| School and university activities |
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| Students' exchange: |
1995/96 with Faro (Portugal) at the Offene Schule Babenhausen (Open School Babenhausen; OSB):
Projects concerning "Water" and "Household garbage"
1998 with Budapest (Hungary) of the Bachgauschule (BGS) 1999 with Hungary and England of the BGS: Comenius Project of the European Union concerning "Europe after 1989" by means of the Internet, a video conference, and class trips to Eisenach (Eastern part of Germany) and England |
| Philosophy Club: |
1998-2000 Member of the Philosophy Club led by the teacher Andreas Leipold, every once in a while present when being in Babenhausen! Topics: "Socrate and Platon", "Communism", "What is Time?", and many others |
| Drama Club: |
1998-2000 actor with our teacher and director Dr Weber
Plays performed: "Der Weltuntergang" ("The End of the World") by Jura Soyfer (two roles as French diplomat and Vienna street singer), modern version of "Das Kaffeehaus" ("The coffee house") by Carlo Goldoni (role as false consul and fraud) |
| P-Days: |
1st semester class 12: Role play about "Who is guilty of World War One" (in the role of the French
president Poincaré - in French!)
2nd semester class 12: Project paper "War & Aggression", article about "The Road to Stalingrad" 1st semester class 13: Presentations on "The Sixties", my own presentation on the "Race to the Moon", disguised as frustrated and unsuccessful Soviet cosmonaut |
| Pol&IS: |
Participating in the role play "Politics and International Security" (Pol&IS) with the Social Sciences Honors class of Mr Fischer at the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) barracks of Birkenfeld, performing the role of the Japanese "secretary of state" |
| Editorial staff work: |
Editor-in-chief of the independent students' magazine "Das große X" ("The Great X") from 1992 through 1997 (participating
and prize winning in the 1st European students' magazine competition of the "Stiftung Lesen" ("Reading Foundation") in 1996)
Working for the OSB Yearbook for the Class of 1997 Working for the Highland High School Yearbook during 1997-98 ("Regalia 98") Editor-in-chief of the project paper "War & Aggression" during 1998-99 Working for the BGS Yearbook for the Class of 2000 Responsible editor of "1001" magazine for people interested in the studies of the "Modern Middle East" at my university since summer semester 2002 |
| Students' body: |
1995-96: Course vice president at the OSB
1996-97: Course president at the BGS Member of the Fachschaftsinitiative (students' body) Oriental Philology, newly founded in 2002 Elected students' representative for the Fachbereichsrat (faculty council) of the Philosophic Faculty I 2002-2003 |