Dr. Anja Richter
Academic Writing in German
Dr. Anja Richter studied Modern German literature, History of Art, as well as Film and Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and received her M.A. there. After that, she studied German as a Foreign Language at the University of Potsdam. She worked at a language school in New York, the Goethe Institute and taught at various language schools in Berlin. In 2010, she received her PhD for a thesis on religious and philosophical aspects in German literature after 1945.
Anja Richter has been a lecturer in German literature at the International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS) at Freie Universität since 2012. One of her courses is called "Flucht und Exil. Migrationsbewegungen in der Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts" ("Flight and Exile. Migration Movements in the Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries").
Her research focus is German literature of the Romantic period and German literature of the 20th and 21st centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective.