Andreas Kraß

Andreas Kraß (born October 2, 1963 in Schermbeck ) is a German literary scholar with a focus on German medieval studies and queer theory and gender studies .

Life

In 2004, Kraß was appointed professor for older German literature at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There he was a member of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Research into Gender Relations . Since the winter semester 2012/13 he has been Professor of Older German Literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he is a member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies . Kraß has headed the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2012 .

In 2003, Kraß published the anthology Queer Thinking , which was the first to publish basic texts of American queer theory (by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , David Halperin , Teresa de Lauretis and Gayle Rubin ) in German translation.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs:

• Stabat mater dolorosa. Latin tradition and vernacular translations in the German Middle Ages. Fink, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3240-6 ( dissertation , University of Munich, 1994; online ).
• Written dresses. Court identity as a literary game. Francke, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8129-0 ( habilitation thesis , University of Munich, 2002/03).
• Mermaids. Stories of an impossible love. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-038195-8 .
• "My first lover". Magnus Hirschfeld and his relationship to beautiful literature. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1263-0 .
• A heart and a soul. History of male friendship. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397206-1 .

Editorships:

• (with Alexandra Tischel) Alliance and desire. A symposium on love. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-503-06146-0 .
• Think queer. Against the order of sexuality. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12248-7 .
• (with Thomas Frank) Ink and blood. Politics, eroticism and poetics of martyrdom. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-18019-6 .
• Queer Studies in Germany. Interdisciplinary contributions to critical heteronormativity research. Trafo, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89626-725-2 .
• (with Judith Klinger) Animals: Man's Companion in Medieval Literature. Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-341-250582-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Kraß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Andreas Kraß in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Andreas Kraß on the website of the Humboldt University in Berlin
• Andreas Kraß on the website of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
• Short biography and reviews of works by Andreas Kraß at perlentaucher.de
• Ansgar Skoda: “Breaking up the heteronormativity. Make something else conceivable. ” Detailed interview on the subject of Queer Studies / Queer Theory on kritische-ausgabe.de , 10 July 2006
• Website of the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality at the Humboldt University in Berlin