Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Paul A. Hoegger is teacher and coordinator for German at the Language Centre of the University of Cambridge. In addition to teaching at ICE, since 2004 Paul has been working as a language supervisor for all levels of the German degree course at several colleges of Cambridge University. He also lectures for the German Department of Cambridge University. Since 2009 he has been setter and principal examiner for the German Pre-U paper at University of Cambridge International Examinations. Paul is Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Originally from Bern in Switzerland, Paul moved to Germany in his late teens. After a career as a ballet dancer and later as a newsreader for the German World Service he moved to Cambridge to study Modern and Medieval Languages at King’s College Cambridge. He holds a BA in French and German and an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Cambridge and has been researching eighteenth-century German drama for his PhD project at the German department of Cambridge University.
Paul's courses are designed to immerse one not only in the German language, but also in the literature and culture of German speaking countries. Discussions in the weekend courses are held entirely in German and are based either on set literary texts, for the Advanced level, or, they are topic based for the intermediate level.
I am currently researching the poetry of Wilhelm Müller, author of ‘Die Winterreise’, for a lecture series at the Faculty of Music of the University of Cambridge.
Paul is currently developing a new Advanced Plus level course (C1-C2 on the CEFR) called German through film and literature as part of the Cambridge University Language Programme (CULP).
