Team

Our Teachers:

Pamela Cohn
		Pamela joins the team of the School of Life-Expanded in November 2011 as one of the workshop educators. She holds degrees in poetry, world history, and Italian language and literature (Sarah Lawrence College, New York) and a CELTA certificate from Cambridge University to teach English as a second language. She moved from the US to Berlin in July of 2010 and works as an independent film producer, freelance programmer and arts journalist. She writes a film blog called Still in Motion, and produces and curates an experimental and documentary screening series called Kino Satellite.

Frauke Fuchs
Frauke Fuchs finds great pleasure in British culture, especially film. She is looking forward to guide and instruct on British culture and film with School of Life-expanded where she started in 2011 as workshop educator. Through her interest and work at three different film festivals in Berlin she gained knowledge of film and now wants to work with this flexible medium to broaden understanding and moral. Frauke was born and raised in Berlin but was always interested in English-speaking countries through her Canadian background. She studies American Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ulla Kersten
		Ulla joins the team of the School of Life-expanded in January 2011 as one of the workshop educators. She holds a degree in English and French philology (Humboldt Universtiy) and worked for the tutoring institute “Schülerhilfe“, offering private lessons in English, French and Latin. Since 2010 she is also volunteering for a youth club in Berlin-Lichtenberg, giving private lessons in English. Recently she started working as a freelancer for the Palabea AG, where she creates and manages English, French and Spanish online language courses.

Dr. Fleur Diggines
Dr. Diggines joins ‘School of Life-expanded’ in 2010 as one of the workshop educators and programme assistants. She has many years’ experience of teaching teenagers, developed from lecturing students during her time studying for her PhD. Dr. Diggines is originally from England and now lives in Berlin. She not only brings her native language skills to School of Life-expanded but also her own insight into British culture, and that of neighbouring Ireland. Her enthusiasm for films and their ability to introduce messages to their audiences has led her to be previously involved in an independent film festival focusing on works from Britain and Ireland. The knowledge gained from that experience is incorporated with her educational background to enhance the School of Life-expanded programme.

Administration:

Dagny Kleber, M.A.
Dagny turned professional since she worked for britspotting, Germany’s only British and Irish film festival in Berlin where she curated the short films, established the youth film programme School of Life and improved her organizational talent as festival assistant. After her studies of Media Sciences she set up the new School of Life-expanded programme in corporation with Freie Universität Berlin in 2009. Since January 2010 she is putting all her experience and passion into a new festival, the International Comedy Film Festival Berlin as Head of Programming Europe and Festival Director Assistant. Currently she is also working as festival assistant at Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival and will soon be working for the second time as press coordinator for the Berlinale section Generation.