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Previous award winners

Here you will find an overview of all lecturers who have been awarded the University of Graz Teaching Prize in recent years.

Teaching Award: 

Ella Breitfuß, BSc MSc; Fabian Veider, BSc MSc (Institute of Environmental Systems Science) – Exercises on USW Computational Basics
 

Honourary Awards

Assoc. Prof. Dr. phil. Eva Pölzl-Stefanec (Institute for Educational Research and Teacher Training) – Practical Reflection and Pedagogical Professionalisation

 

Mag. Wolfgang Braza; Mag. Christoph Kreuz (Institute for Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law) – Advanced Insolvency and Restructuring Law

 

Further information on the 2024/25 Teaching Award

  • Jury’s statement on the Recognition Awards
  • Jury’s Statement on the Teaching Award
  • Teaching Award video: Ella Breitfuß and Fabian Veider
  • Uni News: Code with Character
2025 Teaching Award Ceremony
ÖH Chair Mary Weitzer and Ida Edlinger-Pammer, Teaching Award winners Fabian Veider and Ella Breitfuß, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left)
Teaching Award Ceremony 2025
ÖH Chair Mary Weitzer and Ida Edlinger-Pammer, Recognition Award winners Eva Pölzl-Stefanec, Christoph Kreuz and Wolfgang Braza, and Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left)

Teaching Award: Lecture Category

Prof. Dr. phil. Lars Eichen (Institute for Educational Research and Teacher Training) – Educational Psychology


Teaching Award: Category ‘Course with Integrated Assessment’

Mag.a Dr.inphil. Lydia Arantes (Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology) – Writing in the Cultural Studies
 

Recognition Awards

Mag.a Anja Krasser, LL.M. (Institute for Public Law and Political Science) – Constitutional Law 2: Fundamental Rights and the Protection of Fundamental Rights

Beate Klösch, BA BSc MA; Rebecca Wardana, BA MA (Institute of Sociology) – Research Placement II (Environmental Movements)

 

Further information on the 2023/24 Teaching Award

  • Nominations
  • Jury
  • Jury’s reasons
  • Teaching Award video: Lars Eichen
  • Teaching Award video: Lydia Arantes
ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winner Lars Eichen, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: Majda Pasalic
ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winner Lars Eichen, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: Majda Pasalic
ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winner Lydia Arantes, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: Majda Pasalic
ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winner Lydia Arantes, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: Majda Pasalic
ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Recognition Award winners Beate Klösch, Rebecca Wardana and Anja Krasser, and Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: Majda Pasalic
ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, award recipients Beate Klösch, Rebecca Wardana and Anja Krasser, and Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left to right). Photos: Majda Pasalic

Teaching Award: Lecture Category

Prof. Jörg Feldmann, Dipl.-Chem., Dr.; Assoc. Prof. Torsten Mayr, Dipl.-Chem., Dr.; Dr Silvia Wehmeier (Institute of Chemistry) – Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry
Teaching Award

: Category: Course with Integrated Assessment

Dr Susanne Kamsker, BSc MSc; Associate Professor Dr Elisabeth Riebenbauer (Institute of Business Education) – Subject Didactics 1: Lesson Planning and Digital Media
 

Recognition Awards

Dr Sandra Grinschgl (Institute of Psychology) – Advanced Course in Differential Psychology (Individual Differences in a Technology-Driven World)

Jennifer Möhrke, MA; Mag. Dr Dirk Raith; Philipp Wilfinger, BSc MA; Anna Wilhelm, MA (Institute for Environmental Systems Sciences) – IP: A Life Free from the Pressure to Grow – Degrowth in the Economy and Society

 

Further information on the 2022/23 Teaching Award

  • Nominations
  • Jury
  • Jury’s reasons
  • Teaching Award video: Jörg Feldmann, Torsten Mayr, Silvia Wehmeier
  • Teaching Award video: Susanne Kamsker, Elisabeth Riebenbauer
  • Press report
ÖH Chair Stefan Zeiringer, Deputy ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winners Susanne Kamsker and Elisabeth Riebenbauer, and Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: University of Graz/Vilgut ©Uni Graz/Vilgut
©Uni Graz/Vilgut
ÖH Chair Stefan Zeiringer, Deputy ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winners Susanne Kamsker and Elisabeth Riebenbauer, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: University of Graz/Vilgut
ÖH Chair Stefan Zeiringer, Deputy ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winners Jörg Feldmann, Silvia Wehmeier and Torsten Mayr, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: University of Graz/Vilgut ©Uni Graz/Vilgut
©Uni Graz/Vilgut
ÖH Chair Stefan Zeiringer, Deputy ÖH Chair Maja Höggerl, Teaching Award winners Jörg Feldmann, Silvia Wehmeier and Torsten Mayr, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left) Photos: University of Graz/Vilgut
Awards for Sandra Grinschgl (3rd from the left) and for Anna Wilhelm and Dirk Raith (2nd and 1st from the right). Photo: University of Graz/Vilgut ©Uni Graz/Vilgut
©Uni Graz/Vilgut
Awards for Sandra Grinschgl (3rd from the left) and for Anna Wilhelm and Dirk Raith (2nd and 1st from the right). Photo: University of Graz/Vilgut

Teaching Award: Lecture Category

Mag. Dr Jörg Schrittwieser (Institute of Chemistry) – Organic Chemistry 1

Teaching Award: Course-Integrated Assessment Category

Barbara Grabher, PhD (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology) – Thinking about the Anthropocene through Events (Negotiations of political-ecological transformation processes in the context of major events)

Honourary Awards

Silvia Lipp, BSc MSc (Institute of Business Education) – Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics

Mag.a Dr.in Barbara Reiter (Institute of Philosophy) – Fundamental Questions of Subject Didactics in Ethics Teaching

 

Further information on the 2021/22 Teaching Award

  • Nominations
  • Jury
  • Jury’s reasons
  • Teaching Award video: Barbara Grabher
  • Teaching Award video: Jörg Schrittwieser
  • Video recording of the awards ceremony
  • Press report
Teaching Award for Jörg Schrittwieser (2nd from the left) ©Uni Graz/Schweiger
©Uni Graz/Schweiger
ÖH Chair Sarah Rossmann, Teaching Award winner Jörg Schrittwieser, Deputy ÖH Chair Michael Pucher, Vice-Rector Walter-Laager (from left)
Award in recognition of Barbara Reiter (second from the right) ©Uni Graz/Schweiger
©Uni Graz/Schweiger
Award in recognition of Barbara Reiter (2nd from the right)
Award in recognition of Silvia Lipp (second from the right) ©Uni Graz/Schweiger
©Uni Graz/Schweiger
Award in recognition of Silvia Lipp (second from the right)

Teaching awards

Mag. Christoph Romirer, MA (Institute of Public Law and Political Science) - Administrative Law and Administrative Theory

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sandro Manuel Keller (Institute of Molecular Biosciences) - Physical Chemistry for Students of Molecular Biology

Digital Teaching Award

Mag.a Victoria Eibinger (Institute of English Studies) - English for Academic Purposes

Recognition prizes

Elena Stuhlpfarrer, BA BA MA (Institute of Educational Science) - Scientific work

Christopher Pollin, BA MA MA (Center for Information Modeling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities) - Basic Issues in Computer Science

 

Further information on the 2020/21 teaching award

  • Nominations
  • The Jury
  • Jury statements
  • Teaching award video Sandro Keller
  • Teaching award video Christoph Romirer
  • Interview with the award winners

Teaching awards

Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Ulich Foelsche (Institute of Physics) - Introduction to Meteorology and Climate Physics

Assoc. Prof. MMag. DDr. Jürgen Pirker (Institute of Public Law and Political Science) - Constitutional Law and General Political Science

Digital Teaching Award

Dr. Gernot Dreisiebner, BSc MSc MSc; Silvia Lipp, BSc MSc; Dr. Franz-Karl Skala (Institute of Business Education) - Didactics and design of business subjects

Recognition prizes

Paige Baralija, BA MA (Department of English Studies) - Language Productive and Receptive Skills

Mag.a Florika Griessner (Institute for Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies) - Italian: Basic Translational Competence II - Oral Text Competence

Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Walter Iber (Institute of Economic, Social and Business History) - Selected topics in economic history

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Georg Jäger (Institute of Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research)-Systems Science 2

MMag.a Dr.in Marlene Peinhopf (Institute for Legal Studies) - Roman Law

Dr. Patrick Schuchter & Assoc. Prof. Dr. Klaus Wegleitner (Institute for Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology) - Care Ethics and Politics of Care

Ao. Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Brigitte Spreitzer-Fleck (Department of German Studies) - Bachelor's seminar for Module 3 (Emotions in Medieval Literature)

Mag. Dr. Georg Weidacher (Department of German Studies) - Text Linguistics


Further information on the Teaching Award 2019/20

  • Teaching award nominations 2019/20
  • Jury 2019/20
  • Jury statements: Main prize winners 2019/20
  • Teaching award clip: Introduction to meteorology and climate physics (Ulrich Foelsche)
  • Teaching prize clip: Constitutional law and general political science (Jürgen Pirker)

Teaching Award

Ao.Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Nora Melzer-Azodanloo (Institute for Labor Law and Social Law) - Current problems in working life and diversity

Digital Teaching Award

Dr. MonikaStromberger (Department of History) - Introduction to Social Studies

 

Further information on the 2018/19 teaching award

  • Reasons for the 2018/19 teaching award
  • Teaching award nominations 2018/19

Teaching Award

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pferschy, Dr. Joachim Schauer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmickl, Martin Stefanec(Institute of Statistics and Operations Research / Biology) - Quantitative Research Methods I (Complex Systems: Behavior and Decision-Making in Nature)


Further information on the 2017/18 teaching prize

  • Explanation of the teaching award
  • Teaching Award nominations 2017/18

Martina Friesenbichler, Dr. Ulrike-MariaGelbmann, Lisa Weichsler, Thomas Winkler, MSc PhD(Institute for Economic, Social and Business History) - IP - The 'global' T-shirt

Ao.Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Paletta & Mag. Dr. Gerald Payer (Institute ofSport Science) - Seminar Sport Pedagogy & Practical School Methodology Exercises IV (course cooperation)

Mag.a Dr. YvonneVölkl (Institute ofRomance Studies) - General KW: Intercultural Communication


Further information on the Teaching Award 2016/17

  • Explanation of the teaching award 2016/17
  • Teaching award clip The global T-shirt
  • Teaching award clip Sports pedagogy & practical methodical school exercises
  • Teaching award clip Intercultural communication
  • Teaching Award nominations 2016/17

Prof. Dr. Christian Aschauer & Prof. Dr. BettinaNunner-Krautgasser(Institute for Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law) - Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Prof. Dr. Annette Sprung & Dr. BrigitteKukovetz, Mag. Lisa Paleczek, Mag. Christina Gimplinger, Dr. Ines Findenig, Mag. Christina Pernsteiner, Dr. Clemens Wieser, Mag. Clemens Wieser, Mag. Simon Reisenbauer, Mag.a Edvina Besic(Institute for Education and Educational Science) - Professional field Migration - Flight - Asylum

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann & Petra Wlasak,MA MSc (Institute ofGeography and Spatial Research) - Geographical excursion: Migrants in Austria

Assoc. Prof. Dr. UllaKriebernegg (Department ofAmerican Studies) - Literary Studies PS: Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women on the Road in American Film and Fiction

 

Further information on the 2015/16 teaching award

  • Explanation of the 2015/16 teaching award
  • Teaching Award nominations 2015/16

Teaching awards

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Garber, Dr. Peter Kirsch & Ass.-Prof. Dr. Ulfried Terlitza(Institute for Civil Law, Foreign and Private International Law) - Civil Law Litigation Training - Seminar on the Moot Court in Civil Law 2015

Dr. Ulrike-MariaGelbmann, Mag.a Barbara Hammerl & Dr. Anton Peskoller(Institute for Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research) - IP Sustainability Groups in Graz

Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Elisabeth Riebenbauer & Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Michaela Stock(Institute for Business Education) - Practice Enterprise

 

Recognition prizes

Mag.a Eva Feenstra (Department ofRomance Studies) - Span. Subject didactic proseminar (La memoria histórica en la clase de ELE)

Dr. ElkeLackner (now Höfler)(Department of Romance Studies) - General didactic proseminar (Foreign Language Teaching 2.0: Social Media, OER & Co)

 

Further information on the 2014/15 teaching prize

  • Explanation of the teaching award 2014/15
  • Teaching award clip IP sustainability groups in Graz
  • Teaching award clip Civil Law Litigation Training - Seminar on the Moot Court from Civil Law 2015
  • Teaching award clip Practice firm
  • Teaching award nominations

Dr. Cristina BorgoniGoncalves (Department ofPhilosophy) - Philosophy of Mind

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Moebius (Department ofSociology) - Sociological Theory I

Elisabeth Scherr, MA (Department ofGerman Studies) - Pragmatics and Variety Linguistics (Standard Variation of German)

 

Further information on the 2013/14 teaching prize

  • Reasons for the 2013/14 teaching award
  • Teaching award nominations 2013/14

Teaching awards

Christian Felber, Christian Kozina(Institute for Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research), Dr. Karl Kumpfmüller, MA (Institute for Economic, Social and Business History) - IP Economy for the Common Good: The Economic Model of the Future?

Dr. BeateFlath (University of Paderborn), Dr. Eva Klein(Styrian Art History Research Centre) - Transdisciplinary lecture series on aspects of the everyday phenomenon of advertising (held for theInstitute of Musicology)

 

Recognition awards

Dr.Armina Galijaš, Dr. Hrvoje Paić(Center for Southeast European Studies) - Lecture series : Sport and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia (held for the Institute for Austrian, European and Comparative Public Law, Political Science and Public Administration)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek, Dr. Christoph Pinter, Mag. Stefan Salomon(International Law and International Relations) - Graz Refugee Law Clinic

Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Deutschmann, Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günther Höfler, Assoz. Prof.in Dr.in Hildegard Kernmayer, Ao.Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Susanne Knaller, Ao.Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Erna Pfeiffer, Dr.in Doris Pichler, Ao.Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Astrid Poier-Bernhard, Dr.in Alexandra Strohmaier, MA, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Robert Vellusig & O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Werner Wolf (Institute of Slavic Studies / Institute of German Studies / Center for Cultural Studies / Institute of Romance Studies ) - AVL Lecture Series Perspectives (not only) on Texts: Transdisciplinary Concepts in Literary Studies

Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Ulla Kriebernegg(Department of American Studies) - Literary Studies Proseminar (Locating Life: The Representation of Aging and Identity in US-American and Canadian Fiction


Further information on the Teaching Award 2012/13

  • Reasons for the Teaching Award 2012/13
  • Teaching Award nominations 2012/13

Teaching prizes

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Reinhard Alkofer, Dr. Leonid Glozman, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Pötz, Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Schweiger(Institute of Physics) - Project practical course Theoretical Physics

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Manfred Omahna with the assistance of Mag.a Anita Niegelhell MA - Vom Gedanken zum Text (held for the Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Moebius & Martin Griesbacher, MA(Institute of Sociology) - Research Internship I (Cultural Sociology of Everyday Life)


Recognition awards

Ass.-Prof.in DDr.in Renate Kicker(European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy of the University of Graz (UNI-ETC)

Dr. EvaKlein(Styrian Art History Research Center)

Ass.-Prof.in Dr. Angela Pilch-Ortega Hernandez (Institute for Education and Educational Science)


Further information on the Teaching Award 2011/12

  • Nominations

Teaching prizes

Dr. SilviaSchultermandl (Department ofAmerican Studies) - Survey of American Literary History

Ao. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Ilona Papousek (Institute ofPsychology) - Psychological Statistics 1

MMag.a Dr.in Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl (Department ofSlavic Studies) - Introduction to Cultural Studies

Recognition awards

Dr. Georg Weidacher, Department of German Studies

Mag. Lucas Johannes Winter, Department of Economics

Henry Briscoe, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies

Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arno Heimgartner, Institute of Education and Educational Science

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Bühner, Institute of Psychology

Univ.-Prof.in DDr.in Elisabeth Weiss, Institute of Psychology

Univ.- Prof.i.R. Dr. Günther Schulter, Institute of Psychology

Dr. Moritz Heene for a course at the Institute of Psychology

Teaching prizes

Dr. AnjaBurkert (Institute ofEnglish Studies) - Language Awareness and Contrastive Analysis

Dr. KarinKranich (Institute ofGerman Studies) - Introduction to German Medieval Studies

Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Phys. Dr.rer.nat. Bernd-Jochen Schaefer (Institute ofPhysics) - Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics

Recognition prizes

Dr. Moritz Heene

Josef Wolfgang Bartmann

Assistant Professor Dr. Ulfried Terlitza

AssociateProfessor Dr. Anita Prettenthaler-Ziegerhofer

Mag. Herbert Painsi

AssistantProfessor Dr. RenateKicker

MMag. Wolfgang Eichert

Professor Dr. Markus Bühner

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