Prof. Dr. Christian Rathmann

Christian Rathmann is the project leader of the DGS-Corpus project. He is a member of the executive team and acts in management. To his wide scope of duties belongs the linguistic supervision of the project, data collection building up a network of contact persons and the promotion of junior scientists. His further field of tasks are public relations on various stages and representing the DGS-Corpus project on international meetings.

Thomas Hanke

Thomas Hanke is a member of the executive team since the project started. He holds the position of the project manager and is primarily responsible for the development of transcription tools and -conventions and the technical implementation of HamNoSys in these systems. Within his scope of duties he is also engaged in legal and ethic aspects of sign language corpora.

Susanne König

Susanne König has worked in the development of sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas since 1997. She has been a scientific project worker at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg since 2002. Since the DGS-Corpus project started she has been a member of the executive team. Her tasks are public relations, supervision and training of regional contact persons and training of student assistants amongst others.

Dr. Reiner Konrad

Reiner Konrad has been a research assistant at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg since 1993. He has been a member of the executive team of the DGS-Corpus project since the project started. His key activities are language documentation, corpus linguistic, lexicography and lexicology of sign languages and corpus-based lexicography of sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas. In 2009 he received his doctor´s degree.

Gabriele Langer

Gabriele Langer belongs to the executive team of the DGS-Corpus project from the very first. Her tasks within this project are the development of elicitation materials and -methods. She is also busy with conceptional enhancements in transcription, analysis and lexicographical description. Futhermore she develops training materials, does training courses and supervises the student assistants. Another task of hers is the documentation of the DGS-Corpus project.

Patricia Barbeito Rey-Geißler

Patricia Barbeito Rey-Geißler is state approved lecturer for Sign Language. She has taught German Sign Language and International Sign at various universities and other institutes.

Dolly Blanck

Dolly Blanck has been a member of the DGS-Corpus team since 2009. Before that she worked in the development of sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg.

She is engaged in HamNoSys, a transciption system for signs and offers trainings in that. Moreover she is working in transcription within the DGS-Corpus project and is supervising and training student assistants working in that field.

Ilona Hofmann

Ilona Hofmann has worked as a lecturer for sign language and in various projects on sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg. Her focuses were census, transcription and analysis. She was also an actor for sign language videos. She joined the DGS-Corpus team at the project start in 2009. Her tasks are transcription and supervising the student assistants.

Dr. Sung-Eun Hong

Sung-Eun Hong studied sign language at the University of Hamburg and wrote her dissertation about agreement verbs in Korean Sign Language. Before she joined the DGS-Corpus project she was a research assistant in the EU-project ViSiCAST. She belongs to the team of the DGS-Corpus project since April 2009. Her tasks are the preparation and coordination of elicitation materials. Sung-Eun Hong is currently on parental leave.

Olga Jeziorski

Olga Jeziorski is a member of the DGS-Corpus team right from the start. Her activities within the project besides transcription are the training and supervising of the student assistants working in the field of transcription. Furthermore she does the illustrations for the elicitation materials.

Lutz König

Lutz König has been a member of the DGS-Corpus team since 2009. His tasks are the training and supervision of contact persons and the support at censuses regarding technical issues and content. He supervises the student assistants and does quality checks of the transcriptions. Before he joined the team of the DGS-Corpus project he had worked in the development of various sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg.

Rie Nishio

Rie Nishio is a member of the DGS-Corpus project team right from the start. Her tasks are training and supervising of the student assistants as well as the the monitoring and improvement of transcripts. She is also engaged in the development and testing of elicitation materials. In the future she will address herself to the enhancement of transcription conventions.

Stephanie Vorwerk

Stephanie Vorwerk holds a degree in computer science and is a member of the DGS-Corpus team right from the start. Within the range of activies of her engagement in the DGS-Corpus project she supervises the technical aspects of the census with a main focus on the postproduction of the videodata. Furthermore she is responsible for the design, the technical implementation and updating the website of the project. In addition she also created the logo of the DGS-Corpus project. Another task of Stephanie Vorwerk was the design and the technical implementation of the user survey.

Sven Wagner

Sven Wagner received his degree in phonetics from the University of Hamburg at the end of 2008. He joined the DGS-Corpus project in february 2010. His key activities within the project are the iLex-database and the development of complex SQL-queries. He is also busy with the management of the corpus. This covers the enhancement of the iLex-database (esp. metadata) and the development of mechanisms for consistency checks.