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Paul Hoegger is Coordinator for German at the Language Centre of the University of Cambridge where he has developed a range of general and specialised Language courses, notably Academic reading courses for postgraduates, which he also teaches.

He is Affiliated Lecturer for the German Section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

He is also Principal Examiner and setter for the German Pre-U paper at University of Cambridge International Examinations and teaches short courses in German literature at the University’s Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall.

Originally from Bern in Switzerland, he settled in Germany in his late teens to become a ballet dancer. At 35 he moved to Cambridge to read Modern and Medieval Languages.

He holds a BA in French and German and an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Cambridge and has been researching eighteenth-century German drama for his PhD project at the German department of Cambridge University.

Since 2012 Paul has been supervising Germanists at Fitzwilliam College, where he is Director of Studies for Modern Languages.