Sabine Kirchmeier

Sabine Berta Luise Kirchmeier (born 3October 1955) is a German-Danish linguist and former politician. As a researcher, she has worked on computational linguistics and was the director of the Danish Language Council from 2006 to 2019. As a politician, she represented the Social Democrats in Farum from 2000 to 2006, while the cases against Peter Brixtofte took place.

She previously went by the last name Kirchmeier-Andersen.

Early life and education Sabine Kirchmeier was born on 3 October 1955 in Hanover to German parents. When she was 9 years old, the family moved to Denmark when her father became the director of Dr. Oetker's Scandinavian division. In Denmark, she went to Sankt Petri Schule in Copenhagen

After this, she went back to Denmark and enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1977. During her studies, she worked at a factory and as a teacher at the Sankt Petri Schule. She received Danish citizenship in 1980 and finished her cand.mag. degree in Danish and German in 1987. Her master's thesis was about the perception of death in Danish funeral sermons in the 1600s. From 1995 to 1998, she was assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School. She also has an MBA in management. Afterwards, Kirchmeier was hired as associate professor in computational linguistics at Copenhagen Business School in 1998 and until 2006. In 2015, this position was extended. The same year, a Festschrift was published on her 60th birthday.

Since then, Kirchmeier has worked as an independent consultant in language technology. whose committee she was a member of from 2006 and vice president of from 2019 to 2021. She also reported Brixtofte to the police for breaking the law on municipalities in February 2002,

In the 2005 Danish local elections, she received the second-most votes in Farum Municipality, which was scheduled to merge with Værløse Municipality to form Furesø Municipality in 2007, as a result of . She became a member of the merger committee for Furesø. She might have been able to become mayor in Farum if it had not been merged with Værløse. She resigned from the merger committee in March 2006 to concentrate on her new job as the director of the Danish Language Council, but remained a member of Farum Municipality until the end of 2006 when the merger came into effect. The role as the local lead candidate for the Social Democrats was taken over by Ole Bondo Christensen, who later became mayor.

Memberships Sabine Kirchmeier standing furthest to the right with other guests at a live episode of the radio programme in 2015. Kirchmeier was included in in 2008. She received Copenhagen Business School's prize for good teaching in 1999.

From 2007 to 2008, she was a member of the Danish government's language committee, and from 2009 to 2013 she led the Nordic Language Coordination under the Nordic Council of Ministers. Since 2011, she has been a member of the committee for (Danish Speeches).