| Prof Joachim Hans-Volker Gretschel |
| DPhil (German Literature) Universität Bremen, Germany 1992
MA (German Literature) University of Pretoria, South Africa 1974
BEd University of Pretoria, South Africa 1974 HED (Higher Education Diploma) University of Pretoria, South Africa 1970. |
| Professor |
Main Campus, Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue, Windhoek
Block Y, Room Y048 |
Phone: +264 61 206 3856
Fax: +264 61 206 3806 |
| hgretschel@unam.na |
| Prof Gretschel is a Namibian with over thirty years of experience in the education sector in Namibia. He has been involved in teacher education, the teaching of German as first as well as German as a foreign language for the past twenty five years and is examiner as well as moderator for the German NSSC examinations on Higher and Ordinary levels. Recently he has been involved in the training of professional translators for Namibia. He is a Professor for German in the Department of Language and Literature Studies and served as Dean for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2005 until 2007. For his long and dedicated service to the German language in Namibia Prof Gretschel received the prestigious price “Projekt Lilie in Gold”. He is Vice-President of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa (SAGV) and is a member of the panel of referees of the Association’s publication “Acta Germanica”. |
| Post resume/vita document |
| On sabbatical leave during 2008
Translation First Language – Mother Tongue
Modern German Literature and Culture
German-African Relations
German Cultural History
Business Communication in German Business German |
| “Südwesterdeutsch” The German spoken by German speaking Namibians
“Kampwitwen” The history of German speaking wives whose husbands were interned in South African camps during World War II
German Colonial Literature The “Trekboer” in southern Namibia |
Books:
2009 H-V Gretschel. “Kampwitwen und Kampwaisen” working title: to be published during 2009 by the Klaus A. Hess-Verlag.
Articles:
2008 H-V Gretschel. “Wenn du einen Hund einmal geschlagen hast, brauchst du ihm nur die Peitsche zu zeigen” Zum Tode des Literatur-nobelpreisträgers Alexander Solschenizyn (1918 bis 2008). Felsgraffiti, Windhoek.
2007 H-V Gretschel. Die deutschsprachigen Namibier und ihre Sprache. Berliner Gazette. Cultural online magazine Berlin.
Conference Papers:
2008 H-V Gretschel. “Wer hat Anspruch auf das Land?” Paper presented to the members of the Universitätschor Bremen. Windhoek September 2008.
2008 H-V Gretschel. “Eine Frage der Zeit” oder die “unendliche Fahrt der Liemba”. Paper presented at the annual conference for Namibian teachers at Arandis. July 2008.
2007/2008 H-V Gretschel “Die deutsche Sprache in Namibia”. Paper presented to new seconded German teachers to the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule Windhoek. Windhoek February 2007/2008.
2007 H-V Gretschel. “Jürgen Leskiens Tagebuchroman ‘Einsam in Südwest’”. Paper presented at the 23rd Conference of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa (SAGV), Johannesburg 2007.
2007 H-V Gretschel. “Gustav Frenssens Peter Moors Fahrt nach Südwest. Eine Fahrt in ein dunkles Kapitel deutscher Geschichte.”
Paper presented at the annual conference for Namibian teachers at Arandis. July 2007 |
Recent Professional Activities
2008 and ongoing: H-V Gretschel, Ch Chlosta, T Ostermann, Ch Schroeder. Research project in cooperation with the Universität Duisburg-Essen and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the GIP-Programm (Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft).
2007/2008 H-V Gretschel. Organiser of the Conference for teachers in the subject German as a foreign language in Arandis and presenter of workshops to prepare teachers for the NSSC Higher Level Paper 3/Literature. |
