Alfred Wildfire

Alfred Wildfeuer (* 1973 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

From 1992 to 1997 he studied English and German for teaching at secondary schools at the University of Regensburg and at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London . After completing his doctorate in German philology in 2000 at the University of Regensburg, supported by a two-year scholarship from the university, he was a trainee lawyer and secondary school teacher for German, English and ethics at the state secondary schools in Regensburg I, Forchheim and Abensberg from 2000 to 2004 . In 2003 he completed his training as an oral examiner & supervisor for PET exams at the Cambridge Institute in Munich (official examination center for the international language exams of the University of Cambridge ). From 2004 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Didactics of German Language and Literature at the University of Regensburg. From 2008 to 2013 he was an academic advisor at the Chair for Didactics of German Language and Literature at the University of Regensburg. From 2013 to 2014 he was a professor for variation linguistics and DaZ / DaF at the University of Augsburg . In 2014, he turned down the call to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (USA) for a position as Associate Professor of German (tenure-track) in combination with the position of Director of the Max Kade German American Resource Center. After his habilitation in 2013 at the University of Regensburg in the subject of German linguistics, he has been teaching since October 2014 as a professor for variation linguistics and DaZ / DaF at the University of Augsburg. Since December 2015 he has headed the FORUMOST research and cooperation center at the University of Augsburg. In 2016 he turned down the offer of a professorship for German language and its didactics with a focus on German as a second and foreign language at the University of Trier .

Fonts (selection)

• The dialect in the Kirchdorfer Land. Status and tendencies of a central Central Bavarian subdialect . Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-631-37576-X .
• as editor with Ludwig Zehetner and Ulrich Kanz: Dialect and Media. Contributions to the 3rd Dialectological Symposium in the Bavarian Forest, Walderbach, May 2008 . Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939112-25-9 .
• Language contact, multilingualism and loss of language. German-Bohemian-Bavarian minority languages ​​in the USA and New Zealand . Berlin 2017, ISBN 3-11-055089-X .
• with Johannes Wild: Language didactics. An introduction and continuation of the first and second language didactics of German . Tübingen 2019, ISBN 3-8233-8202-0 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Alfred Wildfire