Dr. phil. Christine Koch

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Christine Koch, D. Phil., majored in German Studies, Romance philology, and education in Hamburg. After passing the teachers' state examination for "instructing at high schools", she obtained her PhD as a fellowship holder of the "German National Merit Foundation" in the fields of Language, Literature, Media & European Languages and Literature" on the topos of world theatre and game-playing as a motif in dramatic works by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard. Alongside her research work in the field of children's and young people's theater, since 2012 she is a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and teaches the subject "Theater" at a Hamburg high school.
Focus of interest and work: (Independent) children's and young people's theater in Europe (including music and dance theater for children, performance art for children, and theatre for toddlers); literature didactics with special consideration given to scenic interpretations; dramatic and theater didactics; and children's and young people's literature since the 1970s.