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Elisabeth Sommerhoff

University studies at the Drama Department at the University of Giessen, University Studies abroad at the University of Vienna, Austria and at the Yale University, USA.

Degree: Diplom-Theaterwissenschaftlerin (Equivalent: M.A. in Drama and Literature)

University studies at the University of Marburg in the field of speech training and voice coaching.

Degree: Sprecherzieherin (DGSS)

Longtime experience in teaching adults, visiting lecturer (DAAD-Lektorin) for German culture and language at the University of Birmingham, Great Britain, 1995-2000.

Various theatre-workshops and projects for the stage in German and English at universities, schools and for freelance theatre-groups.

2001-2012 Lecturer for speech training at the University of Giessen, at the same time freelance work in teaching, voice, speech, and drama for students and teachers.

2013 Founding of "Stimmwerk" - starting to teach at "Schauspiel-Zentrum" Cologne

2016 Lecturer for "Intercultural Rhetoric Competence" at the Department of Speech Communication and Rhetoric