Who is who
The office team
You can ask us anything having to do with lessons, accommodation or certificates. Our team is waiting to help you.
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Uwe Stränger - DirectorHe is in the office daily from 14:00 to 17:00. He will be glad to help with questions regarding payment, residency permits, health insurance or work experience placements in Germany. |
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Janka Duske - Office ManagerIn the office Mondays and Tuesdays between 10:00 and 16:00, as well as Wednesdays and Fridays between 14:00 and 20:00. She is responsible for bookings, extensions of contracts, payments and school ID cards. She knows pretty much everything and various languages. |
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Felix Breitkreuz - Director of Studies for German as a Foreign Language and DaF ExaminationsDaily between 09:00 and 14:00 in the office. Every day between 09:00 and 10:00, and between 13:00 and 14:00, he is available to help with questions regarding contracts, courses, levelling and course placement, exams, tests, and certificates. |
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Gerda Schlimmgen - BookingsShe's in the office Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 - 16:00 and Wednesdays from 14:00 - 20:00. She will be happy to advise you about appropriate courses, bookings and extensions, and answer your questions about your lessons. |
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Cora Post - Accommodation Supervisor
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Tanja Nentwich - OfficeShe works in the school’s office and makes sure that everything is running smooth. Tanja loves to travel, rock out on her electric guitar and go snowboarding. |
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Rik Mayda - Project Manager, Media SpecialistRik doesn't only teach English at IH Berlin PROLOG, he is also the project manager and media specialist. Together with the PROLOG web master, he looks after the school’s internet presence, is the house photographer and knows his way around the Berliner club scene. |
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Sebastian Taylor - Fachsbereichsleiter-EnglischNot only does Sebastian teach English at companies, but he is also the head of PROLOG's English department, which means that he coordinates the individual courses and allocates teachers to them. Currently, he’s developing our English testing centre in cooperation with ESOL and Telc. |
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Anja Grüneberg - Teacher Training GermanAnja is our “cultural attaché“ and plans and organises the many social and cultural activities within the German department. In her “main job“ she is responsible for our internal teacher training and the external further education programme for teachers. Together with other trainers, she instructs at least two or the four annual IHC courses. |
The teachers
Would like to know about our teachers? This is where we introduce some of our teachers.
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Stephanie PortschStephanie is a German teacher at IH Berlin PROLOG. After having successfully completed her further education as a teacher for the public school system, she attended a long and difficult training as a German teacher trainer here at PROLOG. Besides teaching German, her time is filled with the twice yearly IHC training courses. |
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Nils SensAfter having been in Asia for three years, Nils is back in his home town, where he has actually only lived as a small child. Compared to Beijing, Berlin is a “totally normal city“. His four years in Shaolin and a knack for cultural differences has influenced this cosmopolitan teacher, who is writing a book about the emergence of language and thought in his spare time. |
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Claudia HoferClaudia has been working for IH Berlin PROLOG since 2004 in the German as a Foreign Language department. She takes care of the (new) teachers, creates teaching material for various courses. In her free time, Claudia loves to travel to foreign countries, but being at home is also fine, because she can relax on her roof-top garden with her friends and two cats. |
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Dieter HartmannDieter has taught German as a Foreign Language at our school. He is also a qualified training for the IHC training course. For some time now, he is also responsible for our training course “German as a Second Language“, which we are conducting on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior. In addition all of these duties, Dieter sometimes works as a state-certified translator for Italian. |
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Arndt BoetelArndt has lived in Berlin for 3½ years and is a German teacher at IH Berlin PROLOG. As a non-native Berlin, what fascinates him the most about Berlin is the language – he thinks that “Berlinish“ is the most beautiful of all the German dialects. |
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Jody WohmannJody has been teaching German as a Foreign Language for several years and has an extraordinary grasp of the all the material needed for this study. For this reason, she is Felix’s assistant director for the German department. For about two years she has been working as a coordinator for our umbrella organisation IHWO and advises all IH schools about German as a Foreign Language. |
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Derek CaryEveryone looks up to Derek, not only because he’s PROLOG’s tallest teacher. He is the ADOS of the English department, which includes coordinating courses and teachers’ schedules among other things. Besides speaking Russian, Turkish, Japanese and German, he believes that his studies of Soviet and Russian politics have provided him with unique and valuable insight to international affairs and effective management skills. |
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Karolina KuszykKarolina is one of IH Berlin PROLOG’s Polish teachers. She loves living and working in Berlin – and not just because it’s so close to Poland and her mother’s wonderful cooking! Karolina has inherited her mother’s love of cooking and also enjoys translating literary texts and the cosmopolitan energy of Berlin. |
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