Sylvia C. Löhken

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Sylvia C. Löhken (born April 8, 1965 in Schwelm ) is a German non-fiction and specialist book author, linguist, lecturer and speaker.

Sylvia C. Löhken

Life

After graduating from high school, Sylvia C. Löhken completed a bank training at the Sparkasse Hagen and then studied German, Romance studies, journalism and general linguistics at the University of Münster from 1987 to 1989 . She then studied German linguistics, modern German literature and Romance studies at the Technical University of Berlin (1989–1992). Löhken was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

Löhken worked as a research assistant at the Center for General Linguistics from 1993 to 1997 . Her research areas included phonology and the language change in German. In 1997 she did her doctorate on the subject of "German word prosody". In her doctorate, she describes and explains the weakening and deletion of auxiliary syllable vowels from Old High German to New High German using the theory of optimality .

After completing her doctorate in 1997 at the Center for General Linguistics, Typology and Universality Research (ZAS) in Berlin, Sylvia C. Löhken taught German linguistics at the Keiō University of Tokyo and worked for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as deputy director of the Tokyo office. In 2000 she returned to Germany and until 2006 took on management positions in the staff department of the DAAD headquarters in Bonn. In 2003 she started working as a trainer and consultant in the areas of communication as well as life and career planning. Löhken has been a self-employed author, speaker and trainer since 2007. With her companies textATRIUM and IntrosExtros (Bonn), she looks after customers from the fields of business, science, science administration, administration, IT and municipal executives. From 2013 to 2015 she was a board member of the Coachingnetz Wissenschaft e. V.

The main focus of her work as an author, lecturer and trainer is on the personality traits introversion and extraversion as well as their effects on the professional and private life of those affected. In her book Quiet People, Strong Effect , published in 2012, she explores the question of how introverted people can use their special strengths in order to assert themselves and successfully assert themselves in a climate of extraversion.

Publications

  • Quiet people - good life - the development book for introverted personalities , Gabal Verlag, Offenbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-86936-800-9 .
  • Intro, Extro or Centro? , Gabal Verlag, Offenbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-86936-707-1
  • Intros and extros. How they treat each other and how they benefit from each other. , Gabal Verlag, Offenbach 2014. ISBN 978-3-86936-549-7 .
  • Quiet people - strong effect. How to show your presence and be heard. , Gabal Verlag, Offenbach 2012. ISBN 978-3-86936-327-1 .
  • Together with Norbert Brugger: Kommunale Redepraxis , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-555-01430-2 .
  • Deutsche Wortprosodie , Stauffenburg Verlag (Studies on German Grammar Volume 56), Tübingen 1997. ISBN 3-86057-446-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.coachingnetz-wissenschaft.de
  2. ↑ Interview with the Badische Zeitung, May 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Interview with Handelsblatt online, July 30, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Löhken, Sylvia C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author, lecturer and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm