Dr. Philipp Marquardt — Curriculum Vitae

I. Leadership Appointments

2024 – present — Managing Director, Verein für Volksbildung e. V. / Volkshochschule Reutlingen GmbH / Musikschule der Volkshochschule Reutlingen GmbH / Reportageschule Reutlingen
2019 – 2024 — Head of the Language Department, Volkshochschule Reutlingen
2020 – 2024 — Founder and Coordinator, Kooperation Online-Sprachkurse (KOS)
2016 – 2019 — Head of the Integration Course Office, Volkshochschule Rottweil

2014 — PhD, Comparative Literature / German Studies, University of Tübingen — summa cum laude
2010 — Magister Artium, German Philology, History, and Political Science, University of Tübingen
2009 – 2010 — German Studies, Brown University
2003 — Abitur, Staatliche Feintechnikschule Schwenningen mit Technischem Gymnasium

2024 – present — Managing Director, vhsrt - Volkshochschule Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
2019 – 2024 — Head of the Language Department, vhsrt - Volkshochschule Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
2016 – 2019 — Head of the Integration Office, Volkshochschule Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany
2015 – 2016 — Copywriter / Concept Developer, ZWEI14, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
2010 – 2015 — Lecturer / Research and Teaching Staff, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
2012 – 2013 — Substitute Junior Professor, German Literature, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
2009 – 2010 — Lecturer / Teaching Assistant, German Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2007 – 2009 — Student Assistant, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Strategic leadership across adult education, music education, civic learning, vocational education, and cultural education.
Responsibility for multi-institution development, personnel leadership, program strategy, public mission, and organizational transformation.
Development of digital, hybrid, and AI-supported formats in adult education.
Management experience across language education, German as a second language, integration courses, program planning, and continuing education.

2026 — vhsrt entdecken: public overview of current vhsrt projects, ideas, and networks — including the planetarium project, the Bildungsmittelpunkt Betzingen, and a digital literacy self-test. www.vhsrt.de/entdecken
2026 — KI-Avatar vhsrt: AI-supported educational assistant project combining institutional knowledge, RAG systems, language interaction, and public education use cases.
2020 – 2024 — Kooperation Online-Sprachkurse (KOS): nationwide cooperation model for online language courses among German adult education centers.
2019 – 2024 — Expansion of hybrid and online language learning formats at Volkshochschule Reutlingen.
2016 – 2019 — Organizational development and administration of integration course structures at Volkshochschule Rottweil.

Acquisition and management of third-party funding for innovation, language learning, and institutional development projects.
Development of publicly relevant education projects at the intersection of language, participation, digital transformation, and AI.

Marquardt, P. H. (2026). Berufliche Bildung auf starken Säulen unter einem Dach: Wie eine vhs ihre Stärken zum System macht. dis.kurs. Das Magazin der Volkshochschulen, 33(1), 32–33. https://www.volkshochschule.de/medien/downloads/diskurs/2026-01-diskurs-fachkraeftegewinnung-web.pdf
Marquardt, P. H. (2025). Zukunft organisieren, Unschärfe nutzen: Volkshochschulen 2026ff. weiter bilden. DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung, (4), 33–36. https://www.die-bonn.de/id/42396
Marquardt, P. H. (2021). Die Zukunft des Sprachenlernens: Techniklernen als Lerntechnik. In Zukunft im Blick: Hybrider Unterricht (pp. 6–9). Ernst Klett Sprachen. https://www.klett-sprachen.de/downloads/30867/zukunft-im-blick-hybrider-unterricht/pdf
Marquardt, P. H. (2015). Raplightenment: Aufklärung und HipHop im Dialog (Studien zur Popularmusik). transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3253-8/raplightenment/
Marquardt, P. H. (2013). Warum Glokalisierung? Ein Plädoyer für die Literaturwissenschaft. In C. Gößling-Arnold et al. (Eds.), Globale Kulturen – Kulturen der Globalisierung (pp. 227–238). Nomos. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/40196

Lectures, workshops, and internal trainings on artificial intelligence in adult education.
Public and professional contributions on the future of language learning, digital transformation, and lifelong learning.
Academic teaching in German Studies, Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and German as a foreign language.
Program development and educational consulting for adult learners, instructors, and institutional partners.

Member, Federal Working Group on Cooperation, Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband.
Member, Stiftungsrat der Dr. Rainer Märklin Stiftung and Jochen Stephan Stiftung.
Network and partnership work across adult education centers, municipalities, public stakeholders, universities, and cultural institutions.