Jonas Langner
DAAD-Lektor
Sprechstunde: Tuesday 2-3 and Thursday 4-5
Email: j.o.langner@bris.ac.uk
Telephone: + 44 (0117) 928 9839
Room: 2.69
Career
Mr Langner is part of our dedicated team of Language teachers in the German Department. He studied English, German, and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and graduated in 2007 with the 1. Staatsexamen, the equivalent of an M.A.
During his studies he worked as a wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft in the Department of German for Prof. Joachim Fritzsche (Didactics of German) and Prof. Hans-Joachim Solms (History of the German Language). As part of this work he was involved in compiling a new Middle High German Grammar and helped editing the latest edition of Hermann Paul's Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik.
In 2007 Mr Langner joined the German Department of the University of Bristol as a German Language Assistant and since 2008 he has been our DAAD-Lektor (German Academic Exchange Service). Apart from his duties as language teacher for every year of the degree programme, he took over the responsibilities of a DAAD representative and therefore offers help and advice on scholarships for study or work placements in Germany, both for students and members of staff. He is also in charge of onDaF, an online version of a test on German-as-a-foreign-language compiled by the TestDaF-Institut in Hagen.
Teaching
Mr Langner teaches GERM 10034 German History, Society, and Culture in Children's Literature to our Year 1 Single Honours students and GERM 32061 Teaching German as a Foreign Language to our final year students, as well as German Language Units in all years of the degree programme.
Research Interests
Mr Langner completed his Erste Staatsexamen in 2007 with a study on “Der ‘Libertin’ in Thomas Shadwells ‘The Libertine’ and Sir George Ethereges ‘The Man of Mode’: literarischer Typus und kulturelles Phänomen”. His current research interests are the representations of society and culture in children’s literature and the notion of Sprachverfall in contemporary German.