Alfrun Kliems

Alfrun Kliems (born May 23, 1969 in Wriezen , Brandenburg ) is a German literary scholar, Slavist and university lecturer. Her main research interests are culture and language changes , exile literature and the underground in East Central Europe .

Life

From 1988 to 1993 Kliems studied Russian and Bohemian Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Charles University in Prague. From 1998 to 2001 she worked in Leipzig as a research assistant at the Humanities Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) in the project “Basic Terms and Authors in East Central European Exile Literature 1945–1989”. In 2000 doctorate it with the dissertation in the silent country. On the German-language exile work of Libuše Moníková , Jiří Gruša and Ota Filip as a doctorate (Dr phil.) The doctoral thesis was published as a monograph by the Peter Lang Publishing Group in 2003 .

From 2001 to 2003 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Chair for West Slavonic Literature) and from 2004 to 2011 she was the subject coordinator for literary studies of East Central Europe at the Leipzig GWZO. From 1997–2004 she taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 2005–2011 at the University of Leipzig . Since the winter semester 2012/13 she has been a professor for West Slavic literatures and cultures at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Kliems wrote several relevant monographs and published, among other things, the three-volume standard work Lyrik des 20. Century in Ost-Mittel-Europa .

Publications

• In the silent land. On the exile work of Libuše Moníková, Jiří Gruša and Ota Filip . (also dissertation at Humboldt University Berlin 2000) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-39983-5 .
• as co-author: Basic concepts and authors of East Central European exile literature 1945–1989. A contribution to systematisation and typology . 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08389-8 .
• with Marina Dmitrieva: The Post Socialist City. Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery . Jovis-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-018-0 . (English)
• The underground, the Wende and the city. Poetics of the Urban in East Central Europe (= Edition Kulturwissenschaft , Vol. 32). Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2574-5 .

As editor

• Slovak culture and literature in terms of self and others. Ludwig Richter on his 70th birthday (= research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe , vol. 22). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08676-9 .
• with Martina Winkler : Creating meaning through narration in East-Central Europe. History - Literature - Film (= History and History Culture in the 20th Century , Vol. 7). Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-931982-40-9 .
• 20th Century Poetry in Central and Eastern Europe . (three-part work)
  • Volume 1: Late modernism (= literary studies , Vol. 2). Frank & Timme , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86596-020-7 .
  • Volume 2: Socialist Realism (= Literary Studies , Vol. 6). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86596-021-4 .
  • Volume 3: Intermediality (= literary studies , volume 11). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86596-022-1
• with Marina Dmitreva, Arnold Bartetzky : Imaginations des Urbanen. Conception, reflection and fiction of the city in Central and Eastern Europe . Lukas Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-022-1 .
• Carry over - overmold - crossfade. Theory Transfer in the 20th Century . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20438-9 .
• Under the city. Subversive Aesthetics in East Central Europe . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22139-3 .
• Playgrounds of denial. Countercultures in Eastern Europe after 1956 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22268-0 .
• with Christine Gölz (ed.), Birgit Krehl (ed.): "The unbearable lightness of the haiku ". The artist Karel Trinkewitz . Verlag Janos Stekovics , Dößel 2016, ISBN 978-3-89923-368-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfrun Kliems in the catalog of the German National Library
• Writings by Alfrun Kliems  in the German Digital Library
• Vita of Prof. Dr. Alfrun Kliems