Henning Radke (born 1985) works as a lecturer at the German section of the University of Amsterdam. He teaches courses in sociolinguistics and German as a foreign language. His research interests include second language acquisition, language chance, creole languages, and Germanic languages.
Henning currently writes his PhD on language variation in computer-mediated communication with a special emphasis on the role of multilingual speech acts for the German-Namibian diaspora (supervision: prof. Arjen Versloot, UvA, and prof. Horst Simon, FU Berlin). He is a member of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) and organized the Graduiertenkolleg Routes of Communication between Africa and Europe supported by the Amsterdam Center for German Studies (DIA). He also served as a guest lecturer at the German Section of the University of Namibia (2018).
He holds a Master of Arts in Comparative Linguistics as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Dutch Philology and Communication Science (Freie Universität Berlin). Henning has gained professional experience in five countries: Germany, Namibia, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Suriname. While staying in these countries, he taught German as a foreign language, organized cultural projects, and administered scholarships. He has worked for the German department at the University of Cape Town, the international office of Freie Universität Berlin, and for the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam.
German Language Proficiency: Berlin – a metropole’s history, politics and culture (incl. study excursion to Berlin)