Dr. Jaiser is a DAAD Lektor at the School of Applied Humanities and Languages ​​at the German Jordanian University. He is an Assistant Professor as well as a Coordinator of the Master Program German as a Foreign Language “DaF”.

Dr. Jaiser was born in 1966 in Stuttgart. He studied German Studies and Linguistics and did his PhD in 1998 at the University of Stuttgart about “Carl Maria von Weber als Writer”. He worked at the Foreign Office at the University of Stuttgart from 2001 till 2003. He was a DAAD lektor in Jakarta, Indonesia (2003-2009) and in Hanoi, Vitenam (2010-2015) and since 2017 he has been a DAAD lektor in Amman, Jordan.

Klaus Wieland studied German, French and sociology in Munich, Paris, Berlin and Strasbourg. He graduated at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with a Magister Artium and a PhD, followed by the Agrégation and habilitation at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Since 2021, Klaus Wieland has been a DAAD lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches German language and literature. Previously, he worked at various universities in Canada and France, most recently as Maître de conférences at the Université de Strasbourg (on leave since 2021). In the summer term 2021, he held the Marc Bloch Chair at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.

His research focuses on 20th century German literature, gender / queer studies, and the cultural memory of Nazi fascism.

Hanna Schweitzer obtained both a bachelor’s degree in Arab and Islamic studies in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in romance studies in 2021 from the University of Leipzig. She then went on to do a master’s degree in history and sociology of the Middle East in the University of Erfurt. She is currently writing her master’s thesis while working as a DAAD language and research assistant at the German Jordanian University in Madaba, Jordan.

Dr. Ortrun Hanna has been a DAAD Lecturer at the School of Applied Humanities and Social Sciences at the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Amman/Madaba since September 2024. She has many years of experience in teaching German as a foreign language and in the master’s training of GFL teachers and has managed corresponding institutions in Germany and abroad. In 1999 she received her doctor’s degree at the University of Dortmund in linguistics on the topic of university communication in mechanical engineering. She was a research assistant at the University of Dortmund, a GFL teacher at the preparatory college of the ÖSW in Bochum, DAAD Lecturer at the University of Helwan (Egypt), Director of the Language and Cultural Centre of the German University in Cairo (GUC), Head of the Department of German as a Foreign Language as well as the Language Centre at TU Braunschweig, Dean of the School of Languages at the German Jordanian University in Jordan and DAAD Lecturer at the German Department of the Faculty of Education and at the Centre of Excellence for Study and Research in German and Arabic as a Foreign Language (EZ-DAAF) at Ain Shams University in Cairo. Her areas of specialty include pragmatics, technical and scientific language as well as didactics and methodology of German as a foreign language.

Anna Kloska has been working since September 2019 as a DAAD Lecturer at the Department of German Language at the Salahaddin University in Erbil, Irak.

In 2021 she completed her Masters’s Degree (M.A.) in German Language and Literature.

Ms. Kloska then studied German as a Foreign Language for the purpose of teaching at the Ruhr-University of Bochum until 2003.

From 2003 till 2008 she was teaching German as a Foreign Language in Germany and since 2008 abroad, in Jordan and India.

From 2013 till 2015 Ms. Kloska was DAAD Lecturer in Algeria, Oran and between 2016 – 2019 at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, supporting during that time the work at the German Department of the Salahaddin University Erbil, Irak.

Markus Schmitz is a comparativist trained in Middle Eastern Studies and English Literary and Cultural Studies. Before he joined German Jordanian University’s School of Applied Humanities and Social Sciences as Associate Professor and DAAD Long-term Lecturer he was Senior Lecturer at Münster University, Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, and DAAD Visiting Professor and Academic Consultant at Lebanese University’s Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Beirut. His research revolves around (Anglophone) Arab Representations, Relational Diasporic Formations, Theories of Cross-Cultural Comparison, Forced Migration and Border Regimes. Publications include Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum: Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation (2008), Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking (Ed. 2013) and Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations (2020). His current research project is a comparative study on Middle Eastern refugee imaginaries.