Astrid Barber-Weiner has been a lecturer in speech training for acting, singing and teaching students at hmt Rostock since 1998.

She studied German Language and Literature at the University of Greifswald and Speech Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Witenberg, graduating with a Diplom. She is a qualified speech and language therapist.

After completing her studies, she worked as a speech trainer at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam for 15 years. At the same time, she worked as a freelance speech trainer, working for companies such as the radio station “Antenne Brandenburg”, the television broadcaster ORB and the UFA.

A. Barber-Weiner has worked full-time as a freelancer since 1998 for various customers, e.g. the Senftenberg Theatre, as a lecturer at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin (speech training for students of Singing) as lecturer at the University of Greifswald (poetry recital, body-voice coaching, rhetoric) and as a lecturer at the University of Potsdam (body-voice coaching and rhetoric for lawyers). She also teaches rhetoric in Rostock and Potsdam, at various law firms.