Schwarz-Friesel established the approach of critical
cognitive linguistics in Germany. From 2000 to 2010 she taught as a university professor for text linguistics and pragmatics at the Institute for German Linguistics at the
University of Jena. Since 2010 she has held a
professorship at
Technische Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on the interaction of
language,
cognition and
emotion,
cognitive semantics and
metaphors, and verbal manifestations of current
antisemitism. She advises institutions on current forms of
antisemitism, e.g. the platform StopAntisemitismus.de which was established in 2019 by the
ZEIT-Stiftung. Also, she is the chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the
Leo Trepp Foundation. When the
Simon-Wiesenthal-Prize of the
Austrian Parliament was established in 2020 by the President of the National Council,
Wolfgang Sobotka, she became a member of the expert jury. The Simon-Wiesenthal-Prize is awarded by the
National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism for outstanding civic engagement to combat antisemitism and promote Holocaust education. ==Personal life==