Vita

Marion Welsch M.A.

 

Author, editor, moderator, teacher, coach for biographical and creative writing

 

Born in Bad Hersfeld

 

Abitur at the Hermann-Lietz-Schule Schloss Hohenwehrda

 

Studied in Münster, Göttingen and Berlin

 

Long-standing practice for LERNKULTUR, learning therapy and school career counseling

 

2005 Author of „Sprich mit mir (Talk to me)

 

2005-2008 Worked for the Deutsche Kinder und Jugendstiftung to improve schools

 

2008 Co-author of „Die Schule gesund machen (Making the school healthy)

 

2007-2009 Master of Science in Biographical and Creative Writing at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin

 

2009-2014 Director of the international education and meeting center Schloss Gollwitz in Brandenburg/Havel

 

2010 Publisher of „Die Wahrheit singen (Singing the truth)

 

BAMF-certified teacher for DAF/DAZ since 2015, German courses, organization of projects with refugees, qualification for volunteers and teachers on the subject of literacy and basic education

 

2016 Founding member and activities for Margarete Junge Gesellschaft e.V. and IntegrationsConcept e.V.

 

2016 Publisher of „Margarete Junge. Künstlerin und Lehrerin im Aufbruch in die Moderne (Margarete Junge. Artist and teacher at the dawn of modernity)

 

2017-2020 Literacy courses for refugee mothers with babies and toddlers.

 

2020-2021 Establishment of a basic education center (GBZ) in Potsdam-Mittelmark

2022 Learning support in the GBZ

 

Married, three grown-up daughters

AWARDS

Marion Welsch is the winner of the Obermayer Award 2023