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Faculty of Humanities
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About the Faculty

Faculty Administration

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Faculty Manager

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Christoph Rettberg

Faculty Manager
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 223
Tel: +49 40 42838-4003
Office hours
  • Tue–Thu

Dean's Front Office

Dorothea Blumenberg

Dean's Front Office
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 237, Main Building
Tel: +49 40 42838-7927
Deputy: Aleksandra Ostrowska, M.A.
Office hours
  • Mon–Wed
Key aspects of activity
  • Professorships pursuant to Section 17
  • Teaching duty control
  • Faculty committee
  • Research semesters, leaves of absence
  • International affairs (u.a. Visiting Scholar Status, Memorandum of understanding)
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Aleksandra Ostrowska, M.A.

Dean's Front Office
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 237, Main Building
Tel: +49 40 42838-7927
Deputy: Dorothea Blumenberg
Office hours
  • Tue–Thu
Key aspects of activity
  • Large equipment applications
  • Faculty council
  • Early career support (esp. Material resources of the Graduate School, Doctoral colloquia, Karl H. Ditze Foundation)
  • Records management
  • Statistics

Assistant to the Dean

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Nicole Nitschke, M.A.

Assistant to the Dean, Head of the Dean's Front Office
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 236, Main Building
Tel: +49 40 42838-8221
Key aspects of activity
  • Academic searches
  • Junior professorship evaluations
  • Teaching duty reductions
  • Honorary doctorates
  • Habilitationen
  • Capacity calculation
  • Workload-oriented resource distribution procedure (LOMI)
  • Karl H. Ditze Foundation

Communication

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Zsuzsa Becker, M.A.

Communication and Committees
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 242, Main Building
Tel: +49 40 42838-9090
Key aspects of activity
  • Committes (esp. meetings of the Office of the Dean)
  • Communication
  • Event organization
  • External-funding notifications
  • Faculty homepage and newsletter
  • Knowledge exchange
  • Project management
  • Public relations
  • Reports

Head Office for Academic Affairs

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Dr. Bernd Struß

Head of the Head Office for Academic Affairs
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 240, Main Building
Tel: +49 40 42838-3849
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Dr. Barbara Scharf-Bluhm

Degree Program Evaluation / Academic Affairs (central services)
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 241, Main Building
Tel: +49 40 42838-8773

Doctoral Studies Office

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Zerrin Eren

Doctoral Examinations in the Faculty (PhD degrees)
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 312
Tel: +49 40 42838-8284
Deputy: Catrin Holdorf
Office hours
  • Wed: 10 am–noon and by appointment
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Catrin Holdorf

Doctoral Examinations in the Faculty (PhD degrees)
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 312
Tel: +49 40 42838-9882
Deputy: Zerrin Eren
Office hours
  • Wed: 10 am–noon and by appointment

Faculty Management

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Jelena Buzuk

Human Resources
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 221
Tel: +49 40 42838-7931
Deputy: Viviana Feuerlein (née Ballaera), M.A., Angela Beelte
Office hours
  • Mon–Fri
Key aspects of activity
  • SLM I
  • SLM II
  • History
  • Religions
  • Faculty central
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Angela Beelte

Human Resources
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 220
Tel: +49 40 42838-6232
Deputy: Jelena Buzuk, Viviana Feuerlein (née Ballaera), M.A.
Office hours
  • Mon–Thu
Key aspects of activity
  • Protestant Theology
  • Philosophy
  • Cultural Studies
  • Asia-Africa Studies

Viviana Feuerlein (née Ballaera), M.A.

Human Resources
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 225
Tel: +49 40 42838-9914
Deputy: Angela Beelte, Jelena Buzuk
Office hours
  • Wed–Fri
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Merle Berliner

Financial Resources
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 225
Tel: +49 40 42838-4050
Deputy: Catrin Holdorf, für Lehraufträge: Nicole Erdmann
Office hours
  • Mon–Fri
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Robert Steiner, M.Sc.

Resource Controlling Management
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 222
Tel: +49 40 42838-5427
Office hours
  • Mon–Fri

Building Management

Nicole Erdmann

Building Management
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 224
Tel: +49 40 42838-4044
Deputy: Nicole Nitschke, M.A., for teaching contracts: Merle Berliner
Office hours
  • Building Management: Mon–Thu
  • Teaching Contracts: Wed, Fri
Key aspects of activity
  • Building Management of the Faculty
  • Teaching contracts

Student employees

Alina Burmester

Student Employee
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 312

Mika van den Kerkhoff

Student Employee
Faculty of Humanities
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 224
Tel: +49 40 42838-4092
Office hours
  • Mon, Wed, Fri

Gleichstellung

Dr. Merle-Marie Kruse

Equal Opportunity Advisor
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 130 (Hauptgebäude)
Tel: +49 40 42838-9028
Office hours
  • by appointment via email
Key aspects of activity
  • Coordination of equal opportunity measures at the faculty
  • Reporting
  • Equal opportunity fund of the faculty
  • Career advancement of female scientists at the faculty
  • Reconciliation of work/study and family
  • Diversity and anti-discrimination
  • Event organization
  • Communication and networking
  • Web presence of the equal opportunities department of the faculty