Mag. Olena Umlauff
Mag. Olena Umlauff
Where I come from: Kyiv, Ukraine
My language skills: Ukrainian (mother tongue), German (C2), Russian (C2), English (C1), Polish (A2)
My educational background: PhD at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna; studied Theory and History of Literature and Comparative Literature at the
Comparative Literature at the National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy; studied Philology at the National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy.
My professional career: teacher (German as a foreign language) at the secondary school in Crimea; teacher (Ukrainian language and literature) at the Ukrainian Saturday School in Vienna; research assistant at the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Galicia and its multicultural heritage” at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna; coordinator of cultural projects at the Czech Center of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kyiv; head of event management at the bookstore chain “Є”, a company of the ECEM Media Group in Kyiv.
My teaching motto: “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
