Britta Harms awarded the Hamburg Teaching Prize 2024

18 July 2024, by Pamela Sundhausen

Photo: BWFGB/Kirstin Hammerstein

This year's Hamburg Teaching Award ceremony took place on 16 July 2024 in the State and University Library. A total of 13 lecturers from the University of Hamburg were honoured for their outstanding seminars, modules or exercises.
One of the awards went to the IDGS:
Britta Harms was honoured with the Hamburg Teaching Award for her outstanding teaching. Congratulations!

Britta teaches on the sign language interpreting course and is also a qualified Deaf interpreter with the working languages Written German and DGS. She understands the challenges of interpreting between two language modalities and finding the right translation equivalent. As a member of the Deaf communities and an active user of interpreting in her private and professional life, she also brings her own personal perspective on the service of sign language interpreting and the expectations associated with it to her teaching.
In the winter term 2023/24, Britta taught the seminar "Interpreting in theatre" and translated the script of the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin" into DGS with a very motivated group of students. The basis for this was the collaboration between the IDGS and Hamburg's Ohnsorg Theatre. At four performances, the prepared and rehearsed dialogues were simultaneously interpreted on stage into German sign language for the young audience - a complete success for everyone involved.

In 2021, someone from the IDGS team was already among the chosen few to receive the teaching award: Stefan Goldschmidt.

Now we are very happy with Britta for this well deserved award!

Quelle: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/campus/2024/0718-lehrpreis-2024.html