Anne Lequy


Anne Lequy is a Professor for Specialized Communication – French at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and was Rector of this institution from 2014 to 2022.

Early life and education

Lequy was born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne in 1971. Following studies in German as a Foreign Language as well as English Language and Literature, she obtained a joint Franco-German doctorate from Paul Verlaine University – Metz and Leipzig University in 1999.

Career

Lequy has worked as a sworn interpreter and translator for German federal agencies and state authorities since 1998. She also worked as a Lecturer for French at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Since 2006 she has been Professor for Specialised Communication – French at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences with a research focus on Computer Supported Translation Teaching and Corpus Analysis. She was the Programme Manager of the International Master in "Legal Translation and Interpreting" of the Franco-German University until April 2010.
As prorector of Studies and Teaching from 2010 to 2014 she was responsible for the accreditation, new study programmes, quality of teaching and internationalisation. During this time she was the Project Manager of the Quality Pact for Teaching.
In 2014 Lequy became the first woman appointed to the position of Rector at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. She remained the only female Rector in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt until 2022. She was re-elected in February 2018.
From 2017 to 2022 she was project manager of the German Jordanian University in Germany. She became a member of the Board of the European University Association in spring 2021.

Personal life

Lequy is married and has two children. She lives with her family in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Works

Organisationsentwicklung in der Hochschullehre. Praxisberichte zum Qualitätspakt Lehre Projekt der Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, With Marianne Merkt, Michael A. Herzog, Yongjian Ding und Christa Wetzel, Bielefeld, W. Bertelsmann, 2020, "unbehaust"? Die Thematik des Topos in Werken wenig bekannter DDR-Autorinnen der siebziger und achtziger Jahre. Eine feministische Untersuchung Frankfurt am Main et al., Peter Lang, 2000, 645 p., Erstellung eines zentralen professoralen Personalentwicklungs- und Personalgewinnungskonzeptes der Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal : FH-Personal-Konzept-Projekt Z-PEGK-h2. Abschlussbericht.On Teaching Constitutions at German Higher Education Institutions – a Comparative Exploratory Study of a Selection of Strategic Conceptual Frameworks of Action. With Peter-Georg Albrecht, in: AOHER Application-oriented Higher Education Research. Ed. by Hefei University Anhui China. Nr. 4/20. Jg. 5. Qualität im Transfer With Peter-Georg Albrecht, in: Gerda Hagenauer, Doris Ittner, Roman Suter, Thomas Tribelhorn : ZFHE, Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, Evidenzorientierte Qualitätsentwicklung in der Hochschullehre: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen. Nr.1, 2018, Jg. 13, p. 299–316Iconicity as a Doorway to a New Space: Lesser Known East German Women Writers in the Seventies and Eighties, In: gender forum, Gender & Language, Nr. 20, 2008, p. 3–11Gestohlene Zeit. In: Czerney S., Eckert L., Martin S. Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft. Springer, Wiesbaden. Die Vereinbarkeit von Mutterbild und wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2020, p. 189–202.

Memberships

Science and education organisations

Social commitments

  • "Women in Leadership Positions" advisory board of the Premier of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Saxony-Anhalt State Integration Advisory Board
  • Saxony-Anhalt State Women's Council
  • Landesbotschafterin für Demokratie, Vielfalt und Weltoffenheit des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt