Sage und Schreibe

Christian Fandrych is Professor of German as a Foreign Language at the Herder Institute of the University of Leipzig. He studied German as a Foreign Language, German Studies and Modern History in Munich and has worked as a lecturer at LMU Munich, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and King's College London, among others. He deals with questions of language description and language teaching and has published widely on this subject.

Ulrike Tallowitz studied English and Hispanic Studies in Cologne and then completed a lecturer training program in German as a Foreign Language at the Goethe-Institut in Munich. She worked for several years as a DAAD lecturer in Mexico, where she primarily focused on reading comprehension and teacher training. Since 2007, she has been a German as a Foreign Language lecturer at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.