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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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