Annette Gerok-Reiter

Annette Gerok-Reiter (* 1961 ) is a German Germanist and professor of German literature of the Middle Ages in a European context at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Life

Gerok-Reiter studied German and philosophy in Tübingen and Basel. In 1992 she received her doctorate with a thesis on Rilke's sonnets at Orpheus in Tübingen. Afterwards she was a postgraduate scholarship holder of the graduate college "Ars and Scientia in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Times" (Tübingen) as well as a research assistant in Tübingen and Mainz, where in 2004 she conducted a study on Middle High German epic (individuality. Studies on a controversial phenomenon of Middle High German epic, Tübingen, Basel 2006) completed his habilitation. In 2008 she accepted a professorship for Older German Literature and Language at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2010 she has been Professor of German Literature of the Middle Ages in a European Context (W 3) at the University of Tübingen. Gerok-Reiter turned down a call to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 2015.

Her research focuses on aesthetics, historical poetology and semantics, anthropology and emotion research as well as the aesthetic staging of knowledge systems. Minnesang, the courtly novel and the early modern prose novel form further core topics of her research.

Gerok-Reiter is the spokesperson for the DFG Graduate School 1662 "Religious Knowledge in Premodern Europe (800–1800)" and the doctoral group "The Other Aesthetics". She has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2013.

Publications

• Wink and change. Composition and poetics in Rilke's ´Sonette an Orpheus´, Tübingen 1996 (Studies on German Literature 140).
• Individuality. Studies on a controversial phenomenon of Middle High German epic, Tübingen, Basel 2006 (Bibliotheca Germanica 51).
• Matthias Däumer, Annette Gerok-Reiter, Friedemann Kreuder (eds.), Unorte. Varieties of a lost location. Perspectives on cultural studies (Mainz Historical Cultural Studies 3), Bielefeld 2010.
• Annette Gerok-Reiter, Christine Walde (eds.), Dream and Vision in the Premodern. Traditions, discussions, perspectives, Berlin 2011.
• The 'art of vuoge ': style as a relational category. Reflections on Minnesang, in: Elizabeth Andersen, Ricarda Bauscke-Hartung, Nicola McLelland, Silvia Reuvekamp (eds.), Literarischer Stil. Medieval poetry between convention and innovation. Writings of the XXII. Anglo-German Colloquium Düsseldorf, Berlin a. a. 2015, pp. 97–118.
• [with Franziska Hammer] Spatial Turn / Raumforschung, in: Christiane Ackermann, Michael Egerding (eds.), Literary and cultural theories in German mediaeval studies. A manual, Berlin a. a. 2015, pp. 481-516.
• On the sense and nonsense of dealing with the early minstrelsong, in: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Yearbook 2015, ed. from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg 2016, pp. 65–67.
• Graduated teaching. Theme and variation in Mechthild von Magdeburg, in: Nicola McLelland, Henrike Lähnemann, Nine Miedema (eds.): Teaching, Learning and Education in Medieval German Literature (XXIII Anglo-German Colloquium, September 4-8, 2013 ), Tübingen 2017, pp. 155–169.
• Aesthetics of Polyphony. The early German-speaking minnesang as a venue for cultural diversity, in: Ingrid Kasten, Laura Auteri (eds.), Transculturality and Translation. Medieval literature and literature today. Festschrift John Greenfield, Berlin / Boston 2017, pp. 29–47.