1950

born in Saßnitz (Ruegen).

1974-1978

linguistics work as a scientific assistant at the university of Greifswald

1978

doctorate with "magna cum laude" to the PhD with a paper on text linguistics.

1978-1984

managing director of the German language center of the GDR in Helsinki.

1982

foundation of the yearbook on Germanic studies for Northern Europe "The Ginkgobaum” (editorship with Peter Findeisen, Stockholm; Helsinki).

Work as a senior scientific assistant in the department of German Studies of Greifswald University and leader of the international university summer course.

1988-1989

acquisition of the "facultas docendi" and habilitation. Scientific secretary of the deputy rector for social sciences at Greifswald University.

31.10.1991

leader of the department for Languages and Communication at BFG (professional training centre, Greifswald).

1993-1996

management of a German Polish cooperation project for the retraining of Russian teachers into German teachers.

1995

election to the international committee of FEDE (European Federation of Schools, Geneva).

1996

member of the steering group for a transnational LEONARDO project

1996

honorary professorship at Szczecin University (Poland).

1996-2002

cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation as a seminar leader

concerning the following questions:

The consequences of the Internet for the communicative behaviour

Aspects of intercultural communication

The role of stereotypes and prejudices.

2000

professor at the Institute of German Philology of Szczecin University (Poland).

managing director of the German Institute for Languages and Economy (Szczecin, Poland).

2003

re-election as a member of the executive council of the

European Federation of Schools (FEDE) (up to 2005 Assistant General Secretary).

director for education and further education at an Education Center.

appointment to professor at Szczecin University (Poland).

2005

appointment to professor at University of Applied Sciences of Wałcz (Poland).

Fields: Marketing communication, knowledge communication, applied linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, intercultural communications

Selected papers:

-Ryszard Lipczuk; Pawel Mecner; Werner Westphal (2000): Lexicon of Modern Linguistics, Szczecin.

-Jürgen Schiewe; Ryszard Lipczuk; Krzystof Nerlicki; Werner Westphal (2006; 2011): Communcation for Europe I /II, Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Bern , Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien.

-Michał Jasiułewicz, Peter Garbe, Werner Westphal (2007): Science and business in discourse, Koszalin (Poland).

- Werner Westphal (2011): Language-Policy in Colours of GDR, Finland 1978-1984.

>A case study, Dr. Kovač, Hamburg.

- Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska; Werner Westphal; Alicja Gąszczyk (2012): Multilingualism and Language-Acquisition in Theory and Practice, Dr. Kovač, Hamburg.

- Participation in international meetings such as in Turku (Finland) 2007, 2008 (European day of Entrepreneur, Finland) with statements about problems of intercultural communications and innovation management.

2005-2008

senior consultant “International Marketing” of a consulting company (UdW-Ltd.).

2008

Dr. Westphal-Consulting.