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Thomas Finkbeiner

Thomas Finkbeiner

Principal Investigator

Thomas Albert Finkbeiner is deaf and grew up with German Sign Language (DGS) as his native language. He is a certified social worker / certified social pedagogue (FH), state-certified sign language lecturer and state-certified sign language interpreter for DGS and International Sign. Since 2017, he has been working at the Seminar for German Philology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen as a lecturer for DGS and Deaf Studies. He is involved in various research on sign languages as a researcher, consultant and translator. He is editing the first bimodal-bilingual book series in German Sign Language (DGS) and written German ‘Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Deaf Communities’ (Buske Verlag, with Nina-Kristin Meister) and the ‘German Sign Language Calendar’ (Buske Verlag, with Nina-Kristin Meister).

About

University of Göttingen
thomas.finkbeiner@uni-goettingen.de

Project

Parts of Speech and Iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS)

Selected Publications

  • Thomas Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister and Alexander Silbersdorff (in prep.): Gemeinsam auf dem Weg zur barrierefreien digitalen Hochschullehre. Mathematische Lehrvideos mit Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) (in prep.). In: Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre. Berlin: DUZ Verlags- und Medienhaus.
  • Thomas Finkbeiner and Nina-Kristin Meister (in prep.): Sprachkalender Deutsche Gebärdensprache 2024. Hamburg: Buske.
  • Thomas Finkbeiner, Liona Paulus and Nina-Kristin Meister (in prep.): 100 Fragen und Antworten rund um die Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS). Hamburg: Buske.
  • Nina-Kristin Pendzich, Jens-Michael Cramer, Thomas Finkbeiner, Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach (2022): How do Signers Mark Conditionals in German Sign Language? Insights from a Sentence Reproduction Task on the Use of Nonmanual and Manual Markers. In: Croatian Review of Rehabilitation Research 58 (Special Issue: Sign Language, Deaf Culture, and Bilingual Education), 206-226.
  • Thomas Finkbeiner and Nina-Kristin Pendzich (2022): Sprachkalender Deutsche Gebärdensprache 2023. Hamburg: Buske.