He is a busy and attentive allrounder with extensive experience in language teaching and language school organization. Throughout his master studies with a focus on German as a foreign language, Modern History and Political Science, he was dedicated to the spreading of the German language and does not stop teaching German. As a Berlin Newbie, who enjoys the international flair of Berlin since 2006, he always happily gathers experience in countless language courses.

Since February 2016, he brings his expertise about language communication and implementation of language courses into the organization of your favorite language school “Kapitel Zwei Berlin”. He always listens or gives advice, and loves the German language and grammar.

In his spare time, we can see him reading, thinking or giving advice in small bars in Berlin Friedrichshain, when he is not walking through the Berlin countryside or visiting other hiking places in the world. Besides language, he likes to listen to music (almost around the clock) or bakes cakes for the office team.

Environmental and animal welfare are very dear to him, as well as empathy with others.

Our darling Gerrit is a valued asset to our team, with his personality and his work approach, since June 2019. After successfully completing a bachelor’s degree in

a) General Linguistics
b) German Studies
c) with additional qualification in German as a foreign language and
d) working as a language learning advisor

it took him to the Cultural Capital Berlin. At last. It was about time too! Here he enjoys the freedom of the city, the many possibilities and great variety of art, culture and people.

No wonder his path led him to Kapitel Zwei Berlin, a language school with connections to many interesting people from all over the world.

In addition to his native language German, he also speaks fluent English, a little Spanish and has basic knowledge of French, Dutch and Latin.Yes.
So we now know what “”Exercitatio artem parat.”” means, “”Practice makes perfect!”” -> Our credo in the field of flower care since Gerrit’s entry into Kapitel Zwei.
His green thumb ensures the survival of many plants at our language school.
What he achieves within the world of flora, he also achieves with (attention Latin:) Homo sapiens: He is your competent contact person for all course and exam matters within Kapitel Zwei, always friendly, helpful and very happy to help you during our opening hours.

Laura has been part of the Kapitel Zwei team since April 2021. She originally comes from Berlin, but right after finishing school, she decides to travel all over the world. On one hand because traveling is great. She gains a lot of experiences and gets to know interesting people (for example while hitchhiking from Barcelona to Berlin or at Goa parties in India). On the other hand, because at this point in time she has no concrete plans for the future and wants to enjoy her wonderful youth.

Back in Berlin, the plan is in place: she studies cultural studies and Spanish philology at the University of Potsdam and discovers her affinity for Latin American culture. She spends her semester abroad in Costa Rica. There she not only falls in love with the country, but also with someone special, whom she has since married. In between she travels all over Central America and a few other exciting places in South America.

After an internship at the Casa de la Cultura in Nicoya, Costa Rica, she is drawn back to her home country as a real Berliner and fortunately ends up at Kapitel Zwei.

She now lives on the outskirts of Berlin, enjoys nature and living together with three dogs and three cats. But she also enjoys being out and about in the city, where she enjoys the diverse, cultural offerings of Berlin. Yes, bars and clubs are also part of the culture.

Annalena has been working at Kapitel Zwei since October 2017. She is the friendly face of customer services and enhances the team as our all-round talent for languages.

Annalena loves languages and art. It will therefore come as no surprise that she studied the Romanic languages as well as media and art history at the University of Osnabruck. She lived in Italy, France and Spain for over ten years, where she worked as a language teacher, translator, cultural manager and – another of her great passions – as chef. She recently returned to Germany and is discovering her country from a new perspective. She speaks fluent English, Spanish and Italian and is currently having a go at the Hebrew language.

She likes to spend her free time – German weather permitting – outdoors. Either with a good book, with friends, at one of the numerous Berlin flea markets or with her own small family in Neukölln. She is always open for lively discussions, likes to laugh and appreciates an after-work beer when her day’s work is done.

Mathias is our “sports friend”. He has been working in customer service at Kapitel Zwei since March 2021 and loves riding his bike to work in the morning.

Born in Rostock, growing up in Magdeburg on the Elbe, he made a name for himself in competitive sports in his younger years. Rowing lead him to numerous national and international competitions, enabled him to visit China, New Zealand, the USA and many other countries for competitions and training camps.

After completing his studies in European history with a minor in German, he was drawn to Asia for tourism. Holidays in Japan and Thailand were followed by a year-long stay in Japan in 2018. In Tokyo he taught English and at the same time got to know the metropolis and its people. The experiences in the language school over there brought him to Berlin and Kapitel Zwei, at the beginning of 2021.His language skills include German, fluent English, a little French and basic knowledge of Latin and Japanese.

In his spare time, Mathias likes to be active on inline skates or on his bike. But he also makes the best out of rainy days by relaxing with movies or video games.

Our versatile Katrin has been enriching the Kapitel Zwei team since March 2020. Thus, she was able to experience our company right from the beginning of the corona pandemic and bravely persevered.

We consider her to be our cool haven within our day-to-day business and is always willing to lend a sympathetic ear and offer advice.
Kapitel Zwei benefits from her many years of experience in customer service, e.g. at another educational institution and its affiliated language school.

In 2019 she made a short stopover in Lufthansa’s customer service. There she finds her second, great passion: traveling and getting to know new cultures. She originally studied architecture, but in the end, she lives out her creativity in the construction of new travel routes.
She particularly enjoys traveling in Eastern Europe and not by plane or bicycle, no, by train.

During a sabbatical, she would like to explore Russia, travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway. And of course, in order to communicate better, she started learning Russian in 2020. Maybe you can help her? By the way, Katrin speaks fluent English as well as some French and Spanish.

In her spare time, she likes to be creative: she sews and makes patterns for her own hand-made clothing. She likes pottering about and tinkering.
You can also find her (outside of lockdown due to Corona) once a week in the various arthouse cinemas in the city, preferably in Art House and Independent Films.

Katrin is from Berlin – albeit without the typical accent – always likes to be on the go, but also loves being at home in Pankow.

Our lovely, always smiling, Antonella is half Italian, half Colombian and lives in Berlin since 2003. The answers to questions about her heritage is therefore very diverse as she feels at home in a total of three cultures. After all, she is also a Berliner.

Antonella holds a bachelor’s degree in “Italian studies” and a master’s degree in linguistics, she studied at the Free University (FU) Berlin. At FU Berlin, she met our nice colleague Sina, who, luckily for you and us, brought her to the Kapitel Zwei Team.

Antonella’s greatest passion is languages. She speaks six languages ​​(Spanish, Italian, German, English, Portuguese and a little bit of French).
She would like to learn more languages ​​and is trying to learn Arabic. Very difficult!
She loves communicating with people and making them laugh and is therefore the perfect person for our leisure events and course trips. Antonella enjoys travelling and spending time with the locals of the respective destination.

As a true Berliner, she also has a true love-hate relationship with the city. In 2018, she was tired of the city and emigrated to Thailand for a year to work as an English teacher in a kindergarten. “Baby Shark” is still ringing in her ears today! Now Berlin has her back again and she enjoys her other hobbies, namely food (cooking) and dancing. She loves spending time with her friends, relaxing with them and chatting about all sorts of things during an evening meal. why don’t you go over and chat with her too?

She has been enriching our team since June 2019 and was able to make positive use of the corona pandemic and relocated her home office to Colombia for five months. We celebrate her return to this day!

Buongiorno! Annalisa is a national treasure. Luckily we were able to woo her away from Italy, and she has been a part of our Kapitel Zwei team since August 2021.

She was born in warm, sunny Rome, not in Switzerland but in Italy, just an info for anyone who missed geography class. As a true Roman, she always appears in beautiful armor at the office, and she is also a lover of art, sculpture, history and languages.

Before her job at Kapitel Zwei, Annalisa studied Latin, English, French and Spanish at a modern language high school. She can also explain our course program in fluent German to you. In addition, she traveled to various countries such as France, England, Austria, Spain and, of course, Germany. Her talent for languages culminates in her studies as an interpreter and translator. She is trying her first steps into the Russian language in order to express her opinion to Putin soon.

She has been living in Berlin for 3 years now, which of course has influenced her appearance: tattoos, piercings and chic hairstyles adorn her. She trains her brain in museums, art books and on site at Kapitel Zwei. If she is not with us, you will find her by the sea – preferably in summer.

In 2010 she moved from a village of 20,000 residents in Lower Saxony to Berlin to study. Straight after four years, she was the proud owner of a bachelor title in ‘Italian studies‘ and from that even knows Economics and Law. She spent one year of her studies in Rome and hence understands how you feel and what it means to set foot in a foreign country and trying to find your way around.

Besides German and Italian, she also speaks English and French and is interested in the Arabic language. She has been working for Kapitel Zwei since October 2014, now part-time, and is a real treasure for our customer service. She looks forward to meeting students from all over the world and has much fun organising your desired course program, with or without accommodation.

In her free time, Sina is involved in animal welfare, especially with animals from Romania. Since May 2016 she is the proud adoptive mother of the school’s mascot Zeta. A small mixed breed dog. Apart from that, she is very fond of traveling and occasionally brings her inline-skates with her on her travels. You might see her in beautiful Prenzlauer Berg, but watch out, you might miss her as she speeds past you.

Fanny has been part of the Kapitel Zwei Büro team since November 2017 and, after a long sabbatical, now supports us in digital customer service via email from her mobile home office – from anywhere in the world.

Her passion is travelling. That is why the in Thuringia born Fanny went to Australia for a “Work & Travel” program right after she had finished school. There, while working with young people from all over the world, she discovered her interests in foreign cultures and languages. Afterwards, she graduated with a bachelor from “International Business Communication” as a foreign language assistant in England.

After a professional short stop, working as an assistant in a solicitor’s office, in Frankfurt am Main, she was drawn back into the wide world. For three years she was working on different cruise liners, looking after the guests and being a tour guide. “Europa, Asia, Africa, Australia and America…“ – following the song of the German band “Die Ärzte”, Fanny travelled across the seven seas.

But also, in her private life she is busy travelling: She has gone on a pilgrimage along the Way of St. James in Spain, she has been on a coach trip through South America, and she visited the Sakura in Japan. Each country and all people have welcomed her with open arms. That extremely positive experience is, what she wishes to pass on to you. She’ll support you in finding your way through Berlin, and she’ll do so with the right amount of sentiment. After all, she has been in the situation herself a lot of times, not being able to speak a foreign language very well.

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Sabrina has been working at Kapitel Zwei since April 2017 – part-time and for the most part at the weekends. She answers all your questions online and does qualitatively valuable work in the course management sector.

Sabrina is a fully-fledged resident of Berlin and loves this city. She moved from the idyllic town of Werder following her dual Bachelor degree specialising in Trade and commerce to the HWR Berlin, then to Potsdam and finally Berlin. She has trained as an actuary (Chamber of industry and commerce) as well as having completed a degree in business studies.

She has to date always worked with people. This includes her job as a waitress, which spanned ten years. We appreciate her patience, her professional friendly attitude and her eye for detail. Kapitel Zwei simply had to welcome her into our team.

She is passionate about Asia. She loves to travel with her rucksack and is fascinated by real life in other countries. In this area again she also benefits from her desire to glance behind the scenes. The Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka are still on her list. In her free time she does power sport, not many can keep pace with her.