Regina Leven

Regina Leven (born April 1957 in Krefeld ) is a German linguist and professor in the Sign Language Interpreting course at the Department of Social and Health Services at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences . Her parents Marlies and Hans Leven were both deaf .

Life

School and education

After graduating from high school in Krefeld, Regina Leven studied special education with a focus on deaf education in Cologne , Heidelberg and San Francisco from 1977 to 1982 .

From 1987 to 1989 Leven trained in behavior therapy at the behavior therapy outpatient department of the Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and was then until 1991 research assistant / behavior therapist at the same institution.

Professional activities

From 1982 to 1987 she was a research assistant / sign language interpreter at the Research Center for German Sign Language (now: Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf) at the University of Hamburg as well as a lecturer in the sign language interpreting training.

After several years of activity as a sworn sign language interpreter, Leven worked from 1989 to 1997 in Hamburg as a resident psychotherapist for deaf, hard of hearing, deaf and multiply disabled children, adolescents and adults, and then in Berlin.

Since 1997 she has been professor for the field of sign language interpreting in the department of social and health services at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (now retired).

In 1999 she received her license to practice medicine as a "psychological psychotherapist".

Fonts (selection)

• Considerations for the conception of a course in sign language interpreting at a university of applied sciences . In: Daszeichen , magazine of the Institute for German Sign Language, Hamburg , ISSN  0932-4747 , issue 40 (1997), pp. 258-266
• Criteria for the assessment of interpreting services. A guide to preparing for interpreting exams . In: Daszeichen , 55 (2001), pp. 140–153
• Deaf and hard of hearing people with mental disorders . Second revised edition. Publishing house for hearing-impaired children, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-924055-22-X
  • Deaf and hard of hearing people with mental disorders , reprint of the second edition, by Loeper Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe 2018, ISBN 978-3-86059-922-8
• Hearing impaired: Pseudo provision , In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , March 2003 edition, p. 108 ( online as PDF )

With other authors:

• Siegmund Prillwitz , Regina Leven, Heiko Zienert, Thomas Hanke and Jan Henning: HamNoSys Version 2.0 (Hamburg notation system for sign language). An introduction . (International work on sign language and communication of the deaf). Signum, Hamburg 1989
• Wiltraud Thies, Regina Leven: Sign Language Interpreting. Documentation of the Magdeburg symposium . (Theory and practice). Verlag Hearing Impaired Children, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-924055-26-2
• Renate Fischer, Regina Leven: German Sign Language , in: G. Booij, C. Lehmann, J. Mugdan, S. Skopetas, in collaboration with Wolfgang Kesselheim (Ed.): Morphologie. Morphology. An international handbook on inflection and word formation. An international handbook on inflection and word-formation . Vol. 2. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-011128-4 , pp. 1554-1562
• Gudrun Hillert, Regina Leven: Sign language interpreting , in: Hanna Eichmann, Martje Hansen, Jens Heßmann (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Sign Language. Linguistic and application-related perspectives . Signum, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936675-20-7

Honor

With the team from the Institute for German Sign Language at the University of Hamburg, Regina Leven received the 1997 Culture Prize of the German Deaf Association (2nd German Culture Days for the Deaf in Dresden)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hearing impaired: "Pseudo care offer"
2. ↑ Hamburg notation system for sign language