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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Niklas Reinken

Junior Professor

Grammatik für die Schule (JP)
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 1401
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37340

Professional career

  • 06/2014 - 09/2018
    Student (later academic) assistant, Didactic Center of the University of Oldenburg (committee support, conference organization, editing of information material)
  • 07/2016 - 09/2018
    Student (later academic) assistant, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg
  • 10/2018 - 11/2022
    Research assistant, Institute for German Studies at the University of Oldenburg
  • 01/2021 - 10/2021
    Research assistant in the DFG project “Textile Minimalists. Pioneers of Sustainable Practice?” at the Institute for Material Culture at the University of Oldenburg
  • 10/2021 - 03/2022
    Research assistant, Institute for German Studies at the University of Leipzig (substitute)
  • 06/2022 - 09/2022
    Contractor, Didactic Center of the University of Oldenburg (organization of the Pedagogical Week conference and establishment of an information portal on teacher training)
  • 12/2022 - 09/2024
    Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim (third-party funded project LernGrammis)
  • since 10/2024
    Junior Professor of School Grammar, Institute of German Studies, Leipzig University

Education

  • 10/2013 - 09/2016
    Bachelor's program in German Studies / Biology, University of Oldenburg
  • 10/2016 - 09/2018
    Master's program in German Studies / Biology, University of Oldenburg
  • 10/2018 - 10/2021
    PhD program in German Studies, University of Oldenburg

Panel Memberships

  • 01/2015 - 01/2018
    Council of the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Oldenburg
  • 04/2019 - 10/2022
    Admission council for the Master's programme "Language dynamics: acquisition, variation, change" an the University of Oldenburg
  • 04/2019 - 10/2022
    Council of the Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Oldenburg (substitute)
  • 04/2019 - 10/2022
    Academic Commission of the School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg (substitue)
  • 04/2020 - 04/2021
    Examining Board for the teaching degree for grammar school at the University of Oldenburg (substitue)
  • 04/2021 - 10/2022
    School council of the School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg (substitue)
  • 11/2023 - 09/2024
    Worker's Council at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Mannheim
  • German grammar
  • Grammar teaching at school
  • Teaching grammar with online resources
  • Graphematics and orthography
  • Punctuation and punctuation didactics
  • Writing system research
  • Graphetics and Handwriting Research
  • Fuhrhop, N.; Reinken, N.; Schreiber, N. (Eds.)
    Literarische Grammatik. Wie Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft voneinander profitieren können
    Heidelberg: Winter. 2023.
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  • Reinken, N.
    Die Grammatik der Handschriften
    Heidelberg: Winter. 2023.
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  • Fuhrhop, N.; Reinken, N.
    Minimalistischer Orthographieunterricht
    In: Müller, H. G.; Kepser, M.; Schallenberger, S. (Eds.)
    Neue Wege des Orthografieerwerbs. Forschung – Vermittlung – Reflexion. Wien: Lemberger. 2021. pp. 9–21.
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  • Reinken, N.; Antonioli, G.; Schneider, R.
    Grammatikographie für den DaF-Unterricht. Die Online-Ressource LernGrammis als Referenz- und Übungsgrammatik.
    German as a Foreign Language. 2024. pp. 75–99.
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  • Reinken, N.
    Handwritten letters and grammatical structures in German. A framework
    Written Language and Literacy. 2023. 26 (2). pp. 155–187.
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more publications

  • Graphematics – The German Writing System

    • Winter semester 2018/19, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
    • Summer semester 2019, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
    • Winter semester 2019/20, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
    • Summer semester 2021, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
  • Syntax

    • Winter semester 2018/19, University of Oldenburg (seminar and exercise course)
    • Summer semester 2022, University of Oldenburg (seminar and exercise course)
  • Foreign words

    • Winter semester 2020/21, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
  • Cases of doubt in the German language

    • Summer semester 2020, University of Oldenburg (seminar and exercise couse)
    • Summer semester 2022, Leuphana University Lüneburg (seminar)
    • Summer semester 2022, Leuphana University Lüneburg (seminar)
  • Syntax for school

    • Winter semester 2021/22, Leipzig university (seminar and exercise couse)
    • Winter semester 2021/22, Leipzig university (seminar and exercise couse)
  • »The Awful German Language« – Prejudices about the German language and their linguistic basis

    • Summer semester 2022, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
  • Written language in school

    • Winter semester 2022, University of Osnabrück (seminar)
    • Winter semester 2022/23, University of Osnabrück (seminar)
  • Theories of syntax

    • Winter semester 2022/23, University of Oldenburg (seminar)

Research fields

Linguistics, German language and literature

Specializations

  • German grammar

  • Grammar teaching at school

  • Teaching grammar with online resources

  • Graphematics and orthography

  • Punctuation and punctuation didactics

  • Writing system research

  • Graphetics and Handwriting Research

Contact for media inquiries

Phone: +49 341 97-37353
Phone: 0441 / 3618 2244