Ulf Abraham

Ulf Abraham (born in 1954) is a German scholar of German studies and literature education. He studied German and English for secondary-school teaching in Erlangen and Freiburg, completed his teaching traineeship, and worked in schools for four years. He received his doctorate in 1985 with a study of law and guilt in Kafka’s work and completed his habilitation in 1994 on the history and theory of the concept of style in German-language education. Until 2020, Abraham held the chair of German language and literature education at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses include the teaching of literature, film, and writing, as well as the use of images and texts in German classes. He held visiting professorships in Atlanta and Klagenfurt and received the Erhard Friedrich Prize for German-language education in 2014.