Beate waiter

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Beate Kellner (born September 15, 1963 in Mühldorf am Inn ) is a German specialist in German. She holds the chair for German Medieval Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Career

Kellner studied German , Latin philology and Catholic theology in Munich and Regensburg from 1983 to 1989 . In 1992 she received her doctorate with a thesis on myths in Jacob Grimm's German Mythology at LMU Munich . In 2001, Kellner completed his habilitation at the TU Dresden on the subject of origin and continuity. Studies on genealogical knowledge in the Middle Ages . In the same year she was offered a professorship for older German literature and language at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 2004 Kellner accepted a position at TU Dresden. In 2006 she became a professor at the University of Zurich . In 2006, she turned down an offer for a full professorship at the University of Vienna . Since 2010 she has been a professor at the LMU Munich (successor Jan-Dirk Müller ). From 2010 to 2013 Kellner was Vice President for Research there. Since 2013 she has been spokeswoman for the 1986 DFG research group, "Nature in Political Drafts", together with the English scholar Andreas Höfele . In 2016 she was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley . Since October 2017 she has been the dean of the Faculty for Linguistics and Cultural Studies at LMU.

Kellner is married to Markus Kellner and has two children.

Act

Kellner was the head of several projects. So she led by the German Research Foundation funded projects "East and West. Pagans and Christians in German Medieval Literature "(in: SPP 1173: Integration and Disintegration of Cultures in the European Middle Ages) and" Genealogy in the Late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age "(in: SFB 537: Institutionality and Historicity at TU Dresden). Together with Peter Strohschneider , she led projects on the Wartburg War supported by the German Research Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . Kellner was a member of the European Graduate College (EGK 625: Institutional orders, scripture and symbols), TU Dresden / École pratique des hautes études , Paris from 2004 to 2007 . From 2010 to 2012 she was a member of the international doctoral college “Textuality in the Pre-Modern Age” (LMU). Since 2015 she has been co-editor of the comparative journal POETICA . In 2017 she was awarded the Princess Therese von Bayern Prize for the Promotion of Women in Science at the LMU. In 2018 she was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Kellner mainly deals with the minstrelsong , the poetry and the courtly epic as well as the European literature of the 16th century ( Rabelais and Fischart ). However, her interests also apply to literary theory and the history of knowledge of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. In addition, the relationship between Latin and vernacular poetry as well as medieval natural philosophy and the literary representation of nature form focal points of her research.

Publications

  • Grimm's Myths. Studies on the concept of myth and its application in Jacob Grimm's ' German Mythology' , Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1994 (Mikrokosmos 41).
  • Origin and continuity. Studies on genealogical knowledge in the Middle Ages , Munich 2004.
  • Spiel der Liebe im Minnesang , Munich 2018, approx. 600 pages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Kellner: "The Power of Imagination in Middle High German Minnesang" - Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies , accessed on February 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Beate Kellner's curriculum vitae (PDF; 158.73 kB), accessed on February 22, 2018
  3. ↑ Princess Therese von Bayern Foundation - University Women's Commissioner - LMU Munich , accessed on February 22, 2018
  4. ↑ From medieval studies to experimental physics: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 11 new members. Press release from March 22, 2018 from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Retrieved March 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Waiter, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühldorf am Inn