University of Hamburg Business SchoolPresentation of the Teaching Award

15 April 2026

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The winners of the Teaching Award

On behalf of the Dean’s Office, Prof. Dr Wolfgang Brüggemann presented the School’s Teaching Award for the 2025/26 winter semester to a total of 17 outstanding lecturers in recognition of their courses.

The Vice Dean for Education, Prof. Dr Wolfgang Brüggemann, has presented the University of Hamburg Business School Teaching Award to a total of 17 professors and academic staff. The award, which was first presented in 2025 and has since been awarded every semester, recognizes outstanding courses in the fixed categories of seminars/current issues/colloquia, tutorials (compulsory and compulsory-elective) and lectures (compulsory and compulsory-elective).

The winners are selected on the basis of student evaluations of seminars and lectures across the entire range of courses offered by the Business School.

Marina Saisaler, Education Coordinator and Team Leader of the Academic Office: “We are delighted for the award winners and, furthermore, pleased to see an increase in participation in the form of applications submitted by members of the teaching staff.”

The award winners in detail:

Category: Seminars/Current Issues/Colloquia

1st place: Dr. Claudia Höck and Dr. Julia Diana Lenk
Cases in Digital Marketing

Category: Exercise (compulsory)

1st place: Dr. Konstantin Wilckens
Übung zu Bilanzen - Z2 - 2

2nd place: Fiona Sauerbier
Übung zu Grundlagen des Operations Research - Z1/Z2 - 2

3rd place Katharina Born, Robin Frasch, Claus Hegmann-Napp, Magdalena Heynicke and Henrike Pudlik
Übungen zu Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung

Category: Exercise (compulsory elective)

1st place: Jan Heinemann
Tutorial Sales Promotion Management - 1

2nd place: Annalena Kaakschlief
Übung zu Special Issues in Auditing

3rd place: Stephanie Kitzler
Übung zu Qualitative Methods for Business and Management

3rd place: Stephanie Kitzler
Übung zu Technology and Innovation Management

Category: Lecture (compulsory)

1st place: Prof. Dr. Karen Gedenk and Prof. Dr. Mark Heitmann
Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung Z1/Z2

Category: Lecture (compulsory elective)

1st place: Dr. Tobias Vlćek
Applied Optimization

2nd place: Prof. Dr. Yannik Gehrke
Controlling und Unternehmenssteuerung im digitalen Zeitalter

3rd place: Prof. Dr. Nicole Ratzinger-Sakel
Special Issues in Auditing