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Vertreter der Professur (bis 31.03.26)
NameMr Dr. phil. Florian Hesse
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Inhaberin der Professur
NameProf. Dr. Anna Rebecca Hoffmann (ab 01.03.2026)
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Prof. Dr. Anna Rebecca Hoffmann
My current core research areas are empirical professional and teaching research. In these areas, I recently completed my habilitation thesis on "Literary evaluations and their negotiation processes in classroom discussions. A videography study" and am currently researching the selection of objects by teachers in German lessons. In addition, I am very interested in media didactics (also from a historical, discourse-analytical perspective), reception research (especially with regard to graphic literature), graphic novels and extracurricular places of learning for German lessons.
As part of the DFG-funded SFB project "The Popular in Schools", I am researching together with Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig (University of Siegen) from a transdisciplinary perspective how digital media enter the classroom as popular objects.
Scientific biography
- 03/2026 - today: Professor of Didactics of German Language and Literature at TU Dresden
- 11/2025 - today: Head of the SDD working group "Literary Learning"
- 05/2025 - 02/2025 : Practical semester representative for German Studies at the University of Siegen
- 02/2024: Appointment to the W2 Chair of German Literature with a focus on reading and literary didactics at the Department of Modern Philologies at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (declined)
- 04/2023 - 02/2026: Junior Professor of German Literature and its Didactics at the University of Siegen (positive interim evaluation)
- 02/2022 - 03/2023: wiss. Assistant in the didactics of German at the University of Leipzig
- 08/2021 - 02/2022: Teacher at the Humboldtschule (grammar school), Leipzig
- 03/2020 - 07/2021: Trainee teacher in the subjects German and History at Humboldtschule (Gymnasium), Leipzig (grade: 1.0, with distinction)
- 10/2019 - 02/2020: Teaching fellow in the didactics of German at the University of Leipzig
- 08/2014 - 04/2018: wiss. Research assistant in the DFG project "Co-construction of literary educational concepts in the course of the upper secondary school level" at the University of Osnabrück
- 09/2010 - 07/2014: wiss. Research assistant in German literature didactics at the University of Osnabrück
- 04/2013: two-week Erasmus lectureship (LLP) at the Dicle Üniversitesi in Diyarbakir, Turkey
- 10/2010 - 07/2017: PhD at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen; member of the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC);
PhD topic: "On the memory work of literary museums and memorials. An empirical study" (grade: summa cum laude) - 09/2009 - 06/2010: Scholarship as a language assistant of the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Pécs, Hungary
- 2004 - 2011: Studied German, History, Social Sciences and the additional course 'Sport and Exercise' for Teacher Training - Secondary Schools and Comprehensive Schools at the University of Siegen and the Université François Rabelais in Tours (France)
Publications
(Collaborative) monographs:
Bothmer, Carsten/Hoffmann, Anna R./Ogrodnik, Julia/Schuncke, Katharina: Aufsatzdidaktik. Competence-oriented - process-oriented - product-oriented. Seelze: Klett/Kallmeyer 2022.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R.: Co-construction of literary educational ideas. An empirical study of literature teaching at upper secondary level. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2019.
Remembering literature. On the commemorative work of literary museums and memorials. Bielefeld: transcript 2018 (dissertation).
Krentel, Friedolin/Barthel, Katja/Brand, Sebastian/Friedrich, Alexander/Hoffmann, Anna R./Meneghello, Laura/Müller, Jennifer C./Wilke, Christian: Library Life. Workshops of cultural studies work. Meson press 2015. (Link: https://meson.press/books/library-life/)
Editorships:
Hoffmann, Anna R./Witte, Jennifer (eds.): Values, Values and Teaching Values in the German Classroom. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang 2025 (forthcoming)
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R./Witte, Jennifer (eds.): Schulische Literaturvermittlungsprozesse im Fokus empirischer Forschung. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2020.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R. (eds.): Lehrer- und Unterrichtsforschung in der Literaturdidaktik. Concepts and projects. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2017.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Walter, Benjamin (eds.): Interculturality and Transculturality in Drama, Theater and Film. Perspectives from literary studies and literary didactics. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2015.
Essays:
Hoffmann, Anna R./Ovesiek, Hanna: Norms and practice of subject selection. How teachers select objects for literature lessons. In: Führer, Carolin (ed.): Normativity and relativity in German didactics and teaching. Language and literature didactic perspectives. (submitted; the volume will be submitted to SLLD-B with a double-blind peer review process, expected to be published in 2026)
Hoffmann, Anna R./Loos, Milena/Wegener, Julia A./Wessel, Sarah: Experiences of BA and MA students as substitute teachers in German. Challenges and potentials. In: Hesse, Florian (ed.): Deutschlehrkräftebildung in Zeiten des Lehrkräftemangels (submitted; the volume will be submitted to SLLD-B with a double-blind peer review process, expected to be published in 2026). 2026)
Hoffmann, Anna R./Ovesiek, Hanna: Reading selection decisions of German teachers. In: Hoffmann, Anna R./Witte, Jennifer (eds.): Values, values and the teaching of values in German lessons. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2026 (accepted).
Hoffmann, Anna R./Witte, Jennifer: Values, values and the teaching of values. In: This (ed.): Values, values and teaching values in the German classroom. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2026 (forthcoming).
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Media in the teaching of literature. In: Dawidowski, Christian: Literaturdidaktik Deutsch. 2nd ed. Paderborn: UTB 2025, pp. 267-293.
Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R./Witte, Jennifer: Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R./Witte, Jennifer: Zur Rekonstruktion literarischer Orientierungsmuster mithilfe der Dokumentarischen Methode in Kombination mit der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Videografie. In: Hesse, Florian/Winkler, Iris (eds.): Eine Literaturstunde - sechs Perspektiven auf Unterricht und Unterrichtsqualität: Ansätze literaturdidaktischer Unterrichtsforschung in der Diskussion. SLLD-B. Vol. 17, pp. 22-34.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Hybrid forms of the graphic novel between fictional and non-fictional literature (basic contribution). In: Wrobel, Dieter/Frei-Kuhlmann, Janika (eds.): Graphic novels and comics in the literature classroom - analyses and didactic perspectives. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang 2025, pp. 89-114.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Ecological graphic novels. In: Sippl, Carmen/Mikota, Jana (eds.): Ökologische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Grundlagen - Themen - Didaktik (Pedagogy for Lower Austria, vol. 15). Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2024, pp. 146-166.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Earthboi as a 'reminder of humanity'? - The ecological graphic novel Unfollow from the perspective of students. In: Sippl, Carmen/Mikota, Jana (eds.): Ökologische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Grundlagen - Themen - Didaktik (Pedagogy for Lower Austria, vol. 15). Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2024, pp. 501-510.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R./Witte, Jennifer: Am Einzelfall - Ko-Konstruktion literarischer Bildungsvorstellungen im Leistungskurs Deutsch. In: This (ed.): School literary mediation processes in the focus of empirical research. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2020, pp. 163-207.
Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R.: Literary interpretation patterns and their influence on subjective theories and teaching behavior. In: Schmidt, Frederike/Schindler, Kirsten (eds.): Knowledge and beliefs of teachers. Current findings in German didactic professional research. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2020, pp. 73-88.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: House of poets. In: Ott, Christine/Wrobel, Dieter (ed.): Extracurricular places of learning for German lessons. Connections - approaches - skills acquisition. Seelze: Klett/Kallmeyer 2019, pp. 41-43.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Extracurricular places of learning in subject didactic research. With special consideration of museums as extracurricular places of learning. In: Boelmann, Jan (ed.): Empirical research in German didactics. Volume 3. Hohengehren: Schneider 2018, pp. 129-144.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: The potential of literature museum institutions as places for teaching literature. In: Ott, Christine/Wrobel, Dieter (ed.): Public literature didactics. Basic considerations in theory and practice. Berlin: ESV 2018, pp. 179-192.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Literature museum institutions as extracurricular places of learning. In: Roeder, Caroline (ed.): On pencil paths. Extracurricular literary (learning) places (kjl&m 17.3). Munich: kopaed 2017, pp. 23-30.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika: On the introduction. In: This (ed.): Teacher and classroom research in literature didactics. Concepts and projects. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2017, pp. 7-9.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R.: On the co-construction of literary educational ideas in literature-related teaching activities at upper secondary level. First results of an empirical project. In: Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Stolle, Angelika R. (eds.): Lehrer- und Unterrichtsforschung in der Literaturdidaktik. Concepts and projects. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2017, pp. 33-60.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R.: Attitudinal dispositions of teacher trainees in German studies towards literature and literature teaching. Results of a questionnaire study. In: Announcements of the German Association of Germanists 63. H. 2. 2016, pp. 187-208.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R.: Co-construction of literary educational concepts in the course of upper secondary school. In: Mitterer, Nicole/Nagy, Hajnalka/Wintersteiner, Werner (eds.): Mitteilbares, Mittelbares und Unvermitteltes. Theoretical perspectives on literary didactics. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2016, pp. 85-110.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Media in the teaching of literature. In: Dawidowski, Christian: German literature didactics. Paderborn: UTB 2015, pp. 252-271.
Hoffmann, Anna R./Walter, Benjamin: Inter- and transculturality in drama and theater. In: Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R./Walter, Benjamin (eds.): Interculturality and Transculturality in Drama, Theater and Film. Perspectives from literary studies and didactics. Frankfurt a.M. et al: Lang 2015, pp. 43-75.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Library Life - spaces of cultural studies work. In: Hoffmann, Anna R./Krentel, Friedolin/Barthel, Katja et al: Library Life. Meson press 2015, pp. 77-93.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Literary museums - temples of the canon? In: Karg, Ina/Jessen, Barbara (eds.): Kanon und Literaturgeschichte. Facets of a discussion. Frankfurt a.M. et al: Lang 2014, pp. 91-110.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Technical language in the literature classroom. Learning literary terms in an application-oriented way. In: German lessons. H. 5. 2014, PP. 30-36
Hoffmann, Anna R.: German-Turkish literature as perceived by Turkish Erasmus students. In: Dawidowski, Christian (ed.): Literature, Reading and Migration (= IMIS-Beiträge 45). Osnabrück 2014, pp. 121-138.
Heuer, Julia/Hoffmann, Anna R.: The significance of Turkish-German children's and youth literature in German lessons and for pupils with a Turkish migration background. In: Josting, Petra/Roeder, Caroline (eds.): "Das ist bestimmt was Kulturelles". Own and foreign using the example of children's and youth media (kjl&m 13 extra). Munich: kopaed 2013, pp. 185-195.
Heuer, Julia/Hoffmann, Anna R.: Between heritage and experience. Education in literary museums 1900 and 2000. In: Dawidowski, Christian (ed.): Bildung durch Dichtung/Literarische Bildung. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2013, pp. 213-236.
Dawidowski, Christian/Hoffmann, Anna R.: Literature and migration. An empirical study on the significance of German-Turkish literature among young people with a migration background. In: Hofmann, Michael/Pohlmeier, Inga (eds.): German-Turkish and Turkish literature. Literary and didactic perspectives. Würzburg: K&N 2013, pp. 93-113.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Media literacy and media criticism in the context of new media. In: Dawidowski, Christian/Wrobel, Dieter (eds.): Criticism and competence. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider 2013, pp. 95-116.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: A comparison of poetry and its didactic integration in textbooks from the 1970s and 2000s. In: Ehlers, Swantje/Dawidowski, Christian (eds.): The reading book as an educational medium, Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2013, pp. 123-144.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: The Strittmatter memorial 'Der Laden' in the conflict of memory between veneration and remembrance. In: Gansel, Carsten/Braun, Matthias (eds.): Es geht um Erwin Strittmatter oder Vom Streit um die Erinnerung (=Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien). Göttingen: V&R unipress 2012, pp. 39-57.
Hoffmann, Anna R.: Types of literary museums as places of cultural memory. In: Szendi, Zoltán (ed.): Interactions I. German-language literature and culture in a regional and international context. Vienna: Praesens Verlag 2012, pp. 635-650.
Lectures:
06.11.2025
"Fachdidaktische Diskurse zu digitalen Medien als Lerngegenständen in fachdidaktischen Zeitschriften der Fächer Deutsch und Sozialwissenschaften", at the DVPB conference "Künstliche Intelligenz und Entgrenzung der sozialen Medien - Herausforderungen für Demokratie, Gesellschaft und politische Bildung" in Landau, together with Alexander Wohnig
27.09.2025
"Digital educational media as danger or opportunity? A conflict in practice journals for teachers of German and social sciences" at the conference "Bildungsmeiden als politischer und gesellschaftlicher Konfliktfall" at the University of Vienna (Austria), together with Alexander Wohnig
17.06.2025
Ecological graphic novels as a medium for education for sustainable development at the Federal Environment Agency (online)
15./16.05.2025
"Experiences of BA and MA students as substitute teachers in German. Subject-specific challenges and potentials", together with Milena Loos, Sarah Wessel and Julia Wegener (University of Siegen)
17.09.2024
"On the subject selection of teachers of different school types in literature lessons" at the SDD "Über/fachliche Deutschdidaktik" in September 2024 in Mainz, together with Hanna Ovesiek (University of Leipzig)
16.09.2024
"Werte(n) und Wertevermittlung als Querschnittsaufgabe des Deutschunterrichts" at the SDD "Über/fachliche Deutschdidaktik" in September 2024 in Mainz, together with Jennifer Witte (University of Osnabrück)
01.07.2022
"Literary evaluations in classroom discussions", advanced seminar at the University of Osnabrück
26.04.2019
"Co-construction of literary educational ideas in the course of upper secondary level: Results" at the conference "Schulische Literaturvermittlungsprozesse im Fokus empirischer Forschung. Projects and Results" in Osnabrück (together with Christian Dawidowski and Angelika R. Stolle)
19.09.2018: "Literary interpretation patterns and their influence on subjective theories and teaching behavior" at the SDD in Hamburg (together with Angelika R. Stolle)
29.09.2017
"On the significance of literary patterns of interpretation for the teaching behavior of German teachers and the negotiation processes of literature" at the GFD-KOFADIS conference "Fachdidaktische Forschung zur Lehrerbildung" in Freiburg
12.11.2016
"Zwischen Kult, Auseinandersetzung und Eventisierung - zum Potenzial literaturmusealer Einrichtungen in der Literaturvermittlung" at the conference "Außerschulische Aneignungs- und Vermittlungsprozesse von Literatur. Perspectives for the didactics of literature" in Würzburg
19.09.2016: "Literary interpretation patterns of teachers and learners in the upper secondary school. First results" at the SDD in Ludwigsburg (together with Christian Dawidowski and Angelika R. Stolle)
14.04.2016
"Zur Ko-Konstruktion von literarischen Bildungsvorstellungen im Verlauf der gymnasialen Oberstufe" at the conference "Lehrer*innen- und Unterrichtsforschung in der Literaturdidaktik" in Osnabrück (together with Christian Dawidowski)
08.09.2014
"Co-construction of literary educational concepts in the course of upper secondary school" at the SDD in Basel (together with Christian Dawidowski)
24.04.2014
"Literarizität und literarische Bildung im Literaturunterricht - Eine empirische Annäherung" at the conference "Die Ansprüche der Literatur und deren Vermittlung" (together with Christian Dawidowski)
07.03.2014: "Types of literary museum memory - results of an empirical study" at the conference "Kulturgeschichte des Dichterhauses, Arbeitsgespräch zum Projekt-Abschluss", German Seminar in Göttingen
23.09.2013
"Literary museums as institutions of the canon" at the Deutscher Germanistentag in Kiel
18.09.2012: "Zum Stellenwert türkisch-deutscher Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Deutschunterricht und bei Schüler/innen mit Migrationshintergrund" at the SDD in Augsburg (together with Julia Heuer)
21.06.2012: "Between heritage and experience. Education in literary museums 1900 and 2000" at the conference "Bildung durch Dichtung - Literarische Bildung" in Osnabrück (together with Julia Heuer)
29.11.2011
"Zur Institutionalisierung musealer Erinnerung am Beispiel literarischer Museen" at the conference "Erinnerungsräume transmedial. East Central Europe in Context" in Marburg
19.11.2011: "Literature and migration. An empirical study on the significance of German-Turkish literature among young Turkish people with a migration background" at the conference "German-Turkish and Turkish literature in German lessons" in Schwerte/Villigst (together with Christian Dawidowski)
02.09.2011
"Institutionalization of memory as tradition building using the example of the founding processes of literary museums" at the conference "Literatur ausstellen. Interdisciplinary and intermedial aspects of the mediation of literature" in Göttingen
11.09.2010
"Literary museums as places of cultural memory in comparison" at the international conference "Wechselwirkungen. German-language literature and culture in a regional and international context" in Pécs, Hungary
Memberships:
Symposium on German Didactics
German Association of Germanists
SDD-AG "Literary Learning"