Anna Linz has been a research assistant at the Chair of Educational Data Science at the University of Regensburg since October 2026. She has also been working on her PhD at the Chair of Didactics of the German Language and Literature since 2025. Her work combines speech training and German language teaching, with a particular focus on language and voice. As a qualified voice coach, she has taught at institutions including the Würzburg University of Music and the Bavarian Academy of Performing Arts. Prior to this, she studied musicology (BA) and oral communication (MA) in Regensburg.
Academic background
- Since October 2026 – Research Assistant, Chair of Educational Data Science, University of Regensburg
- Since June 2025 – PhD student at the Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature, University of Regensburg, funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Cusanuswerk
- January 2024 – December 2024 – Research Assistant on the ‘Regensburg Voice Training’ project, University of Regensburg
- Winter Term 2023/24 – Summer Term 2025 – Lecturer in Voice Training, Opera Studio, Würzburg University of Music
- March 2022 – July 2022 – Lecturer in Speech and Voice, Bavarian Academy of Performing Arts
- Since the winter semester 2021 – Teaching assignments at the University of Regensburg (including the Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature; Centre for Language and Communication)
- 2018 – 2023 – Master’s degree in Oral Communication (M.A.), Master of Speech Communication and Rhetoric, University of Regensburg
- 2015–2023 – Supplementary university training as a speech coach
- 2015 – 2021 – Student assistant, University of Regensburg
- 2015 – 2019 – Further training in ‘International Rhetorical Competence’
- 2013–2020 – Bachelor’s degree in Musicology (B.A.) with minor subjects in German Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, and Oral Communication, University of Regensburg