Isabel HABICHT

Dr. Tanja-Isabel Habicht is an Associate Professor in the Languages & Cultures Department at HEC and has been responsible for German in the HEC entrance exam since 2013. Her classes focus on geopolitics, current events in German-speaking countries, the transformation of society, sustainable development within companies and on economic developments in Germany. More generally, her classes aim to present German culture and its forms of artistic, social and political expression.

Her current research focuses on contemporary and comparative approaches (Germany, France, Israel) to sites of memory and commemorative discourses, and to urban spaces in transformation.

Her publications focus on the constitution of a German identity in the 19th century, narrativity and fictionality in medieval literature, cross-perceptions of France and Germany, the myth of Rome in contemporary literature, more specifically on interactive methods of language practice.

Before coming to HEC, Isabel Habicht taught German at the Fondation nationale des Sciences Politiques (she is still a lecturer there), at Paris IV - Sorbonne, at Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, at École Polytechnique, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, at the University of Caen - Basse Normandie (where she was a DAAD lecturer), at the University of Metz and at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Dr. Habicht holds a doctorate from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (2008), her thesis is a comparative study on narrativity and fictionality in medieval literature: Zwerge als Träger metafiktionaler Diskurse in deutschen und französischen Texten zwischen 1200 -1600 (publisheb by Winter/ Heidelberg 2010). She studied Germanic Studies with the option DaF (German as a foreign language) at Freiburg and at the University of the Sorbonne - Paris IV (Maîtrise LLCE Allemand 2000) and studied philology and Romance literature (French/Italian; Staatsexamen 2002, Magister 2003).

Isabel Habicht worked as Event Manager for the German Embassy, Paris, for the DAAD, Paris office and was Project Manager at the Goethe Institut Paris (2010-2013).

In addition to her native German, Isabel speaks French (C2), English (C1), Italian (in loss: B1) and Hebrew (in acquisition: A1)

She is married to journalist Raphael Elmaleh and has two wonderful children, Elia and Merav.

If she finds the time, she plays guitar (baroque and French variety) and tries to go to theatre plays and to the opera, a major reason for her decision to live in Paris.