Anja Johannsen

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Anja K. Johannsen (* 1974 ) is a Germanist as well as managing director and program director of the Literary Center Göttingen .

Life

Johannsen studied German and philosophy in Berlin , Dublin , Providence (USA) and Freiburg im Breisgau . She received her doctorate in 2007 with a thesis on WG Sebald , Anne Duden and Herta Müller . She translated and proofread for domestic and foreign publishers and published on contemporary German and English literature. She taught at the universities in Berlin, Hamburg and Paderborn and worked as a freelancer from 2007 to the beginning of 2010 for the Literaturhaus Zürich . Since May 2010 she has been the managing director and program director of the Literary Center.

Publications (selection)

  • "Heinz Ludwig Arnold's 'Conversations with Writers': Handke, Grass, Hochhuth", in: T. Hoffmann / G. Kaiser (ed.), Really staged. Interviews in literature and literature, Paderborn 2014;
  • »To pimp our minds objectively. A plea for a praxeological contemporary literature science «, in: TEXT + KRITIK special issue, The future of literature, Munich 2013;
  • “Straw to gold or gold to straw? On the ambivalence of public readings by authors «, in: Ph. Theisohn / C. Weder (ed.), Literature business. On the poetics of a production community, Paderborn 2013;
  • Ed. Zs. with M. Bierwirth and M. Zeman, Doing Contemporary Literature. Practices, evaluations and automatisms in research on contemporary literature, Paderborn 2012;
  • Chests, crypts, labyrinths. Spatial configurations in contemporary literature: WG Sebald, Anne Duden, Herta Müller, Bielefeld 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literary Center Göttingen. literaturhaus.net, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Johannsen, Anja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannsen, Anja K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Germanist as well as managing director and program manager of the Literary Center Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1974