Barbara Schiele

schiele@tolerance-net.org

Barbara Schiele was born in 1964 in Munich. She studied "German as a Foreign Language", Spanish and "German and Comparative Cultural Studies" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In her final diploma-work (1994) she compared the description of pictures under intercultural comparative aspects.

During her studies she was involved in practical work with foreigners, offering consulting hours for foreign students and organizing a day against xenophobia at the university.
After her practical training at the University of Sevilla, Spain (1991), she taught German to foreigners freelancing at different institutions (Tandem e.V., Carl-Duisberg-Sprachcolleg, adult education centers, Goethe-Institut) since 1992.

From 1996 to 2000 Barbara was working in a project of courses for women, organized by the "Initiativgruppe e.V., Verein für interkulturelle Begegnung und Zusammenarbeit". These courses aim at giving foreign women living in Germany a professional orientation and integrating them into society.

Between 2000 and 2003 Barbara worked as a project assistant for Viola Georgi at the Center for Applied Policy Research, supporting the work of the International Network "Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance".