Annette Gotzkes (Principal´s Teaching Award)
Lecturer in German Studies, Head of German Studies
- German Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3670
- Email: agotzkes@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 3.32
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hours
Tuesday 11.30 - 12.30 (teaching weeks only)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Current
Year Abroad Coordinator for German
Course Organiser German 1A
Course Organiser Languages Beyond University
Past
2021 nomination for six EUSA Student Awards (Best Tutor of the Year, Best Support Staff, and Best Personal Tutor of the Year)
nomination for CAHSS Recognition Award
2018 nomination for EUSA Teaching Award: Best overall teacher
2017 nomination for EUSA Teaching Award: Best overall teacher
2015 student nomination for Best Teacher
2014 nomination for EUSA Teaching Awards
2012 Principal´s Teaching Award for project: German in the Workplace: Boosting
Employability and Language Skills
Education: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Sorbonne, Paris
l’Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Undergraduate teaching
Undergraduate teaching
- German as a foreign language: German to English translation and literary translation Précis writing (English texts into German)
- German essay writing
- Creative writing in German
- German grammar from Beginners to Final Year
- Supervision and examination of final year dissertations on a range of topics related to German Politics, Culture and History
Research summary
Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache: language acquisiton and didactics
Post-reunification literature with particular reference to Ingo Schulze (Simples Stories and Handy -Dreizehn Geschichten in Alter Manier
Comparative study of literary translations of utopian fiction (dissertation on early Swift translations)
Fin-de-siècle literature in Europe (Thomas Mann, Huysmanns, Wilde).
Etymology ( publication for the Anuario Galego de Filoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Knowledge exchange
Together with the Goethe Institute in Glasgow, the German Consulate and other German organisations in Scotland Annette coordinates and promotes cultural events from the German-speaking countries.
Project activity
Outreach and Widening Participation Projects
Outreach work with Primary and Secondary Schools in Edinburgh and Midlothian in close cooperation with :
- German Consulate General, Edinburgh
- Goethe Institute, Glasgow
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Scotland´s National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
- University Council of Modern Languages (UCML)
- Careers Service LLC, Edinburgh University
Employability and Language Skills (Principal´s Teaching Award 2013)
Ongoing project for 1B students who team up with native German speakers working in Edinburgh to give them the opportunity to enhance their spoken and written German in a natural, realistic context. As well as increasing their linguistic skills it enhances cultural awareness and boosts important graduate skill, sich as communication, flexibility, problem-solving and team work.
Some of our interview partners have participated for seven years . In some cases the interview project led to a work placement, providing the students with valuable work experience.