1978 - 1982 Katholische Grundschule Heilige Drei Könige, Garbeck (Catholic Primary School)
1982 - 1991 Walburgisgymnasium — Privates, Staatlich Anerkanntes Gymnasium für Mädchen und Jungen), Menden / Sauerland (private, state-certified Secondary School for Girls and Boys)
05/91 Abitur (final exams)
Community Service
08/91 - 10/92 Community service at a support-school for immigrants — Förderschulinternat Maximilian Kaller, Balve
University Education
10/92 - 03/97 Philosophy, German Literary Studies, Linguistics at
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
main subjects of study:
Classical Philosophers (esp. Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche)
Philosophy of Nature (esp. in the fields of: Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, Theoretical Physics, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Biology)
German Literature of the 19th and early 20th Centuries (works of Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Rainer-Maria Rilke)
Linguistics (esp. language of advertising, conversational analysis, narrative analysis)
Medieval Studies (Mittelhochdeutsch, Altsächsisch, Nibelungenlied, Gralsroman)
10/97 - 12/99 Philosophy, Modern German Literary Studies, Medieval German Literary Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
main subjects of study:
the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato (esp. the dialogues ‘Protagoras’, ‘Gorgias’, ‘Politeia’)
Goethe (esp. the drama ‘Faust’)
German Romanticism
Hermeneutics
German Literature of the 14th and 15th Centuries
Final examination and degree
01/00 - 5/00 Masters (Magister Artium) in Philosophy, Modern German Literary Studies and Medieval German Literary Studies
Masters Thesis (Magisterarbeit): ‘The Art of Truth. On the Relation between Reason and Intuition in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.’ (Die Kunst der Wahrheit. Zum Verhältnis von Vernunft und Intuition in den frühen Schriften Friedrich Nietzsches.)
07/00 Official permission granted to write a doctoral dissertation (Promotion) on Friedrich Nietzsche
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Gerhardt, Chair of Practical Philosophy / Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin
10/00 Doctoral research in Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Berlin (Humboldt University)
07/05 Promotion at the Humboldt University
Professional experience
10/96 - 02/97 Tutor at the Institute for Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Subjects: Introduction to scientific working methods, the main fields of philosophy and some classical thinkers, e.g. Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
03/97 - 07/97 Teacher of German as a foreign language, Eötvös Jòzsef Gymnasium Budapest (as well as: private teaching, conversational training and preparation for the state-certified German language exam)
04/01 - 04/02 Researcher for the Nietzsche Dictionary Project, Philosophy Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul van Tongeren), including participation in the Nietzsche Seminar.
05/02 - 12/02 Freelance Translator, Proof-reader and Editor for the Nietzsche Dictionary Project
05/03 - 08/03 Philosophy Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.
09/03 – 06/04 ‘Huygens’ scholarship for doctoral research & collaborative research on the Nietzsche Dictionary Project, Philosophy Dept., Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
07/04 - 07/05 Computational work on the manuscript of the Nietzsche Dictionary. Doctoral thesis on Nietzsche's virtue teaching of courage and defence of the dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
10/05 - 01/06 Class Teacher in a 6th-year class (subjects German and English), Teacher of Practical Philosophy (9th-year class) and German Literature (12th-year class) at the Friedensschule Hamm (comprehensive school).
02/06 - present Nietzsche Research Projects: Monograph (The Virtue of Courage), Dictionary (Nietzsche Dictionary Vol. 2) and Database (www.nietzsche-wortschatz.de). Since July 2006: IT support and services on a self-employed basis (www.demzib.com).
Research papers / presentations
10/01 ‘Augenblick und Augenblitz’: paper based on Dictionary article: ‘Augenblick’, given at the Nietzsche Werkstatt Schulpforta
02/04 ‘Lebe gefährlich und habe den Mut zu Dir selbst!’ Nietzsche´s Tugendlehre aus der Sicht seines existenziellen Imperativs’, given at research seminar ‘Nietzsche werkgroep’, K.U.Nijmegen
03/04 ‘The concept of courage in Nietzsche´s doctrine of virtues’: 2 lectures given on Prof. van Tongeren´s Ethics course, K.U.Nijmegen
05/08 ‘Digitale Nietzschetexte und Nietzsches Wortschatz.’ Contribution to the Greifswald conference "Neue Nietzsche-Philologie"
Publications
‘Augenblick/Moment’. In: Nietzsche-Wörterbuch. Vol. I. (W. de Gruyter, series „Supplementa Nietzscheana“, Berlin / New York, 2004) p.181-216.
Forthcoming in volumes II & III of the „Nietzsche-Wörterbuch“. The articles
‘Entwicklung/Darwinismus’
‘Europa/Europäer’
‘Fortschritt’
‘Gedächtnis/Erinnerung’
‘Genealogie’
‘Geschichte/Historie’
(In preparation: ‘Mut/Tapferkeit’; ‘Gefahr’; ‘Tugend’; ‘Wagnis’)
‘Die Tugend des Mutes. Nietzsches Lehre von der Tapferkeit.’ Würzburg 2007.
Stays abroad
02/13/97 - 08/25/97 Hungary (Teacher of German as a foreign language)
12/29/02 - 03/28/03 Curacao (System Operator on an Internet server)