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from Sun, 03/20/2022

Hamburg Teaching Award for HfMT lecturer Catharina Lühr

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The Hamburg Teaching Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, is awarded annually by the Ministry of Science, Research, Equality and Districts (BWFGB) for outstanding and innovative teaching achievements at Hamburg's state universities. A total of 45 lecturers were honored. The right to nominate for the Hamburg Teaching Award lies exclusively with the students.

Catharina Lühr has worked as a freelance choreographer at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, La Scala in Milan, the Zurich Opera House, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Amsterdam, Vienna and Madrid. She has worked with renowned directors such as Jürgen Flimm, Andrea Breth and Christoph Marthaler as well as conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti and Daniel Barenboim.

Catharina Lühr has been a lecturer for movement and body technique in the Dean's Office II for Drama, Singing and Opera since 2008. Her lessons are ideally tailored to the individual needs of singers and actors. She teaches a broad spectrum of diverse forms of movement.

In addition to the professional quality, the extremely positive, motivating atmosphere of the lessons and the individual support depending on the previous knowledge and physical requirements of the respective students should be mentioned. Right at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ms Lühr was one of the first teachers to develop a concept for holding her lessons in digital form during the semester break in March last year.

She expanded her teaching offer and taught five days instead of three during the lockdown periods and even several weeks into the following semester break. By never breaking off contact with her students, but on the contrary intensifying it, Catharina Lühr helped many for whom the times of lockdown were an enormously stressful psychological experience not to lose heart and stay on the ball.
Catharina Lühr is also Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer.

Science Senator Katharina Fegebank comments:
"Lecturers play a very special role in the lives of young people. In the past two years in particular, they have achieved outstanding things under particularly challenging conditions. Digital and hybrid teaching required a great deal of improvisation, creativity and innovative solutions. We all owe them our thanks for this. The winners of the Hamburg Teaching Award are making learning fun with new formats. They impress with their great expertise, actively seek dialog and inspire enthusiasm for their subject. Their commitment is an outstanding example of excellent teaching and an enrichment for our science location. I would like to congratulate you all on this well-deserved award!"

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