Our Team
Founder
Friederike Knüpling
Ph.D Stanford
Friederike has almost a decade of teaching experience in language, literary history and writing at LALIA Berlin, Stanford University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Humboldt Universität of Berlin.
She holds a Ph.D in German Studies from Stanford University and has published about sports culture, gender and feminism, as well as everyday culture. She is thrilled about Berlin as a hub for multilingual, pluralistic discourse.
Founder
Idan Gillo
Ph.D Stanford
Idan holds a Ph.D in German Studies from Stanford University, where he taught German language and literature for seven years before he began teaching at LALIA Berlin and at Humboldt Universität of Berlin.
He has published articles about German literature, culture and history, and is passionate about language learning and teaching.