The IES Abroad Berlin Center is located in Mitte, the central district of Berlin, and is within easy walking distance of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate, the Berliner Dom, and other sights.
Features include:
Classrooms
Small library
High-speed Internet and printer access
Student lounge and outdoor terrace
The two IES Abroad programs at the Berlin Center are conducted on separate floors of the building.
Center staff:
Barbara Gügold Director
Barbara Gügold has been the Director of IES Abroad Berlin since 1992. She is a member of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin faculty where she teaches the methodology of foreign language teaching. She received her doctorate from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle in English Literature, and obtained a master’s degree in English and Russian from Leipzig Universität. She has worked in Sweden, Poland, Belgium, and the U.S. as a frequent guest lecturer. In her spare time she takes full advantage of the wealth of cultural opportunities in Berlin.
IES Abroad Staff
Katrin Arendt Assistant Director
Thomas Wagenknecht Academic and Cultural Advisor
Rolf-Dieter Staudt Office Manager and Coordinator of Student Services
Britta Tonak Housing and Special Programs Manager
Faculty (Summer and Semester Programs)
Sabine Berking Cultural Studies
Doktor philosophiae, Kolumnistin der Frankfurter Allegemeine ZeitungProjektleiterin at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Wolfgang Bialas Political and Social Science Doktor philosophiae, University of Leipzig; Research Associate, Hannah-Arendt-Institute, Technical University Dresden
Ulrich Brückner International Business
Doktor philosophiae, Gastprofessor, Political Science Department, Szczecin University, Poland
Stanford University
Laurenz Demps History
Professor Doktor habilitates
Professor Emeritus
Institute für Geschichte
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Stadthistoriker
Ulf Heinsohn Economics
Doktor oec
Berlin School of Economics
Law Berlin
Reinhard Isensee Political Science, American
Studies
Privatdozent Dr. habilitates
philosophiae
Philosophisches Fakultät,
Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
Bernhard Maleck Political Science, History
Doktor habilitates philosophiae
Freiberuflicher Projektmitarbeiter
Michael Opitz Theater, Media Studies
Doktor philosophiae
Literaturrezensent, Financial
Times and Freitag;
Deutschlandradio Berlin,
Abteilung Kultur und Literatur
Carola Opitz-Wiemers German and Feminist Literature
Doktor philosophiae
Deutschlandradio Berlin, Abteilung
Kultur und Literatur
Dorothea Löbbermann Literature, Film Studies Doktor philosophiae in American Literature, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Adjunct Faculty, Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin
Eva Maleck-Lewy
Jewish Studies
Doktor philosophiae
IES Abroad Berlin
The IES Abroad Berlin Center is located in Mitte, the central district of Berlin, and is within easy walking distance of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate, the Berliner Dom, and other sights.
Features include:
The two IES Abroad programs at the Berlin Center are conducted on separate floors of the building.
Barbara Gügold
Director
Barbara Gügold has been the Director of IES Abroad Berlin since 1992. She is a member of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin faculty where she teaches the methodology of foreign language teaching. She received her doctorate from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle in English Literature, and obtained a master’s degree in English and Russian from Leipzig Universität. She has worked in Sweden, Poland, Belgium, and the U.S. as a frequent guest lecturer. In her spare time she takes full advantage of the wealth of cultural opportunities in Berlin.
IES Abroad Staff
Katrin Arendt
Assistant Director
Thomas Wagenknecht
Academic and Cultural Advisor
Rolf-Dieter Staudt
Office Manager and Coordinator of Student Services
Britta Tonak
Housing and Special Programs Manager
Faculty (Summer and Semester Programs)
Sabine Berking
Cultural Studies
Doktor philosophiae, Kolumnistin der Frankfurter Allegemeine ZeitungProjektleiterin at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Wolfgang Bialas
Political and Social Science
Doktor philosophiae, University of Leipzig; Research Associate, Hannah-Arendt-Institute, Technical University Dresden
Ulrich Brückner
International Business
Doktor philosophiae, Gastprofessor, Political Science Department, Szczecin University, Poland
Stanford University
Laurenz Demps
History
Professor Doktor habilitates
Professor Emeritus
Institute für Geschichte
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Stadthistoriker
Ulf Heinsohn
Economics
Doktor oec
Berlin School of Economics
Law Berlin
Reinhard Isensee
Political Science, American
Studies
Privatdozent Dr. habilitates
philosophiae
Philosophisches Fakultät,
Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
Bernhard Maleck
Political Science, History
Doktor habilitates philosophiae
Freiberuflicher Projektmitarbeiter
Michael Opitz
Theater, Media Studies
Doktor philosophiae
Literaturrezensent, Financial
Times and Freitag;
Deutschlandradio Berlin,
Abteilung Kultur und Literatur
Carola Opitz-Wiemers
German and Feminist Literature
Doktor philosophiae
Deutschlandradio Berlin, Abteilung
Kultur und Literatur
Joachim Seifert
Diplom-Grafiker,
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter,
Abteilung Künstlerische
Grundlagen,
Kunsthochschule Berlin-
Weißensee
Dorothea Löbbermann
Literature, Film Studies
Doktor philosophiae in American Literature, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Adjunct Faculty, Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin
Eva Maleck-Lewy
Jewish Studies
Doktor philosophiae