Publications
Kritische politische Bildung in der Jugendsozialarbeit.
dreizehn, Zeitschrift für Jugendsozialarbeit 26, S. 23-26.
Zum ArtikelChemsex: Alternative Lesarten eines mediatisierten Phänomens.
In: B. Hoffarth/E. Reuter/S. Richter (Hrsg.): Geschlecht und Medien. Räume, Deutungen, Repräsentationen. Frankfurt, New York: Campus-Verlag, S. 148-168.
Zum Verhältnis von Jugendsozialarbeit, politischer Bildung und Prävention in der Migrationsgesellschaft.
In: A. Keller/A. Pingel/K. Weber/A. Lorenz (Hrsg.): Politische Bildung und Jugendsozialarbeit gemeinsam für Demokratie. Frankfurt a. M.: Wochenschau-Verlag, S. 38-46.
Qualification Project
Flight Without Arrival. Forms of Help as Political Moments in Encounters
This study examines the phenomenon of “flight without arrival” using the example of refugees in Germany. It focuses on the political moments in which refugees develop their own agency despite restrictive migration policies. Based on Hannah Arendt’s concept of politics, which emphasizes collective action and speech among people in relation to a shared world, the study empirically reconstructs how refugees in precarious life situations attempt to establish connections to a common world.
Methodologically, the study draws on Kathy Charmaz’s constructivist Grounded Theory and continuously interrogates the relationship between empiricism and theory. Through problem-centered interviews with refugees from various countries of origin, biographical ruptures and transformation processes are reconstructed—processes that disrupt the “wholeness of life” of those affected and dissolve their previous self-world relationships. In line with theoretical empiricism (Kalthoff/Hirschauer), interpretations are understood as a “conversation” in which theory and empiricism mutually shape and transform each other.
The central findings reveal that help manifests in fleeting moments of interpersonal encounters, which can be described as “narrow bridges.” These bridges emerge when refugees establish connections through collective action and speech.
Academic Career
2014 – 2017
Master Studies Program “Pädagogik und Management in der Sozialen Arbeit [Pedagogy and Management in Social Work]“, Technische Hochschule Cologne
2011 – 2014
Bachelor Studies Program “Social Work”, degree: 2014 (Technische Hochschule Cologne)
Professional Experience
seit 10/2021
Scientific co-worker and doctoral student at the DFG-Research Training Group 2493 “Consequences f social services work”
2017 bis 2021
Teaching assignment for the theory-oriented seminar „Interkulturelle Soziale Arbeit [intercultural social work]“ at the University of Koblenz
2015 bis 2021
Scientific co-worker at the institute for children, youth, family and adults [Institut für Kindheit, Jugend, Familie und Erwachsene]; Focus of Reserach: non-formal education [Nonformale Bildung], Technische Hochschule Cologne
2013 bis 2015
Co-worker at the institute of applied management and organisation in social work [Institut für Angewandtes Management und Organisation in der Sozialen Arbeit (IMOS)], Technische Hochschule Cologne
