Vita

1966                                                                       Born in Vienna, studied Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna.

from 1990                                                          Doctoral studies in Münster, completed doctorate in 1996

1993                                                                      Assistant at the Research Center for Feminist Theology

1993-1997                                                  Research assistant (from August 1996 Research
                                              Assistant) at the Seminar for Contemporary and Religious History of the Old
                                              Testament of the CatholicTheological Faculty of the WWU Münster

                                               Lectureships at the KFH Münster, the University of Essen, the University of Würzburg and the University of Graz, Freelance work in the field of theological adult education
                                              
                                              

1997-2004                                                    Assistant professor at the University of Essen University of Essen in the Old Testament
                                               Testament, Supervision of the study focus Judaism Studies

1999                                                                        two-month study visit at the Hebrew U

1999-2001                                                    Training as a psychodrama assistant

2001-2002
and
2003-2004                                                    Deputy Chair of the Old Testament at the University of Kassel

since April 2004                                       Professor of Biblical Theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the University of Kassel. Theology at the  
                                               University of Kassel (originally Faculty 01 / today Faculty 02)

March 2006 to                       Dean of Faculty 01 Educational Science/
February 2009                                          Human Sciences

July 2007                                                         Birth of Franziska, until July 2008 parental leave

April 2009                                                    Birth of Hannah, until April 2010 parental leave

2012 to 2014                                       Training in biography work at the Systemic Institute Kassel

most recently July 2021                     Managing Director of the Institute for Catholic Theology at
until May 2023                                            Faculty 02 of the University of Kassel

• March 15-17, 2023: together with Prof. Dr. Ansgar Wucherpfennig sj organization of the conference "The Normativity of the Torah in the Christian Bible" at the Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt/Main.

• March 16, 2023: Narrative and instruction as basic literary forms of the Torah. Lecture at the conference "The Normativity of the Torah in the Christian Bible" in Frankfurt/Main.

• September 7, 2022: Taking Measure of Scripture. Sketches of a Biblical Hermeneutics. Lecture at the conference of the DFG network "Religionspädagogische Hermeneutik".

• August 9, 2022: Levels of Narrative and the Credibility of Narrative, paper presented at the panel Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and Religiosity in the Books of Samuel at the IOSOT (International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament) Congress in Zurich.

• October 8, 2021: Against Silence. Biblical Texts Address Sexualized Violence, lecture at the conference Zur Sprache kommen. Biblical Texts and Sexualized Violence at the Academy Franz-Hitze-Haus (Münster)

• March 9, 2021: together with Rabbi Natalia Verzhbovska double scripture interpretation of the Song of Hannal (1 Sam 2) in the context of the Week of Brotherhood

• December 9, 2020: Frightening Continuities: Reading Stories on Sexual Violence in the Book of Samuel Today, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for BIblical Literature (Online).

• September 29-30, 2020: Biblical Theological Training on Identity in the context of the Biblical Pastoral Training of the Katholisches Bibelwerk at Haus Ohrbeck/ Georgsmarienhütte

• June 5, 2020: Lecture Torah - Prophecy - Kingship. Power Criticism from the First Testament in the context of the online conference Power Criticism through Theology, organized by Goethe University Frankfurt
• October 22-23, 2019: Biblical theological training on the topic of identity as part of the biblical pastoral training of the Katholisches Bibelwerk in Würzburg, Germany

• August 6, 2019: Lecture The Gender of Politics. The Familiarization of Rule in Dynastic Monarchy in the context of the annual meeting of IOSOT (International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament) in Aberdeen.

• June 12, 2019: Walter Dietrich's commentary on 1 Sam 27 - 2 Sam 8. commemorative lecture on the occasion of the publication of the third volume and the 75th birthday (Bern)

• May 14, 2018: lecture Geteilte Schrift. Reflections on addressership from a Christian perspective in the context of the conference Gegenwart und Zukunft des christlich-jüdischen Dialogs (Frankfurt).
• September 19-20, 2017: Training for pastoral staff: "Here I am" - Encountering God in a biblical and biographical perspective (Aachen)

• September 8, 2017: Lecture " How are we meant? Christian readings of the First Testament between rejection and appropriation in the context of the conference Re-Thinking Erich Zenger in Hofgeismar.

• July 2015: Lecture Zwischen Hinnehmen und Aufbegehren. Old Testament Approaches to Suffering in the context of the Ecumenical Summer Academy at Kremsmünster Abbey.

• June 26, 2015: The Song of Songs. A live radio play. in the chapel of the Elisabeth Hospital.

• June 12-14, 2015: Spaces - Bodies - Holiness. Lecture in the context of the 12th Hohenheim Meeting of Theologians: RAUMDESIGN - Raumkonzepte im theologischen Diskurs.

• June 6, 2015: Panel presentation at the German Protestant Church Congress on. Female figures as role models of personified wisdom

• June 5, 2015: gem. m. Prof. Dr. Christl Maier Bible study at the German Protestant Church Congress on Kohelet 3

• May 9, 2015: Testimony of faith in St. Familia

• April 25, 2015: Lecture The Old Testament as a space of encounter with God and with oneself. Food for thought for biblical pastoral ministry in the context of a conference of the Katholisches Bibelwerk Stuttgart: "The words grow with the reader" (Gregory the Great). Biblical pastoral impulses 50 years after Dei Verbum.

• October 23, 2014: "You are the man!" Cognitive processes in and on biblical narratives using the example of the learning David in 2 Sam 12 and 14. Guest lecture at the University of Graz .

• September 2, 2014: Constructions of gender in regulative texts of the Torah. Lecture in the context of the AGAT annual conference in Erfurt.

• July 30-31, 2014: gem. m. Prof. Dr. Thomas Naumann (Siegen) Die Samuelbücher in der Genderperspektive. Seminar in the framework of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (University of Leuven).

• February 12, 2014: gem. m. Prof. Dr. Anne-Charlott Trepp Body - Spaces - Sanctity. Old Testament and early modern perspectives on the dynamics of space and gender. Lecture in the context of the lecture series of the graduate college Dynamics of Space and Gender of the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen.

• November 27, 2013: Space in Motion. Sanctity, materiality and gender in the ark narrative of the Samuel books. Guest lecture at the University of Erfurt

• August 24, 2013: "Get up and eat! Otherwise the way will be too far for you."Biblical perspectives on demands, limits and the desire for abundance. Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar

• April 18, 2013: Stories that life writes. Narratology, biography work and biblical storytelling. Religious Education Institute Loccum

• April 17, 2013: gem. m. Herta Schindler Stories that anchor in the soul - Bible and biography. Systemic Institute Kassel

• July 4, 2012: gem. m. Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt. Hagar - a biblical figure in text and image. Lecture in the context of the lecture series Art and Gender of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies of the University of Kassel.

• June 18, 2012: Guest lecture at the University of Würzburg on the topic Ancient Oriental Goddesses and Female Images of God in the Bible in the Search Movements of Contemporary Religiosity.

• May 19, 2012: gem. m. Dr. Yvonne Sophie Thöne: Workshop Sexual violence: naming - and then? Biblical perspectives in the context of the 98th German Catholic Day Mannheim 2012.

• May 18, 2012: Panel discussion For a serving and poor church! The impetus of the Catacomb Pact in the Second Vatican Council 1965 in the context of the 98th German Catholic Day Mannheim 2012.

• March 11, 2012: Lenten sermon in St. Familia Kassel. Why did Jesus have to die?

• February 23, 2012: Exile, diaspora and the portability of the holy. Lecture as part of the series of events of the Kurhessian Society for Art and Science.

• January 9, 2012: Guest Lecture at the University of Mainz on Sexual Violence and the Power of Narrative. Biblical Traditions

• June 1, 2011: Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, entitled Of Motherhouses, Country Daughters, and City Women. Gendered Spaces in the Old Testament

• Summer semester 2011: Series of events "Being human from the beginning? Three evenings on the current ethics debate together with the KHG and the ESG Kassel

• May 5, 2011: Lecture The Wisdom Figure in the Context of Post-Exilic Monotheism in the Evangelical Forum Kassel

• April 7-9, 2011: Co-organizer of the conference God's Name(s). Scientific symposium in memory of Erich Zenger (1939-2010) in Münster, Germany.

• March 16, 2011: Guest lecture Narratives of Violence in the Old Testament. On dealing with difficult traditions at the University of Lucerne

• February 4-5, 2011: Lecture An den Rändern des Erzählens. Metalepse in Old Testament Literature at the symposium Metalepse in Ancient Literary and Artistic Discourses at the University of Giessen.

• January 15, 2011: Lecture and workshop at the New Year's Reception for Women of the Archdiocese of Paderborn

• June 10, 2010: "Breaking the Silence - Sexual Violence in Biblical Narratives." Leading of the theme evening at the Regional House Adolph Kolping.

• November 2, 2008: "Righteous is that which serves life". Sermon in the context of the university sermons in the Karlskirche; semester topic  GeRECHTigkeit(en)

• February 4, 2007: Lecture in the context of the event Seele - Kehle. On Singing and Meaning (Soundcheck 15). Together with Olaf Pyras, Reinhard Karger and the choir of the University of Kassel in the Kreuzkirche Kassel.

• January 19, 2007: "Why there is no school on Sunday - The invention of the 7-day week in the Bible". Lecture as part of the Children's University at the University of Kassel.

• January 13, 2007: "Getting a Taste for the Good Life".  Lecture in the context of the New Year's reception for women at the Liborianum, Paderborn.

• October 10, 2006: "... so that it begins differently between us all." (Hilde Domin) Empathy and Morality in Gen 4. Guest lecture at the University of Graz.

• October 4, 2006: On the art of practicing letting go in doing. Wisdom and Happiness in the Old Testament. Lecture and discussion at the Regionalhaus Adolph Kolping, Kassel.

• July 3, 2006: On the art of practicing letting go in doing. Theological  Moments of happiness.  Lecture in the context of the lecture series Glück  at the University of Kassel.

• May 5, 2006: "Let the woman be subject to the man" (Eph 5,24). On dealing with texts in the Bible that are contemptuous of women. Lecture at the Karl Rahner Academy Cologne

• February 28, 2006: The place of understanding. Bible study on Job 28. Lecture at the Convention of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches.

• September 28, 2005: Time, Space and Gaze. Hermeneutical and methodological foundations of the analysis of biblical narrative texts. Lecture at the conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Assistenten an bibelwissenschaftlichen Instituten in Österreich (September 28-30, 2005 in Salzburg).

• August 30, 2005: The Place of Understanding. Job 28 as part of the epistemological discussion of the Book of Job. Lecture at the annual conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschsprachigen katholischen Alttestamentlerinnen und Alttestamentler (29.08.-01.09.2005 in Olomouc).

• June 14, 2005 : "Dialogical Authority. The biblical canon from the perspective of feminist theology". Lecture at the University of Vienna.

• April 27, 2005 : "Canonical Scripture Interpretation. From authorial sense to reading community". Lecture at the conference of the Kassel Deanery.

• December 10, 2004: The Canonical Process under the Conditions of the Real Existing Patriarchy - Hermeneutical Reflections . Lecture at the conference Gender Studies e Testi Sacri (9.-11.12.2004 in Trento).

• December 8, 2004: "State and Future of Feminist Exegesis". Lecture on the occasion of the Dies academicus of the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Bonn.

• December 6, 2004: Departures - Upheavals - Limits? The Future of Feminist Theology. A contribution from the perspective of biblical studies. Lecture on the occasion of the Dies academicus of the University of Bonn.

• October 8, 2004: "Eve, a biblical person moved". Lecture at the Liborianum, Paderborn.