My main interest is in the field of language history and multilingualism but also in neighbouring fields and disciplines like (historic) sociolinguistics, script linguistics, minority and heritage language studies, language contact, language and religion and language and identity. My future research is shifting the focus from writing language histories to the theory of writing and teaching language histories of multilingual regions.

• 2025-2026 Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham
• Since 2023 Research assistant at the Institute for Frisian Studies and Minority Research at the European University of Flensburg (on leave at the moment)
• 2019-2024 Doctoral student at the Europa-Universität Flensburg funded by a scholarship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein
• 2020 Three-month research stay in archives and at Leiden University, Netherlands, funded by a DAAD scholarship
• 2016-2019 "Culture-Language-Media" at the Europa-Universität Flensburg (Master of Arts)
  • 2018 Three-month internship at the German Department of the University of Bristol, UK
• 2009-2015 German language and literature and Catholic theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br. (First State Examination)
  • 2012 Practical semester at St. Kilian's German School Dublin, Ireland
• 2009 Abitur at the St. Ursula Gymnasium Hanover

Chapters in Books and Journals

• (under review): ‚die wite engel bouen d dör‘ – Abgrenzungsprobleme bei Sprachanalysen Friedrichstädter Briefe des 17. Jahrhunderts. In: Ihden, Sarah, Schröder, Ingrid und Tsapaeva, Sabina (Eds): Domänen historischer Stadtsprache: offiziell – öffentlich – privat. 37. Jahrestagung des Internationalen Arbeitskreises für Historische Stadtsprachenforschung, 4.–6. Oktober 2022 in Hamburg. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

• 2025: Language shifts in the domain of religion: Approaching a multi-layered process in Friedrichstadt. Sociolinguistica.

• 2022: Politisierung von Sprachen ohne Sprachenpolitik? Zum ‚Sprachenstreit‘ von Friedrichstadt 1774. In: Havinga, Anna und Lindner, Bettina (Ed): Deutscher Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert: Sprachmentalität, Sprachwirklichkeit, Sprachreichtum. Heidelberg: Winter.

Editions

• 2024: Reisebericht von Johannes Peters 1764 und Reisebericht von Jan Jacob van Vollenhoven 1843. In: Mitteilungsblätter der Gesellschaft für Friedrichstädter Stadtgeschichte. Vol. 98 [99].

Reviews

• 2024: Aneta Pavlenko (Ed) (2023). Multilingualism and History. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.

• 2021: Andreas Krogull (2018). Policy versus practice: Language variation and change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.

• 2021: Simon Pickl & Stephan Elspaß (Ed) (2019). Historische Soziolinguistik der Stadtsprachen. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft.

• 2019: Richard J. Whitt (Ed) (2018). Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change. Modern Language Review.

• 2018 with Nils Langer: Weinreich, Ulla (Ed) (2018). Wir sprechen gerne Deutsch. Modern Language Review.

2021-2025: Teaching BA German Studies, Europa-Universität Flensburg

• Language History of German (17th/18th century)
• Sociolinguistics
• Textlinguistics
• Scriptlinguistics

2020-2025: Teaching MA "Culture-Language-Media", Europa-Universität Flensburg

• Language contact
• Language and Identity
• Regional Multilingual Language History (17th-20th century)

2020: Lecturer at the InterTeach-programme at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Module "Pedagogical Fields of Action"

2017-2022: Lecturer for German as a Foreign Language at the ProRef-programme and/or at the Centre for Foreign Languages at the Europa-Universität Flensburg

• ​​​​​​2020: Aufstockungsstipendium auf die Landesgraduiertenförderung [= step-up grant for people with a grant by a federal state] DAAD (3 months)
• 2019-2023: PhD-grant by the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein
• 2018: erasmus+ (3 months)