Dr. Hildegard Piegeler gives courses on Berlin as a multi-cultural and multi-religious city.

She studied German literature, philosophy and religious studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and obtained her doctorate in 2008. From 2002 to 2005 she was a research fellow at the department of in German Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has been teaching in the program for exchange students since 2011. Her most important publications include: Gelebte Religionen. Untersuchungen zur sozialen Gestaltungskraft religiöser Vorstellungen und Praktiken in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2004; Von den „hautes Sciences“ zur Esoterik. Phil. Diss. 2008 (Microfiche); Tarot. Bilderwelten der Esoterik. München: Fink, 2010.