Stephanie Jentgens

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Stephanie Jentgens (* 1964 in Wuppertal ) is a German university lecturer , author , editor and juror . She is an expert in children's and young people's literature , literary educator with a focus on oral storytelling, reading and language promotion, creative writing and hyperfiction .

Live and act

Stephanie Jentgens studied German , psychology and politics in Wuppertal, Freiburg and Cologne. She worked at the department for children's and youth literature research at the University of Cologne . Since 1995 she has been the first lecturer for literature and language at the Remscheid Academy , built up the department and headed it until 2018.

Already in the nineties she carried out training courses on poetry slams . Based on this experience, she invented the Book Slam . In 1997 she ran the first story-telling festival in Germany together with the game teacher Gerhard Knecht, and together with him she developed a training course in which literary and game-pedagogical methods were used to invent and tell stories. The festival was held every two years continuously until 2016. From 2002 to 2006 she was a juror for the German Youth Literature Prize and between 2002 and 2008 she held teaching positions at the University of Dortmund .

Jentgens led several projects to teach oral storytelling to children (including Fabula Held, a project at ten primary schools in North Rhine-Westphalia ). In 2008 she developed the advanced training "Literature Pedagogy" for the first time in Germany and in 2016 published the corresponding "Textbook Literary Pedagogy". From 2012 to 2015 she was chairwoman of the working group for youth literature

In 2018 she quit her position at the Academy of Cultural Education and took on a job at the Martin Luther University in Halle .

Works (selection)

  • Wolfgang Beywl, Wolfgang Helmstädter, Stephanie Jentgens, Udo Schramm: Companies in self-administration. An empirical study in North Rhine-Westphalia , publishing house for scientific publications, 1990
  • Stephanie Jentgens: Kassandra. Varieties of a literary figure . Olms Verlag, dissertation, 1995
  • Stephanie Jentgens, Claudia Krämer, Kathrin Waldt, Annette Graf, Kathrin Frank: Observe, encourage and challenge in German lessons. Card index 1–4 , Westermann, 2006/07
  • Stephanie Jentgens and Gerhard servant Tell games from A to Z . Westermann, 2009
  • Renate Höfer, Stephanie Jentgens, Gerhard Knecht, Florian Straus: storytelling is more than storytelling . Ludwigshafen, 2009
  • Stephanie Jentgens, Claudia Crämer, Kathrin Walcher-Frank (Eds.): Reader Mobile 2 and 3 , Westermann, 2010, 2011
  • Stephanie Jentgens (Ed.): Lesebuch Mobile 4 , Westermann, 2012
  • Stephanie Jentgens (ed.): Teacher materials for the reading book Mobile 4 , Westermann, 2012
  • Stephanie Jentgens, Susanne Tiggemann: 24 Christmas carols and reading stories . Illustrated by Alexa Riemann, Schott Verlag, 2014
  • Stephanie Jentgens (Ed.): What's going on in front of my door? 20 stories of the best for the 60th birthday of the German Youth Literature Award. Jacoby & Stuart, 2016
  • Stephanie Jentgens: Textbook literary pedagogy . An introduction to the theory and practice of teaching literature. Beltz Verlag, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jentgens, Stephanie | kubi-online. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: Dr. Stephanie Jentgens. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Interview with Dr. Stephanie Jentgens: Quality assurance in promoting reading. June 27, 2012, accessed May 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Stephanie Jentgens | Wuppertal | Network telling. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jentgens, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university lecturer, author, editor and juror
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal