Barbara Beßlich

Barbara Beßlich (* 1970 in Bonn ) is a German literary scholar .

In 1989, Barbara Beßlich received her Abitur. From 1989 to 1994 he studied German, history and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Freiburg .

During her studies and doctorate (1993–1999) she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 1994/95 she passed her first state examination in history and German. From 1996 to 1998 she was a research assistant for an edition project of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1999 she received her doctorate at the German Seminar II at the University of Freiburg . In the summer semester of the same year she was a research assistant there. From 1999 to 2005 she worked as a research assistant at Achim Aurnhammer's chair at the same location. In 2005, she received her habilitation and was appointed temporary academic advisor. In the 07/08 winter semester she was a substitute professor for modern German literary history at the University of Freiburg. This was followed in 2008 by a substitute professor at Heidelberg University . Since the winter semester of this year, she has been teaching there as the successor to Dieter Borchmeyer as professor of modern German literature . From 2011 to 2012 she was a fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies at Heidelberg University). In 2015 she was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 2007 she was awarded the Walter Witzenmann Prize by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

Monographs

• Fascination with decay. Thomas Mann and Oswald Spengler. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003773-3 .
• Paths to the 'culture war'. Criticism of civilization in Germany 1890–1914. Revised dissertation. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-14930-0 .
• The German Napoleon myth. Literature and memory 1800 to 1945. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-20025-2 .

Editorships

• with Katharina Grätz and Olaf Hildebrand: Turn of remembrance? Historical constructions in German literature after 1989. (= Philological studies and sources. 198). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-503-07980-7 .
• with Achim Aurnhammer and Rudolf Denk : Arthur Schnitzler and the film. (= Classical Modernism. Volume 15; files from the Arthur Schnitzler Archive of the University of Freiburg. Volume 1). Ergon, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89913-748-4 .

literature

• Inaugural address by Ms. Barbara Beßlich at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on April 23, 2016. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for the year 2016. Heidelberg 2017, pp. 286–290 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Beßlich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Barbara Beßlich at the University of Heidelberg