Teaching experience

2020
Freie Universität Berlin

  • Die Anfänge und Enden akkadischer Epen (BA and MA).

  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Die mytho-historiographische 'Sumerische Königsliste' und ihr literarisches Umfeld (BA and MA).

  • 2019
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Sex, drugs und harte Arbeit - die Lebenswelten im antiken Mesopotamien (Lecture for BA and MA).
  • Methoden philologischer Forschung "Keilschrift in Theorie und Praxis" (with B. Kärger) (BA and MA).
  • Begleitmodul zum Verfassen einer altorientalistischen Abschlussarbeit (BA and MA).
  • Weit mehr als nur Schöpfung – Marduks Aufstieg im Enūma elîš (BA and MA).
  • Oberseminar (for PhD candidates).

  • 2018
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Die Welt in 600 Zeichen - oder wie das 'Denken' im antiken Mesopotamien ab 3200 v. Chr. begann (Lecture for BA and MA).
  • „šumma ana erṣeti turrad…“ - Unterweltsgänge in der akkadischen Literatur (as part of the team-teaching programme Take-Off im Team, with A. Cöster-Gilbert) (BA and MA).

  • University of Cambridge
  • Lecture on Atramhasis as part of the course "Mesopotamian culture: Literature" (BA).

  • 2017
    Harvard University
  • Atramhasis (graduate students).

  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Lectures on the history of the 3rd millennium BC, Mesopotamian science, and Mesopotamian philosophy as part of the Assyriological lecture series (BA and MA).

  • 2016
    Harvard University
  • Enuma elish (graduate students).

  • University of Cambridge
  • Myth and ritual - An Old Babylonian Sumerian incantation (MA).
  • Lecture on Atramhasis as part of the course "Mesopotamian culture: Literature" (BA).


  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    2015
  • Working with manuscripts - methodological perspectives on ancient media (BA and MA).
  • Lectures on the history of the 3rd millennium BC and on Mesopotamian science as part of the Assyriological lecture series (BA and MA).

  • 2014
  • The Cuthean Legend - a diachronic reading (BA and MA).

  • 2013
  • Akkadian defensive rituals and ancient body concepts (BA and MA).
  • Sucession and legitimation: approaching the core thematic strands of enūma eliš (BA and MA).

  • 2011
  • The first tablet of the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš (BA and MA).
  • Akkadian royal inscriptions (BA).

  • 2010
  • The enūma eliš. Reading, analysis, interpretation (BA and MA).
  • Introduction into the methods of philological work (with A. Lange) (BA and MA).

  • 2009
  • Tutorials to the seminars Akkadian I and II (BA).

  • 2008
  • Introduction into Ancient Near Eastern Studies (BA).

  • International Management School Malente
    2001
    Tutorials to the lectures Finance I and II (BA).