Dr. maurice fürstenberg
Dr. Maurice Fürstenberg has been an Academic Councillor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich at the Institute of German Philology since April 2025. As part of TEIFUN, he was based at the Chair of German Philology and Didactics of German Literature at the University of Tübingen from July 2024 with his postdoctoral project after completing his teacher training.
In his habilitation project, he is working on questions regarding the use of generative AI for feedback aimed at pupils. After passing his first state examination in German, sport and educational science at LMU and TU Munich in 2018, he completed his doctorate in German Didactics in 2023. His dissertation "The use of commas in German" was recognized as one of the five best dissertations at LMU in 2023. Maurice Fürstenberg maintained close practical contact during his doctoral studies and, in addition to his project work at the university. He also worked for four years as a Sports and German teacher at Gisela-Gymnasium Munich. He has also been active in extracurricular teaching contexts, particularly in the field of political education, for example for various foundations. As an associated fellow of the postdoctoral research group TEIFUN, he will contribute his research and practical experience, as well as his previous academic work in the field of AI and German teaching, to the research network and deepen it in a broad-based practical study.
Project:
Children write - AI gives feedback
Contact:
LMU Munich
German Philology
Schellingstr. 3 RG
80799 Munich
@ fuerstenberg@germanistik.uni-muenchen.de
Project-related publications:
Editorships
Fürstenberg, Maurice/Müller, Hans-Georg (eds.) (forthcoming): GPT and German language teaching. Der Deutschunterricht 2024, Issue 5.
Müller, Hans-Georg/Fürstenberg, Maurice (eds.) (2023): Digital upheavals. Language, literature and German teaching in times of big data and AI. Announcements of the German Association of Germanists 2023 vol. 70, issue 4.
Articles in journals and anthologies
Fürstenberg, Maurice/Müller, Hans-Georg (eds.) (forthcoming): GPT and German language teaching. In: Der Deutschunterricht 2024, issue 5, p. i. V.
Müller, Hans-Georg/Fürstenberg, Maurice (2023): The language use automaton. The functioning of GPT and its consequences for German studies and German didactics. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 2023 vol. 70, issue 4, pp. 327-345.