My name is Alexander Gahr and I was born on September 9, 1980 in Detmold, Germany.
Studies
Presently, I am studying a doctorate at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
From 2004 to 2008 I studied in Spain Translation and Interpreting at the University of Málaga for Spanish, French, German, Modern Greek.
I studied my last academic year at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where I live now.
In 2007, I spent a semester as an Erasmus student at the Ionian University in Corfu (Greece).
In 2006, I completed the course Teaching Spanish as foreign language at the University of Málaga.
In September 2008, I attended the international symposium “Cities – Languages – Cultures“, which was organized by the Goethe-Institut, the Institute for the German Language (IDS) and the Duden editorial in Mannheim, Germany.
Professional experience
— as a language teacher (principally for German as a foreign language):
- In March of 2011, I appeared in the news of Canary Island TV in a reportage about German students in Gran Canaria.
- 2010-2011: Faculty for Translation and Interpretation (German Language and General Translation DE-ES) and Faculty for Health Sciences (English for Health Sciences) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria;
- 2009-2011: Tourism Office of Gran Canaria through The Yeats Irish Academy (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (LPGC)): German for tourism;
- 2009-2011: General Steward School (LPGC): German in general and for plane/ship/conventions;
- 2010: International Politechnical Centre (LPGC): German for beginners;
- 2009-2011: J. Á. Cid Ruzafa (LPGC): German for unemployees (i. e. for the Canarian employment agency (Servicio Canario de Empleo) „German for public attendance“);
- 2009: Language lab of the Universitary Foundation of Las Palmas (FULP) (LPGC): German course for future Erasmus students;
- 2007-2008: Formation Center Unibelia (LPGC): lessons of German and Spanish for foreigners;
- 2007: Liceo 2000 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (LPGC)): German lessons;
- 2006-2007: Hélice & Partners (Málaga): German lessons and planning of German courses for tourism and hospitals;
- 2004-2007: Deutsch-Schule (Málaga): German courses for all levels and areas.
- Collaboration in the website Gramática Alemana concerning development of exercises and texts, translation and correction.
— as a translator (ES/PT/EL/EN/FR>DE):
- Since 2010 I am working as a freelance translator and proofreader for BEO;
- since 2009: Tourism Office of Gran Canaria;
- since 2008: euroscript (Berlin; legal and technical texts);
- translation of websites, i. e. Gaona Abogados, endeve, keyose, becker24 and Monza360.
- I have also translated texts concerning domains such as work risk-prevention (for Previsegur), contracts and a part of a BOE (for Polinter, langXpress and Vasold & Mayer), about art (by Stefan von Reiswitz), music, newspaper articles and curricula vitae.
Language knowledge
I speak the following languages (the levels are indicated according to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages):
- German: native language
- Spanish: language of all daily contacts and dealings (see Studies)
- English: Effective Operational Proficiency, written and spoken (C1)
- French: Effective Operational Proficiency, written and spoken (C1)
- Modern Greek: Operational Proficiency, written and spoken (C1)
- [Diplome: Πιστοποιητικό Ελληνομάθειας, level A]
- Portuguese: Independent User (Threshold B1)
- Italian: Independent User (Threshold B1)
- Turkish: Beginner (A1)
- I am also studying Mandarin, Romanian and Dutch.
Interests
- Learning languages
- Quality enhancement of German teaching by developping new didactic material
- (general, comparative) linguistics, orthography, etymology
- Comparing translations
- Furtherance and diffusion of linguistical correctness and adecuacy
- Books, linguistic studies
- cinema
- Listening and making music
CURRICULUM VITÆ
en español (general | traducción), Lebenslauf A.Gahr, in English.
German course at Aula de Idiomas, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. (Click for full-size view.)
