Dr Mikhaila Crous | Head of Section & Lecturer
Tel: +27 11 717 4214 | E-mail: mikhaila.crous@wits.ac.za
ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4802-7053
Mikhaila Crous is a Lecturer and Head of German Studies. She earned her PhD in 2023 from Wits University with a dissertation entitled: Tatort Südafrika: Zu Raumkonstellationen in ausgewählten Kriminalromanen von Max Annas und Deon Meyer. Ein Beitrag zur curricularen Transformation für Deutsch im südafrikanischen Hochschulkontext. She teaches German language and literature, researches amongst others on Afrika-Krimis (African crime fiction) and is interested in curriculum development of German Studies in South Africa.
Prof. Anette Horn
Tel. +27 (0)11 717 4212 | E-mail: anette.horn@wits.ac.za
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5352-2947
Anette Horn was born in Cape Town and received her PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1998. She spent two years on an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship in Berlin from 2000 until 2002. Since 2005, she has been teaching in the German Department at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Rico Ehren | Visiting Lecturer
Tel. +27 (0)11 717 9332 | E-mail: rico.ehren@daad-lektorat.de
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9823-6270
Rico Ehren (he/him) joined Wits University as a Visiting Lecturer for German Studies - supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) - in August 2026. After completing his university degree (1st State Examination for Secondary School Teaching, equivalent to M. Ed.) in 2019, he worked in various universities in Germany, South Africa and Ukraine.
Mrs Marilyn Jousten
Administrator
Office: Solomon Mahlangu House Room 3153
Tel. +27 (0)11 717 4211
E-mail: marilyn.jousten@wits.ac.za
Support Staff
Ms Marilyn Jousten
Administrator
E-mail: marilyn.jousten@wits.ac.za
Tel: +27 11 717 4211
Honorary and visiting positions
Dr. Natasha Engelbrecht
Position: Sessional Lecturer
E-mail: natasha.engelbrecht@wits.ac.za