Barbara Hahn (Germanist)

Barbara Hahn (* 1952 in Eßlingen am Neckar ) is a German specialist in German.

Life

Hahn studied German , philosophy and geography at the Technical University of Berlin , at the Free University of Berlin and at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1989 she received her doctorate at the Free University and received the Joachim Tiburtius Prize for her dissertation in 1990 . In 1993 she completed her habilitation at the University of Hamburg .

After various visiting professorships, she accepted an appointment at Princeton University in 1996 . Since 2004 she has been teaching at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the US state of Tennessee .

"Answer me". Rahel Levin Varnhagen's correspondence. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
Under a false name. The difficult authorship of women. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
as editor: Women in cultural studies: From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Hannah Arendt . Beck Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37433-6 .
The Jewess Pallas Athene . Also a theory of modernity. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002. (English translation by James McFarland under the title The Jewess Pallas Athena. This Too a Theory of Modernity. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2005.)
Hannah Arendt: passions, people and books. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2005.
with Marie Luise Knott , “We expect truth from poets.” Hannah Arendt's literatures. Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2007.
as editor: Rahel. A keepsake book for your friends. 6 volumes. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2011.
as editor: Encounters with Rahel Levin Varnhagen. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1661-4 .
Endless night: dreams in the century of violence. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42565-7 .