OUR TEAM

The team of Villa Luna Düsseldorf Südring consists of qualified, loving and professional pedagogical team members who have a lot of fun at work!

I am a kindergarten teacher, state-certified educator, integration and development educator, and until recently I was the coordinating head of the Humboldthain Primary School in Berlin. The Humboldthain Primary School also has a music-oriented profile. To find this again at Villa Luna makes me all the happier, because it is so much nicer to accompany, encourage and inspire children with music. I can also contribute a lot to the natural sciences and to the transition from nursery to school. It gives me great pleasure to work with children, to see their enthusiasm and to share the joy of their successes together with them.

Since the summer of 2016 I have been working at Villa Luna as an educator and since 2020, I’m part of the management team. My strengths are educational discussions, natural sciences and media education. Through a close relationship work I would like to give your children the security to develop freely, as well as to try new things and try out themselves. For me it is especially important that your children grow up as self-confident and strengthened individuals in order to be able to master the later tasks within society.

Lara Amatalla
Pedagogical staff

I am a trained social assistant and have been working at Villa Luna on the Südring in the red group since September 2019. What I appreciate about working with the children is that you learn new things and gain experience every day. There is nothing more beautiful than to see a child laugh while working and growing.

Pauline Hülsen
Pedagogical staff

In 2020 I successfully completed my studies in childhood education. Due to an au pair stay in England I came into closer contact with the English language and knew that I wanted to integrate it into my job. It gives me great pleasure to accompany and support children in their development and to learn something new from them every day. I am very happy to have found a place at Villa Luna where I can realize all this.

Julia Erdel
Pedagogical staff

I am currently training to become a state-approved educator and will complete my practice-integrated training here in the red group. I have already completed my training as a child care worker. I hope to gain more experience and a more concrete insight into pedagogy from the training. I have always enjoyed working with children, which is why I have chosen this profession. I am very much looking forward to the upcoming time full of new experiences and I am always available for you and your children for questions and suggestions.

Stefan Molnar
Trainee

Addi Sean Gräfe
English-speaking staff

Bojana Vilimonovic
Pedagogical staff

I come from Serbia and have lived in Düsseldorf for 5 years. In Serbia, I worked as a primary school teacher. I am very much looking forward to working with the children and support them with great pleasure in their personal development and help my colleagues in the conception of new educational contents.

Anna-Maria Avramidou
Pedagogical staff

I am a New York native who has been residing in Germany for 4 years. In America, I worked in the medical field of nursing. Specializing in pediatric emergency and rehabilitation. For two years, I traveled and worked in 3 different Asian countries teaching English to children and adults. I hope to utilize my knowledge and skills in guiding your children during their early development.

Sheena Scott
English-speaking staff

I am a New York native who has been residing in Germany for 4 years. In America, I worked in the medical field of nursing. Specializing in pediatric emergency and rehabilitation. For two years, I traveled and worked in 3 different Asian countries teaching English to children and adults. I hope to utilize my knowledge and skills in guiding your children during their early development.

I am a state-certified educator and have been working with your children at Villa Luna since 2015. Through my training as a gymnastics teacher I have set a further focus for my work with the child. My goal is to convey joy in movement, creativity, motor skills and a good social interaction. I meet the children at eye level and support them with heart and patience in their daily tasks. It is a great pleasure for me to get to know many little personalities and to be allowed to accompany them on their way.

After my training as a childcare worker, I worked at the Haus für Kinder Kieselstein in Kolbermoor. Since I grew up bilingual and love to travel to other countries, I have developed a great interest in other languages and cultures. My family comes from Russia. I grew up in Germany, so I speak Russian, German and through school also English. I am looking for new challenges in my life, so I decided to move from Rosenheim to Düsseldorf and to risk something new according to my life motto. I love working with children, teaching them something, helping them or just playing with them. The daily different routine gives me great joy.

I started in the Villa Luna team as a dual student of social pedagogy. In the meantime, I work as a pedagogical staff member in the purple group. At Villa Luna, the team and concept convinced me from the very beginning. As a child, I spent some time in England myself and learned the language very quickly and sustainably at an English elementary school.

J.F.
Pedagogical staff

After graduating as a state-certified educator, I worked for 8 years at a family center in family center in Düsseldorf with children from the age of 1 to 6. At Villa Luna, I was welcomed by an exceptionally open-hearted team. Remarkable is the high density of staff, which enables us to offer pedagogical programs in a wide variety of focal points and facets.

Susan Nordström
English-speaking staff

I work at Villa Luna Südring since september of 2019. I am from Finland and I hold two B.A.s, one in physical therapy and one in physical education. I have worked with children of different ages as a sports instructor/coach (children´s sport clubs’ instructor, swimming teacher/coach, dance instructor and yoga instructor) and as a physiotherapist, so supporting the development of children’s motor and emotional skills is my expertise. Working with children for me means to live the moment and have unlimited creativity. Each child is an individual and person to-be, whose development is the most important goal to support.

The training of the state-certified nursery school teacher had been completed since July 2001. I have been working in the yellow group at Villa Luna Düsseldorf-Südring since August 2017. The decision to become a kindergarten teacher was made at a very early age, because I love children, the work with them and their unconsciously joyful nature as well as the small steps on the children’s path to independence. It is very important to me to be a positive role model for the children and to build a bond with them. My greatest concern is to pay attention to the well-being of the children. My focus is on creative design, music, stories and spontaneous games.

Kiriana Adam-Jones
English-speaking staff

Kia Ora! That’s how we say hello in New Zealand, where I was born and raised. My name is Kiriana Adam-Jones, and I moved to Germany in 2006 after having studied Psychology and Business Administration in Wellington, New Zealand. I moved here to work as an au pair and since then have worked as an English teacher in many different language schools and educational institutions. I love working with children and helping to guide them to become the best version of themselves. This involves patience, compassion and a great deal of silliness! Outside of work I love working in the garden, going for bike rides and being creative. Travelling is also a great passion of mine as I thrive on meeting new people and discovering new cultures and ways of life. I look forward to joining the Villa Luna team and getting to know all the kids there!

Roya Hashemi
Pedagogical staff

Since January 2017, I have been working as an educator in the U3 area of Villa Luna Düsseldorf Südring. As a mother of two and a person with professional experience, I have had the experience that children are curious by nature and enjoy challenges! I accompany the children through individualized educational work in their development and discovery of the world as a trusted caregiver with head and heart. Creativity, music and movement are an important part of my daily work with the children.

Sarah Gernand-Maubach
Pedagogical staff

Since 2015 I have been part of Villa Luna on the Südring. I am always happy to accompany young people on their way to adulthood by meeting them with my open, patient and calm manner. It is also important to me to support each child individually on his or her path and to assist in the development of their abilities and needs. It gives me great pleasure to see how my work is appreciated by the children with a smile.

I spent the first months of my initial career as a child care worker in a large day care centre in Benrath. Brought to my attention by my circle of acquaintances, I looked into Villa Luna and was convinced by the philosophy. For me, being with children is more of a hobby and passion than just a job. Fittingly, I live by the motto: “Choose the job you love and you will never have to work another day in your life.

V. S. 
English-speaking staff

I successfully completed my training as a child care worker in 2018. Afterwards, I worked in the curative education sector for 3 years. I have been working in the kindergarten again since August 2021. Working with children gives me great pleasure. My motto in life is “You can’t change the wind, but you can set the sails differently”.

In 2020, I successfully completed my studies in the Netherlands to become a state-approved speech therapist. Therefore, I am also proficient in the Dutch language. I then worked as a speech therapist in Düsseldorf and qualified further in 2021 to be able to work as a pedagogical specialist in day-care centres. I am currently studying to become a social worker/social pedagogue. At Villa Luna, I look forward to getting to know and accompanying your children and all their wonderful little personalities. My motto in life: “No one knows what he can do until he tries.” (Puplilius Syrus)

Bettina Brand
Pedagogical staff, atelier

I am a qualified social pedagogue. I have been working at Villa Luna since January 2011 and since 2013 I have also been accompanying the children in the atelier after Arno Stern. It is great to accompany the children in their time in the day care centre, to support them individually and to experience something new with them every day!

Vera Sternkicker
Graduate chemist, Science for kindergarten children

My name is Vera Sternkicker and as a graduate chemist I take care of the concept and implementation of the science courses for children from 3 years of age at Villa Luna.

Marek Majer
Music teacher

I’m Marek Majer, guitar teacher, music school teacher. With my music studies I turned my passion into my profession and have been teaching for many years now, among others at Villa Luna. I take great pleasure in introducing children to music through dance, singing and rhythmics and lay the first foundations for further musical education.

Fatma Kural
Housekeeping

M.A.
Housekeeping

Manuel Busemann
Cook

K. E. H. (absent)
Pedagogical staff

At Villa Luna I have been working as a state-approved educator since 2018. Privately, but also professionally, I am very committed to animal-supported education and I find the positive effects of animals in educational processes very interesting. It is amazing how the accompanied handling of animals promotes the social and cognitive skills, as well as practical experiences of children. I think it’s great that I can bring animal-supported education to life here and that children can gain their first experiences at the group aquarium. It is important to me to help children to develop self-confidence and independence, as well as to experience values and norms. In my opinion, early promotion of social competence is particularly important in this respect. What I really appreciate about working with children is that every day is different. It is fascinating to see how the children develop and make progress every day. Every day is like a little adventure!

Nina Witte (absent)
Pedagogical staff

In the Philippines, I worked for 13 years as a college teacher at the English university. I took my first steps in Germany in 2012 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf to improve my language skills. I enjoy working with children, seeing how they develop and supporting them as much as I can. My motto is “In a world full of copies, be an original”.

In the summer of 1995, I graduated as a state-certified educator and have now been working full-time in this profession with love and passion for 25 years. Since the concept, as well as the openness and friendliness of the team, which I was already able to get to know through a job shadowing, appeals to me very much, I am very much looking forward to working in this house. Children only have one childhood. And it is especially important to me to make it unforgettable together with them. My motto in life: “You can only see well with your heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).