieg/ 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 differentiated teaching sequence on theologising for pupils in Year 9/10. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge zur Religionspädagogik 160/161 (2020), pp. 47-84. (with Jaqueline Jüling/ Sören Koselitz/ Christian Wetz)
• Kazuo Ishiguro: "Everything we had to give". An interdisciplinary approach. In: Loccumer Pelikan 2/ 2020. p. 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" - The trap of comparing the Bible and the Bible in religious education. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge 158-3/2019. p. 43-57 (with Friederike Schulze-Marmeling)
• The top 5 for live. In: Braunschweiger Beiträge 157-2/ 2019. p. 53-60. (with Friederike Schulze-Marmeling)
• Where do the colourful eggs at Easter come from? Discovering the Christian Lent. In: Religion 5-10. 25/2017. p. 17-19.
• Vesakh - Buddha's party. A playful approach to the Buddhist festival of Vesakh. In: Religion 5-10. 22/2016. p. 24-27.
• Klappentext und Co. Getting to know different formats for summaries. In: German 5-10. 38/ 2013. p. 4-7. (with Petra Anders)

Interviews, reviews and other texts

• Read - See - Click (on topics of Christian ethics). In: Ethik & Unterricht 4/2023, p. 64f. (together with Dominik Gautier) .
• Interview with Joachim Willems on anti-Semitic narratives in religious books, available at https://uol.de/aktuelles/artikel/wenn-schulbuecher-antisemitische-narrative-transportieren-8545 .
• Antisemitism in school textbooks. Interview together 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: Final report GEI (January 2023). Representations of Jewish history, culture and religion in textbooks in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute. In: Contributions to Religious Education. 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: Generation Lobpreis und die Zukunft der Kirche. The book on the empirica youth study 2018. in: Religion 5-10. no. 46/2022.
• Ideas for a change of location. In: Magazine for Religious Education 1/2022, available at https://www.arp-ol.de/fileadmin/arp/magazin/Magazin_fuer_Religionspaedagogik_01-2022_Ortswechsel.pdf .
• Material tips: Films and teaching material on the topic of "Death and Resurrection". In: Braunschweiger Beiträge 156-1/2019.