Lind, Miriam / Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (in prep.): Queerlinguistik. Eine Einführung in Sprache, Geschlecht und Sexualität. Tübingen: Narr (under contract).

Vorberger, Lars (2022): Hessisch: Vom Babbeln und Schnuddeln. Berlin: Dudenverlag.

Vorberger, Lars (2019): Regionalsprache in Hessen. Eine Untersuchung zu Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel im mittleren und südlichen Hessen. Stuttgart: Steiner (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 178).
Reviewed by Rudolf Post in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 89.1 (2022), pp. 123–126 (Biblioscout).

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (submitted): Trans Voices in German: A Sociophonetic Case Study of Perception and Production Based on Berlin Metro Announcements. In: Journal of Language and Sexuality.

Bienzeisler, Nils / Hohenwalde, Clarissa / Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (submitted): How Directional Is Accuracy-Driven Motivated Reasoning? Evidence from Public Disputes over Gender-neutral Language and Flights in Germany. In: Journal of Communication.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (forthcoming): Wer redet viel und wer tratscht? – Metapragmatik der Verbosität. To appear in: Sprachwissenschaft. special issue: Verbosität.

Lipfert, Salome / Limper, Juliane / Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (forthcoming): Regionalakzent im Brandenburgischen. To appear in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2026): Metapragmatische Stereotype de-/nasaler Aussprache – Von näselnden Adeligen, Franzosen und ‘Schwulen’. In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik, 2026.84, pp. 91–129. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2026-2004

Vorberger, Lars (2024): Plau, krau und krün? – Zur Verteilung und Variation der anlautenden Fortisierung von Plosiven vor Sonoranten. In: Linguistik Online, 128.4, pp. 101–117. https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.124.10632

Vorberger, Lars (2024): “Das klingt echt schwul” – Eine soziophonetische Untersuchung zur stereotypen schwulen Aussprache im Deutschen. In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik, 2024.80, pp. 136–180. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2024-2005

Vorberger, Lars (2022): Niederdeutsch in Hessen – Phonetisch-phonologische Auswertungen niederdeutsch intendierter Wenkersätze aus Hessen. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 89.2–3, pp. 320–335 (special issue: Niederdeutsche Dialektologie).

Vorberger, Lars (2019): Niederdeutsch in Hamburger Straßennamen. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 86.2, pp. 208–228 (special issue: Namenkundliche Beiträge zum Niederdeutschen).

Vorberger, Lars (2019): Medienhessisch. Eine Untersuchung medialer Verwendungen des “Hessischen”. In: Hettler, Yvonne / Kleene, Andrea / Vorberger, Lars (eds.): Aktuelle Sprachvariationsforschung: Zugänge und Tendenzen. Linguistik Online, 99.6, pp. 97–123. https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.99.5967

Vorberger, Lars (2016): Niederdeutsch auf Rügen. Eine synchrone Untersuchung zum Niederdeutschen in Bergen auf Rügen. In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch. Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, 139, pp. 153–171.

Vorberger, Lars (2015): Sprachwechsel im Brandenburgischen – eine Analyse von Wenkerbogen. In: Jahrbuch für germanistische Sprachgeschichte. Deutsch im Norden, 6, pp. 298–315. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbgsg-2015-0018

Vorberger, Lars / Schröder, Ingrid (2011): Standardadvergenz im nördlichen Niedersachsen? In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch. Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, 134, pp. 137–147.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (forthcoming): Strategies for referring to nonbinary individuals in German: An empirical analysis. To appear in: Kahn, Lily / Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.): Challenging the Binary: Perspectives on Nonbinary, Gender-Inclusive, and Genderqueer Language. De Gruyter (Interdisciplinary Linguistics 8), pp. 101–126.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (forthcoming): DAS TIER IST QUEER – linguistische Zugänge zu “queeren” Tieren. To appear in: Nübling, Damaris / Schweden, Theresa / Späth, Lena (eds.): Tierlinguistik. Tier/Mensch-Differenzierungen in Grammatik, Lexik und Diskurs. Berlin: J.B. Metzler (Cultural Animal Studies 26). Publisher’s page

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (forthcoming): Schwester – Form und Funktion der Gender Inversion bei Charming Boys. To appear in: Kabatnik, Susanne et al. (eds.): Genderpragmatik. Tübingen: Narr (Studien zur Pragmatik). Publisher’s page

Hoffmeister, Toke / Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2026): “Megan Fox is in a toxic relationship”. Representations of the ‘Toxic’ in Linguistic Community and Media Discourse. In: Bodden, Tamara / Liemann, Christina / Bau, Patricia (eds.): Poisoned Play. Toxicity in Online Gaming Discourse. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 21–40. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839477533-021

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): Pronoun Specification in German. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality, 2.1, pp. 10–25. https://doi.org/10.33422/icgss.v2i1.1463

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): Vulva oder Dose – Penis oder Dödel? Genitalbezeichnungen, Konzepte und Implikationen im Verhältnis zu Geschlecht und Sexualität. In: Sörries-Vorberger, Lars / Linseisen, Elisa / Segler-Meßner, Silke (eds.): Gendering Knowledge. Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Wissen und Macht. Opladen [etc.]: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 196–220. https://doi.org/10.3224/84743111

Ganswindt, Brigitte / Limper, Juliane / Vorberger, Lars (2021): SOS – Subjektiv-objektsprachliche Spektren. In: Hoffmeister, Toke / Hundt, Markus / Schröder, Saskia (eds.): Laien, Wissen, Sprache. Theoretische, methodische und domänenspezifische Perspektiven. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Sprache und Wissen 50), pp. 305–335. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731958-013

Vorberger, Lars (2020): Rhein-Mainisierung – zur Neustrukturierung im hessischen Sprachraum. In: Christen, Helen / Ganswindt, Brigitte / Herrgen, Joachim / Schmidt, Jürgen Erich (eds.): Regiolekt – Der neue Dialekt? Akten des 6. Kongresses der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD). Stuttgart: Steiner (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 182), pp. 123–148.

Herrgen, Joachim / Vorberger, Lars (2019): Rheinfränkisch. In: Schmidt, Jürgen Erich / Herrgen, Joachim (eds.): Deutsch: Sprache und Raum – Ein internationales Handbuch der Sprachvariation: Areale Sprachvariation im Deutschen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 30.4), pp. 478–515. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261295-015

Kehrein, Roland / Vorberger, Lars (2018): Dialekt- und Variationskorpora. In: Kupietz, Marc / Schmidt, Thomas (eds.): Korpuslinguistik. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020, 5), pp. 125–150. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110538649-007

Vorberger, Lars (2017): Sprachvariation in Büdingen. Eine Analyse neuer regionalsprachlicher Merkmale. In: Purschke, Christoph / Ganswindt, Brigitte (eds.): Variation und Wandel im Blick. Beiträge aus dem Forum Sprachvariation. Hildesheim [etc.]: Olms (Germanistische Linguistik 237–238), pp. 399–435.

Vorberger, Lars (2017): Hochdeutsch auf Rügen – Eine Untersuchung zum Regiolekt in Bergen auf Rügen. In: Arendt, Birte / Bieberstedt, Andreas / Ehlers, Klaas-Hinrich (eds.): Niederdeutsch und regionale Umgangssprache in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1. Strukturelle, soziolinguistische und didaktische Aspekte. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 145–165.

Heyd, Theresa / Lind, Miriam / Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (eds.) (in prep.): Anti\Queer: the back and forth of linguistic reappropriation. Gender and Language, Special Issue.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars / Linseisen, Elisa / Segler-Meßner, Silke (eds.) (2025): Gendering Knowledge. Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Wissen und Macht. Opladen [etc.]: Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.3224/84743111

Langhanke, Robert / Limper, Juliane / Vorberger, Lars / Kwekkeboom, Sarah (eds.) (2024): Wahrnehmungs- und variationslinguistische Arbeiten zur Regionalsprache. Linguistik Online, 128.4. https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/issue/view/1335

Hettler, Yvonne / Kleene, Andrea / Vorberger, Lars (eds.) (2019): Aktuelle Sprachvariationsforschung: Zugänge und Tendenzen. Linguistik Online, 99.6. https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/issue/view/984

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2026): Review of: Post, Rudolf (2024): Mundarten in Rheinhessen. Einführung in eine Sprachlandschaft mit Wörterbuch. Heidelberg [etc.]: verlag regionalkultur. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 93.2026-1, pp. 124–127. https://biblioscout.net/de/article/99.140005/zdl202601012401

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): Review of: Schweden, Theresa (2023): Personenreferenz im Dialekt. Grammatik und Pragmatik inoffizieller Personennamen in Dialekten des Deutschen (Empirische Linguistik 18). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. In: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 17.1–2, pp. 193–196. https://doi.org/10.1515/zrs-2025-2024

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2024): Abstract of: Fischer, Hanna (2022): Tempus und Regionalsprache. Eine gebrauchslinguistische Studie. Hildesheim: Olms (Deutsche Dialektgeographie 129). In: Germanistik – Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen, 65.1–2, pp. 99–100. https://doi.org/10.1515/germ-2024-651-218

Vorberger, Lars (2023): Review of: Kellermeier-Rehbein, Birte (2022): Plurizentrik. Einführung in die Standardvariation des Deutschen. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag (ESV). In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik, 2023.79, pp. 294–298. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2023-2018

Vorberger, Lars (2019): Review of: Kotthoff, Helga / Nübling, Damaris (2018): Genderlinguistik. Eine Einführung in Sprache, Gespräch und Geschlecht. With the collaboration of Claudia Schmidt. Tübingen: Narr. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 86.3, pp. 353–356.

Vorberger, Lars (2018): Review of: Ahlers, Timo / Oberholzer, Susanne / Riccabona, Michael / Stoeckle, Philipp (eds.) (2018): Deutsche Dialekte in Europa. Perspektiven auf Variation, Wandel und Übergänge. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Olms (Kleine und regionale Sprachen 3). In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch. Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, 141, pp. 162–164.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars / Sökefeld, Carla (2025): Lehrkonzept Data & Digital Literacy – Queere Zugänge zur Korpus- und Diskurslinguistik. Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Labs. Hub for Cross-Disciplinary Learning, Universität Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.18000

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): GGS – UHH Geschlechtergerechte Sprache an der Universität Hamburg [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16734

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): QLK Subkorpus Queere Tiere (Version 2) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16969

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2024): QLK Subkorpus Transstimmen (Version 1) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14434

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2024): QLK Subkorpus CSD-Berichterstattung (Version 1) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14436

Beitel, Dennis / Ganswindt, Brigitte / Kehrein, Roland / Lanwermeyer, Manuela / Limper, Juliane / Lipfert, Salome / Pheiff, Jeffrey / Vorberger, Lars (2023): Regionalakzente in Deutschland: Nördliches Niederdeutsch. Marburg: Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas. https://dsa.info/regionalakzente/ndt_nord.html

Limper, Juliane / Lipfert, Salome / Pistor, Tillmann / Vorberger, Lars (2023): Regionalakzente in Deutschland: Brandenburgisch. Marburg: Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas. https://dsa.info/regionalakzente/bb.html

Pistor, Tillmann / Schnell, Hanni / Vorberger, Lars (2023): Regionalakzente in Deutschland: Westliches Mitteldeutsch. Marburg: Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas. https://dsa.info/regionalakzente/mdt_west.html

(Contributor to:) Schmidt, Jürgen Erich / Herrgen, Joachim / Kehrein, Roland (eds.) (2008 ff.): Regionalsprache.de (REDE). Forschungsplattform zu den modernen Regionalsprachen des Deutschen. Teil 4: Neuerhebung der modernen Regionalsprachen des Deutschen. Compiled by Sybille Felix, Bettina Kärcher, Carolin Kiesewalter, Juliane Limper, Maya Lippmann, Björn Lüders, Jeffrey Pheiff, Josephine Rocholl, Victoria Schaub, Hanni Th. Schnell, Philipp Spang and Lars Vorberger. Marburg: Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas.

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (submitted): Sexualisierung. In: Diskursmonitor. Glossar zur strategischen Kommunikation in öffentlichen Diskursen. Ed. by the research group Diskursmonitor und Diskursintervention.

Beitel, Dennis / Vorberger, Lars (2023): Die Woi-Wanderung. In: Sprachspuren: Berichte aus dem Deutschen Sprachatlas 3.12. https://doi.org/10.57712/2023-12

Vorberger, Lars (2018): Sprache in Büdingen. In: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter XXV. Compiled and edited by the Geschichtswerkstatt Büdingen. Büdingen, pp. 395–441.

Lanwermeyer, Manuela / Vorberger, Lars (2012): Bericht zum 4. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD). “Deutsche Dialekte. Konzepte, Probleme, Handlungsfelder.” 13.–15. September 2012, Kiel. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 79.3, pp. 335–341.

Hosting and organisation of the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference 33 at Universität Hamburg

Member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Language and Sexuality”

Member of the Steering Committee of the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference

Spokesperson of the network “Queerlinguistik”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), together with Prof. Dr. Miriam Lind (European University Viadrina)

Member of the German studies institutional partnership (Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft) “Korpusdidaktik für formelhafte Sprache” (KoDi-FS) with Vilnius University, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Representative of the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas in the project “FOKUS” (Forschungsdatenkurse für Studierende und Graduierte – research data courses for students and graduates), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

German Research Foundation (DFG); journals: “Aptum”, “European Journal of Applied Linguistics”, “Gender Linguistics”, “Journal of Language and Sexuality”, “Linguistik Online”, “Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch”, “Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik”, “Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik”

Member of the Examination Board (Bachelor, Master) of the Department of Languages, Literature and Media I (SLM I), Universität Hamburg

Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Humanities (EKGW), Universität Hamburg

Member of the Board of Directors of the Department of German Studies (Germanistisches Seminar), Kiel University (CAU)

Member of the Department Council of the Department of Languages, Literature and Media I (SLM I), Universität Hamburg

Transfer Officer of the Department of Languages, Literature and Media I (SLM I), Universität Hamburg

Orientation Officer (OE-Beauftragter) of the Institute of German Studies, Universität Hamburg: co-organisation and coordination of the orientation programme for new students (Orientierungseinheiten, OE) and its fundamental redesign

Organisation and leadership of a working group on AI in student work at the Institute of German Studies; result: recommendations on the use of generative AI in the Department of Languages, Literature and Media I (SLM I, 06/2024), since then contact person for the topic

Chair of a selection committee (research associate with teaching duties in German linguistics, Institute of German Studies)

Member of the committee of the Department of Languages, Literature and Media I (SLM I) for awarding scholarships of the state graduate funding programme (Landesgraduiertenförderung)

Member of the Joint Commission of the Center for Gender & Diversity (ZGD)

Participation in the evaluation of Universität Hamburg as a University of Excellence (area: Diversity and Equal Opportunities)

Participation in the re-audit “Vielfalt gestalten” (Shaping Diversity) of Universität Hamburg (initiated as Equal Opportunity Officer)

Participation in the project “Collective Responsibility. Rassismus(kritik) an Hochschulen”

Equal Opportunity Officer in the Equal Opportunity Unit of Universität Hamburg

Liaison lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Mentor in the ProMotivation programme for female students and graduates in the humanities and social sciences, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Co-spokesperson of the Forum Sprachvariation for early-career researchers of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD): representation and support of early-career researchers, organisation of the early-career colloquia in 2017, 2019 and 2020, editing of the conference proceedings

Scientific network “Queerlinguistik”, together with Prof. Dr. Miriam Lind (European University Viadrina)
German Research Foundation (project number 555139641), €39,190 plus €8,622 programme allowance

Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Lab “QuZuKoDiLi – Queere Zugänge zur Korpus- und Diskurslinguistik”
Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (as part of the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab of Universität Hamburg), €40,000

L, S, B, T, I, Q, A und */+? – Sprachliche Sichtbarkeit von queeren Menschen
Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld, €6,500

Teaching project “Gender Equality”, together with Prof. Dr. Elisa Linseisen (Universität Hamburg)
Excellence Strategy of Universität Hamburg, €5,962

QLK – Queerlinguistisches Korpus
Equal Opportunity Fund of Universität Hamburg, €3,693

Geschlechtergerechter Sprachgebrauch an der Universität Hamburg (UHH) – GGS-UHH
Women’s Advancement Fund of Universität Hamburg, €1,591

Student teaching project “Am Pranger – Sprachmuster der Scham im Kontext sozialer Normierung”, together with Miriam Hinterholzer (Institute of German Studies, Universität Hamburg)
Innovation Fund of the Faculty of Humanities, Universität Hamburg, €1,400

Teaching project “Sprachdiskurse”
Validation Fund of Kiel University (CAU), €480

In total over €107,000 in third-party funding and grants

Duration 04/2025 – 03/2028, role: spokesperson, together with Prof. Dr. Miriam Lind (European University Viadrina), funding: German Research Foundation (project number 555139641), Network website

The network “Queerlinguistik”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), advances research on language, gender and sexuality in Germany, makes it visible and contributes to its establishment. Queer linguistics investigates the complex interrelations of language, gender and sexuality, enriched by perspectives critical of power and normativity. Three main areas can be identified: linguistic structures, linguistic representations and linguistic constructions. In contrast to the Anglo-American context, for example, queer linguistics in Germany is still in its infancy – in terms of research, teaching and institutionalisation. This is where the network comes in: it brings together suitably qualified researchers with different areas of focus and at different stages of their academic careers. Besides intensifying queer linguistic research and connecting researchers, the aim is to increase the visibility of queer linguistics in Germany and to establish these perspectives in research, teaching and higher education as a whole – among other things, concept papers, an edited volume and the preparation of a research grant application are planned. The network also focuses on the application and transfer of the scientific findings obtained.

Funding 01/2025 – 12/2025, continuation ongoing, funding: Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld, results: public closing event (12/2025), talks including Kiel and LavLang 32 Edinburgh (2026), Project website

The project “L, S, B, T, I, Q, A und */+? – Sprachliche Sichtbarkeit von queeren Menschen” deals with abbreviations based on LSBT, the German equivalent of LGBT (e.g. LSBTI, LSBTIQ, LSBTIQA*). The project is guided by the following questions: (1) Which abbreviations are used (= form)? LSBT/LGBT, LSBTI, LSBTIQ, LSBTIQA* etc.? German or English forms? How often, and in which media and contexts? (2) What do the abbreviations mean (= meaning)? While L, S/G and B appear relatively unambiguous, the question arises as to what the T, the I, the A, the Q and the asterisk/plus sign actually stand for (e.g. trans*, transgender, transsexual). Have the abbreviations become detached from their full forms, and are they used, for example, in the sense of ‘queer’ or as umbrella terms? (3) Which people are referred to with the abbreviations (= reference)? Are components of the abbreviations “full” or “empty”? Can further referring expressions in texts show which people or groups the abbreviations refer to: lesbians & gays, but also bi+, trans*, inter* or queer people?

The study was based on a large corpus from the Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache (DWDS) with 84,186 instances from online sources. In addition, definitions and uses in dictionaries and by queer organisations were analysed. Part of the data was manually annotated and evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. In total, 30,453 abbreviations were annotated and analysed, and 169 different forms were identified. Most of these variants are rare: 55 forms occur only once, 114 forms appear several times. Despite this diversity, actual language use is strongly concentrated on a few variants. The most frequent are LGBT, LGBTQ and LSBTIQ*. If basic forms and variants with special characters (+ and *) are combined, LGBT clearly dominates all other forms.

These and further results were presented and discussed at a public closing event entitled “Queere Sichtbarkeit” (Queer Visibility) on 18 December 2025 at Universität Hamburg. As a continuation of the project, a survey is currently being conducted. The full project results will be published in the near future.

Role: principal investigator, partners: Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG); Medical Voice Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, results: talks including the Congress of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD) 2025, LavLang 31 (2025), Glasgow 2025, Marburg 2026; manuscript submitted to the “Journal of Language and Sexuality”

Queer voices are not understood here in a figurative sense but as the entire complex of the articulation of sounds. With our voices, we can produce patterns of roles, groups and actions, which in turn are perceived by others. In this way, sexual and gender identities and roles can also be “made” and indexed (doing & indexing) as well as read and perceived through the use of linguistic – above all, phonetic – features in a concrete context and in combination with other features. In this project, I examine various aspects of the relationship between voice and sexuality (queerness). On the one hand, this concerns the concept of gay voices (or: gay speech) (cf. Vorberger 2024, Sörries-Vorberger 2026). On the other hand – and this is the current focus – I am interested in queer voices beyond binaries (masculine – feminine, straight – gay). For German, there is hardly any (socio)linguistic or (socio)phonetic research on trans or non-binary people – voices included. I would like to change this and find out (as a first step) what trans voices encompass, which concepts exist and what everyday language use can look like.

For this project, I made recordings (interview, reading text) with two trans women: Lia Şahin, artist (beatboxer, rapper, producer), and Philippa Jarke, dubbing artist, actress, producer. Philippa Jarke is also the voice of the announcements of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), which provided me with the recordings as part of a cooperation. I processed and acoustically analysed the announcements for 182 underground stations as well as the reading texts and interviews (F0 mean + range, pitch sigma, jitter, shimmer, CPP, HNR, F1 + F2, intensity, speech rate, consonant–vowel ratio, CoG + skew /s/, VOT). In addition, three different perception experiments were conducted with a selection of the underground announcements. Extensive results on production and perception as well as on methodological and sociophonetic implications are available and have been presented in various talks. A manuscript on the results has been submitted to the “Journal of Language and Sexuality”.

In addition, there is a collaboration with the Medical Voice Center at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), which provided me with recordings (reading texts, lists, interviews) of 30 patients before and after voice feminisation. The data were processed together with a student research assistant; semi-automatic acoustic measurements are currently under way. The general aim is to investigate trans voices in German further from a linguistic perspective, as there is a major research gap here. Among other things, the study determines which acoustic parameters – beyond fundamental frequency – have changed after an invasive procedure, which can also provide insights into the fundamental gendering of voices.

How “jetzt” (‘now’) and other deictic expressions mark biographical turning points and anchor identity in time (talk at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Applied Linguistics [GAL] 2026).

Who is considered “talkative”, who “taciturn”? Stereotypes about the amount of talk along the lines of region and gender (article forthcoming in “Sprachwissenschaft”; talk 2026 at the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung [VndS]).

Announcement voices as media social symbols of city and gender; perception of synthetic voices (talk at the Congress of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen [IGDD] 2025; seminar “Digitale Stimmen” in winter semester 2026/27).

Distribution and variation of forms such as “plau, krau, krün” in the data of Regionalsprache.de (“Linguistik Online” 2024).

Pronoun specification in email signatures and reference to non-binary people (ICGSS 2025; chapter forthcoming with De Gruyter; conference “Praktiken der Personenreferenz”, Münster 2026).

Duration 04/2026 – 09/2026, teaching project at Kiel University (CAU) (seminar in summer semester 2026), funding: Validation Fund of Kiel University (CAU)

We all talk about language, that is, we express ourselves metalinguistically. The seminar of the teaching project focused on broad public discourses about language, such as the discourses on the spelling reform, on anglicisms or on gender-inclusive language use.

The students engaged with these or other language discourses and developed and carried out their own research projects. The projects resulted in academic posters and further materials (brochures, games, quizzes) that can be used in schools or for public exhibitions (in consultation with the students).

Talking about language, or language and the public, was thus not only the subject of the seminar project but also an essential part of its implementation. In the spirit of knowledge transfer, the posters and materials are intended to inform the public about language discourses and to encourage reflection.

Duration 10/2024 – 09/2025, funding: Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab of Universität Hamburg), result: teaching concept (https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.18000), Project website

The project “QuZuKoDiLi – Queere Zugänge zur Korpus- und Diskurslinguistik” consisted of a seminar with an accompanying practical class at advanced and master’s level, held in both winter semester 2024/2025 and summer semester 2025. It aimed to bring together queer linguistics and digital humanities in research and teaching. The courses taught (1) general digital and data skills (data & digital literacy), (2) interdisciplinary methods (data collection, processing, management, analysis and presentation) and (3) subject-specific content and methods (queer, discourse and corpus linguistics). In addition, a concept for humanities courses in the spirit of the CDTL was developed. It comprises a course template (concept paper with schedule, content structure and modules for individual sessions) that can be adapted for all linguistic disciplines, as well as teaching and learning materials within the digital humanities:

Sörries-Vorberger, Lars / Sökefeld, Carla (2025): Lehrkonzept Data & Digital Literacy – Queere Zugänge zur Korpus- und Diskurslinguistik. Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Labs. Hub for Cross-Disciplinary Learning, Universität Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.18000

In the seminar, content-related and methodological aspects (queer, discourse and corpus linguistics) were discussed in a research-oriented way and then put into practice in the practical class. One example is the question of which person and group terms are used for queer people (e.g. Lesben ‘lesbians’ vs. homosexuelle Frauen ‘homosexual women’) and how they may vary (frequency, medium, etc.). To this end, existing corpora (e.g. DeReKo, QLK) were analysed quantitatively, while students also collected, processed and analysed their own data – complemented by (critical) discourse analyses and multimodal approaches. In addition to existing corpora, the following resources, among others, were used for data processing, analysis and presentation: DATS, CATMA, DeReKoVecs, DWDS-Wortprofil, Queeres Netzwerk des Tages.

Duration 08/2024 – 12/2024, funding: Women’s Advancement Fund of Universität Hamburg, results: data set in the Research Data Repository (FDR) of Universität Hamburg (UHH), talks, publication (ICGSS 2025)

As part of the research project “Geschlechtergerechter Sprachgebrauch an der Universität Hamburg – GGS-UHH”, an online survey was conducted. Gender-inclusive language use is still a highly topical issue and plays an important role in public and academic discourse – also in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and, as part of it, at Universität Hamburg. However, reliable empirical data on knowledge, use, attitudes and experiences regarding gender-inclusive language at Universität Hamburg have been lacking. The aim of the survey was therefore to collect data on knowledge, use of and attitudes towards gender-inclusive language at Universität Hamburg. The survey contained various open and closed questions as well as rating tasks. It was accessible from 8 October 2024 to 30 November 2024, and 3,568 members of the university completed it in full. The funding made it possible to employ a student assistant to support the project.

In line with the project’s aims, initial analyses were carried out and presented in talks. Besides providing insights for linguistics, they can also serve as a basis for implementing further equal opportunity measures for gender-inclusive language use at Universität Hamburg. In addition, the data were processed, stored sustainably in the Research Data Repository (FDR) of Universität Hamburg (UHH) and made (partially) accessible together with detailed documentation, so that members of the university can use them for further analyses and other purposes (cf. Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): GGS – UHH Geschlechtergerechte Sprache an der Universität Hamburg [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16734).

Results of the project on pronoun specification in email signatures were presented and published in summer 2025 at the 6th “International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality” (Berlin): Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): Pronoun Specification in German. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality, 2.1, pp. 10–25. https://doi.org/10.33422/icgss.v2i1.1463

Duration 07/2023 – 06/2024, funding: Equal Opportunity Fund of Universität Hamburg, partner: Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), results: three subcorpora in the Research Data Repository (FDR) of Universität Hamburg (UHH), Queeres Netzwerk des Tages

The project “QLK – Queerlinguistisches Korpus” was a one-year pilot project funded by the Equal Opportunity Fund of the Equal Opportunity Unit of Universität Hamburg. It served to build a corpus with queer content as a research resource for students and researchers and to prepare a larger research project. Corpus-linguistic research on the relationship between language and sexuality is still in its infancy for German – QLK helps to close this gap and thus to enable further research in queer linguistics and queer studies. Corpus-linguistic methods in particular make it possible to analyse large amounts of text automatically. In addition, qualitative approaches can reveal hidden (linguistically constituted) patterns of thought and action (e.g. Christopher Street Day as a political demonstration or a “shrill” party).

Together with the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), tools for data collection and processing were further developed. The “Queeres Netzwerk des Tages” (QNdT, ‘Queer Network of the Day’) is part of the “Netzwerk des Tages” (‘Network of the Day’), a program that interactively visualises time-dependent relationships between public actors (people and organisations) in German- and English-language online news (see below).

In addition, three subcorpora were processed, stored sustainably (with limited access) in the Research Data Repository (FDR) of Universität Hamburg (UHH) and partly implemented in the analysis tool DATS – Discourse Analysis Tool Suite – of the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS). The subcorpora are already being used in courses at the Institute of German Studies at Universität Hamburg for coursework and project work. The subcorpora comprise:

1. Queere Tiere (general, penguins, sheep, monkeys, koalas, giraffes, birds, insects, moles, vultures) – 100 processed texts, 52,627 tokens: The corpus “Queere Tiere” (‘queer animals’) contains texts that address “queer” animals in a variety of ways (e.g. animals that show same-sex sexual behaviour or animals that cannot be clearly fitted into the binary sex model). These are primarily journalistic and popular science texts from freely available online sources (https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16969).


2. Transstimmen (general, opera, speech therapy) – 58 processed texts, 54,542 tokens: The corpus “Transstimmen” (‘trans voices’) contains texts that address phonetic aspects of the voices of trans people. These texts were also taken from freely available online sources. Besides journalistic texts, there are also advertising and information texts from speech therapy practices and therapy facilities (https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14434).


3. CSD-Berichterstattung (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) – 120 processed texts, 63,364 tokens: The corpus “CSD-Berichterstattung” (‘CSD coverage’) contains five journalistic texts each from freely available online sources on the cities of Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart for the years 2020 to 2023 (https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14436).

The project was successfully completed within the scope applied for. It was also intended to serve as a basis for further research and grant applications, which was likewise achieved: on the one hand, there is a long-term cooperation with the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS); on the other hand, a Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Lab (CDTL) building on the QLK project was secured in the third funding round of the Data Literacy Teaching Lab 2024/25 – QuZuKoDiLi: Queere Zugänge zur Korpus- und Diskurslinguistik.

Part of the QLK project, partner: Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), Universität Hamburg

The “Queeres Netzwerk des Tages” (QNdT) is a program that interactively visualises time-dependent relationships between public actors (people and organisations) in German- and English-language online news. The focus is on explicitly queer content, which is identified and filtered on the basis of keywords in the news services’ RSS feeds. Thematically similar entities are clustered and visualised by means of nodes and connecting lines between the individual actors. A search function allows users to find entities in the QNdT. In this way, the network enables a transparent and intuitive exploration of current events. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are possible, since the frequencies of entities are displayed on the one hand and the sources are linked directly on the other.

The “Queeres Netzwerk des Tages” is thus a valuable research resource for students and researchers as well as for journalists and anyone else interested.

The “Netzwerk des Tages” is a program developed by the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) of Universität Hamburg and extended by a specifically queer linguistic perspective (also covering English-language online media) as part of the cooperation with the pilot project “Queerlinguistisches Korpus” (Lars Sörries-Vorberger, Universität Hamburg).

The “Queeres Netzwerk des Tages” is available in German and English.

Further information on the general “Netzwerk des Tages”.

Results: talks including Marburg (2023) and Duisburg-Essen (2024); publication 2025

I have studied the German lexicon of genital terms, i.e. terms for the vulvina and the penis, and their social implications. I have spoken about the topic in several talks; an article on it was published in 2025. The analysis covers 1,550 genital terms (855 for the penis and 695 for the vulvina), which are categorised by source domains and motivations using an inductive-deductive procedure. The results show that most terms for the penis come from the categories of objects, tools and body parts, while terms for the vulvina can often be traced back to terms for containers or landscapes. The most dominant shape features of penis terms are elongated, pointed and hard; those of vulvina terms are hollow, deep and round. Various metaphors such as genitals are animals, the penis is a weapon and the vulvina is a hole can be identified. The dominant pattern behind the naming strategies is that of the active penis (e.g. Hammer ‘hammer’) which penetrates and fills the passive vulvina that serves it (e.g. Dose ‘tin’). This pattern and the concepts behind the naming strategies produce and reproduce social structures of power, gender and normativity. Ultimately, the terms – as lexicalised social ideas – shape knowledge about genitals and gender and contribute to maintaining binarisms. The study can thus provide insights and suggestions for terms in discourses on sexual pleasure, health discourses (prevention, contraception, etc.) and information and education discourses (educational institutions), as well as for de-tabooing.

The results have been published: Sörries-Vorberger, Lars (2025): Vulva oder Dose – Penis oder Dödel? Genitalbezeichnungen, Konzepte und Implikationen im Verhältnis zu Geschlecht und Sexualität. In: Sörries-Vorberger, Lars / Linseisen, Elisa / Segler-Meßner, Silke (eds.): Gendering Knowledge. Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Wissen und Macht. Opladen [etc.]: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 196–220. https://doi.org/10.3224/84743111

Duration 04/2023 – 03/2024, co-led with Prof. Dr. Elisa Linseisen (Universität Hamburg), funding: Excellence Strategy of Universität Hamburg, result: exhibition at the Kulturkaufhaus JUPITER (12/2023)

In winter semester 2023/2024, the project seminar “Gender Equality + Sprach- und Medienwissenschaften” took place under the direction of Prof. Dr. Elisa Linseisen and Prof. Dr. Lars Sörries-Vorberger (both Universität Hamburg); Universität Hamburg (UHH) funded it as a teaching team. The seminar title was inspired by the fifth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations (UN): Gender Equality. The seminar focused on what gender equality actually means, how it can be achieved and how language, media and gender equality influence and condition one another. Students examined the topic from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective and linked it to other sustainability-related questions. At the action days at Hamburg’s Kulturkaufhaus JUPITER (9–10 December 2023) on the theme “Vielfalt und soziale Teilhabe für Nachhaltige Entwicklung” (diversity and social participation for sustainable development), the students exhibited their results, diverse in content and media, and presented them to all visitors to JUPITER.

Making the concept permanent is being planned.

Duration 03/2024 – 09/2024, supervision of the student teaching project by Miriam Hinterholzer (Institute of German Studies, Universität Hamburg), funding: Innovation Fund of the Faculty of Humanities, Universität Hamburg

Student teaching project “Am Pranger – Sprachmuster der Scham im Kontext sozialer Normierung” (summer semester 2024, Universität Hamburg).

Doctoral project, Philipps-Universität Marburg (doctorate 2017)

Cf. Vorberger, Lars (2019): Regionalsprache in Hessen. Eine Untersuchung zu Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel im mittleren und südlichen Hessen. Stuttgart: Steiner (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 178).

Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg (2023), co-author of the entries Nördliches Niederdeutsch, Brandenburgisch and Westliches Mitteldeutsch

Cf. Regionalakzente in Deutschland

Cf. Vorberger, Lars (2016): Niederdeutsch auf Rügen. Eine synchrone Untersuchung zum Niederdeutschen in Bergen auf Rügen. In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch. Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, 139, pp. 153–171.

Cf. Vorberger, Lars (2017): Hochdeutsch auf Rügen – Eine Untersuchung zum Regiolekt in Bergen auf Rügen. In: Arendt, Birte / Bieberstedt, Andreas / Ehlers, Klaas-Hinrich (eds.): Niederdeutsch und regionale Umgangssprache in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1. Strukturelle, soziolinguistische und didaktische Aspekte. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 145–165.

“Sprache, Geschlecht und Sexualität: Perspektiven und Beispiele der Queerlinguistik”
Talk at the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS), Trier University

“Queerlinguistik – Theorien, Methoden und Ansätze sowie Bezüge zur Diversitäts- und Inklusionslinguistik”
Research School of the German Association for Applied Linguistics (GAL): Impulse und Methoden der Diversitäts- und Inklusionslinguistik, University of Bayreuth

“L, S, B, T, I, Q, A und */+? – Gebrauch, Auflösung und Bedeutung von LS-/LG-basierten Kurzwörtern im Deutschen”
Second German Studies Colloquium, Kiel University (CAU)

“Stimme – Geschlecht – Sexualität: queere Stimmen im Deutschen”
Linguistics colloquium, Institute of Scandinavian Studies, Frisian Studies and General Linguistics, Kiel University (CAU)

“Queer Voices – Stimme, Geschlecht und Sexualität”
Guest lecture at the University of Bern, Switzerland

“‘Trans’ voices in German – initial sociophonetic insights”
Talk at Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics, online

“Sprache und Sexualität: Perspektiven und Beispiele der Queerlinguistik”
Lecture: Vertiefung der Sprachwissenschaft (advanced linguistics), Leuphana University Lüneburg

“Stimme – Geschlecht – Sexualität: soziophonetische Zugänge”
8th Hamburg Voice Symposium (Hamburger Stimmsymposium), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

“Stereotypes schwules Sprechen – Produktion, Perzeption und Indexikalisierung”
Seminar Queerlinguistik: Sprache, Geschlecht und Sexualität, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

“Vulva oder Dose – Penis oder Dödel? Genitalbezeichnungen, Konzepte und Implikationen im Verhältnis zu Geschlecht und Sexualität”
Queer(ing) Linguistics: Anglistik und Germanistik im Dialog, University of Duisburg-Essen

“Schwule Geier und intersexuelle Hyänen – diskurslinguistische Untersuchungen zu ‘queeren’ Tieren”
Linguistisches Forschungskaleidoskop, Institute of German Studies, Universität Hamburg

“Penis – Dödel – Johannes: Bezeichnungen des äußeren ‘männlichen’ Geschlechtsorgans und dahinterstehende Konzepte”
Linguistics colloquium, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas (DSA) and Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft (IGS), Marburg

“Gender- und Queer-Linguistik: Überblick – Beispiele – gesellschaftliche Relevanz”
Colloquium of the German Section (Tyska), Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University, online

“Genderlinguistik”
Course in the Interdisziplinäre Sprach(schafts)-Akademie-Reihe ISAR 2020, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), online

“Stereotype schwuler (Aus)Sprache”
Seminar “Gender und Queer Linguistics”, Freiburg

“Neuhessisch 2.0 – Regionalsprachliche Entwicklungen im Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
Linguistics colloquium, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg

“Stereotype schwuler (Aus)Sprache”
Lecture series “Language and Gender” at the University of Bremen, together with Simon Falk

“Trans Voices in German: A Sociophonetic Case Study of Perception and Production Based on Berlin Metro Announcements”
Representations of Gender, International Workshop, Philipps-Universität Marburg

“LGBTQIA* – Usage, expansion and meaning of LGBT-based initialisms in German”
Lavender Languages and Linguistics, LavLang 32, University of Edinburgh

“‘Gay’ nasalization – metapragmatic stereotypes of de-/nasal pronunciation”
NORDISCO 2025, Trondheim, Norway

“‘Trans’ Voices in German – first explorations”
Lavender Languages and Linguistics, LavLang 31, Manchester Metropolitan University

“Gender (de-)construction in the discourse about trans people’s voices”
LILG – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, together with Dr. Aline Siegenthaler (University of Geneva) and Carla Sökefeld (Institute of German Studies, Universität Hamburg)

“Pronoun Specification in German”
6th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality, Berlin

“The German ‘Gay Nasal’ – origin and perception of the stereotypical feature of sounding gay in German”
Lavender Languages and Linguistics, LavLang 30, University of Brighton (incl. poster on the Queer Linguistic Corpus)

“Representations of the ‘Toxic’. Usage and Evaluation in Linguistic Community and Media Discourse”
ICLaVE|12, Vienna, together with Dr. Toke Hoffmeister (Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg)

“Empirical evidence on the reference to non-binary people in German”
Challenging the Binary – Non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-neutral language, International conference, University College London, online

“New insights into stereotypical sounding ‘gay’ in German – and some thoughts beyond”
Lavender Languages and Linguistics 29, Boise State University, online

“Mapping and analyzing data with the online application REDE Sprach-GIS”
Den elfte nordiska dialektologkonferensen, Reykjavík

“Perzeptionstests – Diskussion des Einflusses von Fragen und Kategorien auf die Wahrnehmung und Bewertung lautlicher Variation”
Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P) 22, University of Jena

“‘Pronomen sind geisteskrank.’ – Angabe von Pronomen in E-Mail-Signaturen: Praktiken, Diskurse und Einstellungen”
Pronomen, Nomen und Personen: Gebrauchsbasierte Perspektiven auf Personenreferenz und -adressierung; conference of the research group “Praktiken der Personenreferenz”, University of Münster

“Ich stehe jetzt auf Männer – Deixis in Coming-out-Erzählungen”
Annual Conference of the German Association for Applied Linguistics (GAL), section: Soziolinguistik – Deixis, Lüneburg

“Wortkarge Norddeutsche und geschwätzige Süddeutsche – metasprachliche Grenzziehungen hinsichtlich Verbosität”
138th Annual Meeting of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Halle (Saale)

“U-Bahnansagen der BVG – soziophonetische Konstruktion eines regionalen oder internationalen Berlins?”
8th Congress of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

“Schwule Geier und transsexuelle Hyänen – linguistische Zugänge zu ‘queeren’ Tieren”
Workshop: Tierlinguistik, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

“Cringe & Masturbation – die Schamlust der Selbstbefriedigung”
Cringe workshop, University of Greifswald, together with Miriam Hinterholzer (Institute of German Studies, Universität Hamburg)

“Queering Linguistik oder Queerlinguistik? – Zu gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und Mehrwert queerer Ansätze in der Linguistik”
24th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK), Hanover

“Schwester – Form und Funktion der Gender Inversion bei Charming Boys”
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (ALP), Annual Conference 2024 – Genderpragmatik, Bochum

“Regionaler Sprachgebrauch junger Sprecher aus der Großstadt”
Phonetik & Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bern

“‘Schwule’ Prosodie? – Zur indexikalischen Funktion prosodischer Merkmale”
Annual Conference of the German Association for Applied Linguistics (GAL), section: Phonetik und Sprechwissenschaft – Prosodie in linguistischer/nicht-linguistischer Funktion, Mainz

“They, Dey oder Xier? Empirische Evidenzen für die Referenz auf nicht-binäre Menschen im Deutschen”
Workshop: Mind the (Gender) Gap – Interdisziplinäre Ansätze zum Umgang mit der Lücke, Kiel

“SOS – Subjektiv-objektsprachliche Spektren”
Conference LaienWissenSprache, Kiel, together with Dr. Juliane Limper (Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Dr. Brigitte Ganswindt (Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg)

“Niederdeutsch in Hessen – phonetisch-phonologische Auswertungen niederdeutsch intendierter Wenkersätze aus Hessen”
132nd Annual Meeting of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Marburg

“Wer spricht noch Plattdeutsch? – REDE-Analysen zum norddeutschen Sprachraum”
7th Early-Career Colloquium of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Paderborn, together with Lisa-Marie Smit

“Rhein-Mainisierung – zur Neustrukturierung im hessischen Sprachraum”
6th Congress of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen e. V. (IGDD), Marburg

“Niederdeutsch in Hamburger Straßennamen”
131st Annual Meeting of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Kiel

“Regionalsprachliche Entwicklungen im Zentralhessischen”
7th Colloquium of the Forum Sprachvariation and 5th Early-Career Colloquium of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung (VndS), Leipzig

“Das REDE SprachGIS – Analysen zum brandenburgischen Sprachraum”
129th Annual Meeting of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Stendal, together with Prof. Dr. Roland Kehrein (Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Dr. Juliane Limper (Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg)

“Sprachvariation im Rhein-Main-Gebiet”
5th Congress of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen e. V. (IGDD), Luxembourg

“Gay Language”
1st Symposium on Lavender Linguistics and Queer Identities, Düsseldorf, together with Simon Falk

“Niederdeutsch auf Rügen”
128th Annual Meeting of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Tallinn

“Sprachwechsel in Brandenburg – eine Analyse von Wenkerbogen”
6th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG), Kiel

“Sprachvariation in der Wetterau – Büdingen”
5th Colloquium of the Forum Sprachvariation and 2nd Early-Career Colloquium of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Marburg

“Schüler:innen oder Schüler? – Zu den Beziehungen von Sprache und Geschlecht”
Wir wollen’s wissen – event series of Universität Hamburg at schools

“Sprache und Geschlecht – Hintergründe, Zusammenhänge und Praxis”
Lecture series marking 425 years of the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium, Büdingen

“Queere und queersensible Sprache – Einblicke aus der Forschung”
Schulgespräche plus: Queeroffene Schule #3 – Auf die Sprache kommt es an, University of Tübingen

“Mut, ‘anders’ zu sprechen – Perspektiven auf Stimme und Geschlecht”
Night of the Profs, Kiel University (CAU)

“Die Stimme ist super wichtig für die eigene Identität – Soziophonetische Annäherungen an trans Stimmen im Deutschen”
Event series: Zur Debatte, Philipps-Universität Marburg

“Schüler:innen oder Schüler? – Zu den Beziehungen von Sprache und Geschlecht”
Wir wollen’s wissen – event series of Universität Hamburg at schools

“Gaydar – Erkennen wir die sexuelle Identität an der Stimme?”
Vorlesung für alle (Lecture for Everyone) – part of the event series of Universität Hamburg, TONALi-Saal

“Queerlinguistik – ein kurzer Überblick und ein Fokus auf sprachliche Nicht-Binarität”
Queer Week – Department of English, American and Celtic Studies (IAAK), University of Bonn

“Professor:innen, Generalin und Kollegium – zu Hintergründen, Auswirkungen und Relevanz geschlechtergerechter Sprache”
“Genderperspektiven (neu) denken?!”, event series of the Faculty of Education, Universität Hamburg

“Gaydar – Erkennen wir die sexuelle Identität an der Stimme?”
Wissen vom Fass, Hamburg

“Schüler:innen oder Schüler? – Zu den Beziehungen von Sprache und Geschlecht”
Wir wollen’s wissen – event series of Universität Hamburg at schools

“Queer in Daten, Medien & Sprache”
Diversity Days of Universität Hamburg, online, together with Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher (Universität Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Elisa Linseisen (Universität Hamburg)

“Geschlechtergerechte Sprache – zu den Zusammenhängen von Sprache und Geschlecht”
Diversity Days of Universität Hamburg, online

“Geschlechtergerechte Sprache – oder zum Zusammenhang von Sprache und Geschlecht”
Information event, Division 3, Central Administration, Universität Hamburg, online

“Erfahrungsbericht: Äußere Einflussfaktoren und strategische Entwicklung und Verankerung von Diversity an einer Exzellenzuniversität”
Forum Diversity 2022 – HIS-Institut für Hochschulentwicklung e. V., Hanover

“Sprache und Geschlecht – wie Geschlechtervorstellungen unsere Sprache prägen”
“Genderperspektiven (neu) denken?!”, event series of the Faculty of Education, Universität Hamburg, online

“Sprache und Geschlecht – wie Geschlechtervorstellungen unsere Sprache prägen”
Diversity Days at Universität Hamburg, online

“Sprache in Hessen”
Event series “Deutsch 3.0: Debatten über Sprache und ihre Zukunft, Deutsch Regional – Beeinflussen Dialekte heute noch unseren Alltag?” of the Goethe-Institut, Marburg

Regular studio guest on the live programme “Hallo Hessen” (hr-fernsehen) on language variation and dialects in Hesse; 05/2026, 09/2024, 10/2023, 11/2022, 05/2022, 06/2020, 11/2019, 11/2018, 02/2018, 11/2017

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This website is hosted by STRATO GmbH, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany. When you visit the website, the data listed under “Server log files” is processed on STRATO’s servers.

The hosting provider is used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the secure and reliable provision of this website.

Each time this website is accessed, the server automatically collects and stores information transmitted by your browser. This includes: browser type and version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer, date and time of the server request, and IP address.

This data is required to deliver the website to your browser and to ensure the security and stability of the website, in particular to detect and fend off attacks. It is not combined with other data sources, and no user profiles are created.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the technically error-free and secure provision of this website. The log files are automatically deleted by the hosting provider after a short period, unless longer retention is necessary to investigate a specific security incident.

This website does not set cookies and does not use any tracking, analytics, advertising or social media services. No content from third-party providers (such as web fonts, videos, maps or content delivery networks) is embedded.

To display emojis correctly, the software used (WordPress) stores a small technical value in your browser’s session storage that records which emojis your browser supports. This value contains no personal data, is not transmitted to us or to third parties, and is automatically deleted when you close the browser tab. This storage is strictly necessary for displaying the website (§ 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG).

If you contact us by email, we process your email address, the content of your message and any further information you provide in order to handle your enquiry.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your enquiry relates to a contract or pre-contractual measures, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in responding to your enquiry. We delete your data as soon as your enquiry has been fully dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply. Emails are received and stored via our email provider (Google).

This website contains links to external websites (e.g. to publications and institutions). No data is transmitted to these websites when you visit our site. Only when you click on a link do you leave our website; the respective operator is then responsible for processing your data.

For security reasons, this site uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by “https://” in your browser’s address bar and by the lock symbol. When encryption is active, the data you transmit cannot be read by third parties.

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data: right of access (Art. 15), right to rectification (Art. 16), right to erasure (Art. 17), right to restriction of processing (Art. 18) and right to data portability (Art. 20). An informal email to the address given above is sufficient to exercise your rights.

Insofar as we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will then no longer process your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. A list of the German supervisory authorities is available at:
Addresses of the data protection authorities (bfdi.bund.de)

November 2026