Dr. Anja Richter
Freie Universität Berlin
International Summer and Winter University
(FUBiS)
Dr. Anja Richter studied Modern German Literature, History of Art, and Film and Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and received her M.A. After that, she studied German as a Foreign Language at the Universität Potsdam. She worked at a language school in New York, the Goethe-Institut and taught at various language schools in Berlin. 2010 She obtained her doctorate with a thesis on religious and philosophical aspects in German literature after 1945.
Since 2011, Anja has taught at the Freie Universität Berlin European Studies Program (FU-BEST) and has been a faculty member of the Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS) since 2012. Additionally, she also teaches a course on academic writing in German ("Wissenschaftliches Schreiben auf Deutsch") for FUB-ContinuEd, the Freie Universität Berlin Continuing Education Program.
Anja Richter’s research focus is the literature of the 20th and 21st century from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Current FUBiS courses:
- Flucht und Exil. Migrationsbewegungen in der Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (FUBiS Term III 2024)
- 2012 – present
Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS) - 2011 – present
Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin European Studies Program (FU-BEST) - 2011
Lecturer at Goethe Institut - 2010
Doctorate - 1999 – 2010
Lecturer of German as Foreign Language at various language schools in Berlin - 1999
University graduation in German as Foreign Language, Universität Potsdam - 1998
Assistant at the language school Language Enterprise, New York - 1997
M.A. in Modern German Literature, History of Art, and Film and Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- „Das Studium der Stille“ – Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur im Spannungsfeld von Gnostizismus, Philosophie und Mystik: Heinrich Böll, Botho Strauß, Peter Handke, Ralf Rothmann, „Berliner Beiträge zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte“, 231 pages, Peter Lang Verlag 2010.