Dr. Mark Mueller

Writings on urban anthropology ("Architektursoziologie" u. "Raumsoziologie"). Arbeiten am Buchprojekt „Die Lyrische Moderne: Autopoetische Sinnwelten und Traumschablonen des Städtischen“. Latest publication: Müller, M. (2018): Die surreale Stadt. Sinnwelten der Moderne und die Horizonte der Weltenmitte. Band I: Weltenbauer und Weltbewohner. Berlin: Urban Ontology. https://www.amazon.de/Die-Surreale-Stadt-Weltenmitte-Weltbewohner/dp/3947734042

Corporate In-house German lessons in Berlin. Freelancing as a language teacher and translator in New York (USA) and Berlin. for 15+ years. Founder of "German Tutor Berlin". Clients: I offer Business German for companies in Berlin. Private intensive one-on-one German coaching. Founder of the tutoring platform: "Germantutor.org".

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter: Datenanalyse und Fortschreibung des Standortentwicklungskonzepts (SEK), GIB-Berlin.

Teaching three different seminars - titles of seminars: “Cyborg City”, “Urban Space and Materiality”, “Life in Space”. Reading in Sociology of Everyday life, Urban Sociology, Chicago-school, Actor-Network-Theory (ANT), Cultural Studies and Urban-Philosophy. The course included field studies, individual presentations and empirical research.

Foundation of a literature salon and radio play association “Central” in Magdeburg/Germany, member of the literary society: “Der Schwarze Schal”, activities in PR and recruitment, marketing, advertising.

Occupation: EU-Research project “Cognitive presentation of urban space – A market analysis of the spatial and functional uses of residential areas”. Working with cognitive maps and narrative interviews. Developing a research design, training local residents in ethnographic methodology, analyzing and presenting the findings.

Occupation: Analyzing quantitative data from hospital services using SPSS and Excel. Qualitative research: developing research design, analyzing drinking habits of children by interviewing kindergarten educators. Visualization and documentation of statistical data.

Five different seminars in: urban sociology, qualitative sociology, symbolic interactionism, micro-sociology, gender studies and a introduction course in descriptive statistic.

Occupation: Research project “Models of teleworking - A quantitative study on ergonomic conditions of teleworking”. Analyzing basic statistical data by using SPSS and Excel.

Ph.D project: "Die Surreale Stadt – Sinnwelten der Moderne zwischen Phantasmagoria und Wirklichkeit” Defense Talk for Dissertation: 03/2015 degree: (Dr. phil.) "summa cum laude"

Visiting Ph.D at Columbia University (NYC), Department for Germanic Languages and Literatures, DAAD Scholarship; field studies for PhD project: "The Surreal City"; book project: "New York: Textures of a dying Modernity"

Affiliated fellow of the “Centre for Metropolitan Studies Berlin New York” at TU-Berlin | Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik

European Masters in Comparative Urban Studies” at the University of Urbino and Milan (Italy) with a focus on urban governance. Thesis: “The Cyborg City. Landscapes of Stories - Artifacts and Socio-Narrative Figurations in Urban Space.” (Grade A).

Langjährige Teilnahme am Forschungskolloquium von Prof. Fritz Schütze mit einem Fokus auf Biographieforschung (autobiographisch-narrative Interviews) und Ethnomethodologie, Kompetenzen: Durchführung und Auswertung narrativer Interviews, Inst. für Mikrosoziologie, OVG-Universität

Master of Arts (Magister Artium) in Sociology, Psychology, Occupational and Economical Studies, grade 1.2 (very good=1.0; failed=6.0), Thesis: “City Planning as a Creation of Urban Reality - A Qualitative Research on Urban Planning Processes” (grade 1.0); 270 CP (ECTS).