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PhD in the Humanities with a focus on literary studies, Germanist, and adjunct professor at the Center for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education at the University of Warsaw. She is the author of textbooks and materials for learning German. Through the Erasmus+ program, she teaches courses on the literature of German-speaking countries as well as on culture and history at universities in Austria, Germany, Hungary, and Norway. She has held scholarships at Freie Universität Berlin, Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, the University of Vienna, and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Her publications cover topics including the history and activities of women’s movements, the history and activities of the pacifist movement, theater in the Weimar Republic, time and space in literature, and literature and art opposing war.

Dr. Christian Efing ist Universitätsprofessor für „Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart“ am Institut für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der RWTH Aachen. Zuvor war er Universitätsprofessor für die Didaktik der deutschen Sprache an den Universitäten Erfurt und Wuppertal. Mehrfach war er Gastprofessur für Deutschdidaktik in Polen (Universität Warschau, Pädagogische Universität Krakau). Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Sprache und Kommunikation in Ausbildung und Beruf; Sprachdidaktik (insbesondere kommunikative Kompetenz); Angewandte Linguistik und Varietätenlinguistik (insbesondere Registerkompetenz, Geheimsprachen).

A Germanist and graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, a German language teacher with nearly 30 years of experience working with students at all levels of education. She has received numerous awards for outstanding achievements in teaching and educational work, as well as for her dedicated contributions to youth development. She served as a German teacher at the Prof. Wiktor Dega XV High School in Poznań, where she organized German-speaking culture days. She co-founded and coordinated Polish-German bilingual classes at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski XVII High School in Warsaw. She also taught phonetics in a state-of-the-art language lab, which she co-organized. She has completed numerous professional internships in German schools.

Dr. Przemysław Wolski is an adjunct professor at the Center for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education at the University of Warsaw, where he conducts courses in didactics and practical German language. His research interests focus on the use of digital media and learner autonomy in foreign language education. Through the Erasmus program, he has lectured on didactics at pedagogical universities in Halden (Norway), Győr (Hungary), Krems (Austria), and Freiburg (Germany). In 2017–2018, he led a seminar at the University of Wuppertal. He is the author of numerous textbooks, digital resources for language learning, curricula, and academic publications.