The winners were handed their certificates by the Vice Rectors in front of an audience of some 2,000 graduates at the Universitätsfest ceremony at KUNST!RASEN in Bonn’s Rheinaue park on July 11. “Inspirational teaching is about more than imparting knowledge,” said Professor Klaus Sandmann, Vice Rector for Teaching, Learning and University Development, at the awards ceremony. “It sparks students’ curiosity, challenges them to think for themselves and gives them the confidence to forge their own paths. Through your hard work and dedication, you are creating precisely these spaces for learning, for which you deserve my most heartfelt thanks.”
The University of Bonn began awarding teaching prizes as long ago as 2011, honoring teachers who inject fresh ideas into their courses to keep them evolving, who help to shape degree programs or who trial innovative teaching formats. This is why they make a real difference: through their commitment, their creativity and their mission to convey knowledge to their students in the best way they possibly can.
2026’s prizewinners are:
Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional, and Engineering Sciences
Professor Sarah Egert, Institute of Nutritional and Food Science
Bonn Center for Teacher Education
Theresa Strombach, Department of German and Comparative Literature and Culture
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Dominik Schlauß, Department of Old Testament Studies
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Dr. Marcus A. Hubert, Pharmacy Department
Julia Klumparendt, Earth Sciences Department
Professor Jennifer Schober, Physics and Astronomy Department
Professor Christoph Thiele, Molecular Biomedicine Department
Faculty of Medicine
Professor Stefanie Kürten, Institute for Anatomy—Chair of Neuroanatomy
Professor Tobias Raupach, Institute for Medical Education
Faculty of Arts
Dr. Lucas Curstädt, Department of Language, Media Studies, and Musicology—Media Studies and Musicology Section
Dr. Ghattas Eid, Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies
Dr. Sang-Yi O-Rauch, Department of Oriental and Asian Studies
Faculty of Law and Economics
Professor Alexander Scheuch, Department of Law—Institute of Commercial and Economic Law
Assistant Professor Julia Mink, Department of Economics—Institute for Applied Microeconomics