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Prof. Dr. Andreas Bieberstedt holds the Professorship for Low German Language and Literature at the Institute of German Studies, University of Rostock. He is Managing Director of the Institute of German Studies, Deputy Director of the Center for Regional History and Culture of Mecklenburg, and Co-Director of the inter-university teaching network LeNie (Teaching Low German). He serves on the Advisory Board for Heritage and Low German at Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's ministries of Science, Culture, and Education.
- Education: German Studies, English Studies, and German as a Foreign Language at University of Rostock and University College Cork (Ireland).
- Research Interests: Low German (historical and contemporary), medieval Low German literature (e.g., Reynke Voß, Emsers New Testament), 18th-19th century language development in Mecklenburg, linguistic contact and standardization, lexicography, and Digital Humanities.
His recent work includes the digitalization of the Mecklenburg Dictionary ("Wossidlo-Teuchert online") with funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He co-leads the inter-university LeNie network, which develops cooperative teaching formats for Low German education. The network is supported by the Innovation in Higher Education Foundation until 2026.
LeNie organizes annual Winter Academies (e.g., 2024: "Literature and Media Didactics" at University of Hanover), creates Open Educational Resources (OERs) like podcasts, and focuses on hybrid seminar formats. He has also researched recent dialect change in Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Current doctoral students include Lea-Marie Kenzler and Nico Förster. His exam supervision covers Low German language/literature, dialectology, medieval genres (Ship of Fools, Dance of Death), sociolinguistics (Bernstein, Labov), language contact, and standardization.
