Bjorn Hayer

Björn Hayer (* 1987 in Mannheim) is a German German studies specialist, university lecturer and journalist.

Career

From 2007 to 2012, Hayer studied German, political science and philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 2012 he graduated with a Magister Artium . By 2015, his was followed by promotion to Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), he with summa cum laude graduated. From 2012 to 2013 he worked as a research assistant at the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine and then until 2016 as a lecturer at the Institute for German Language and Literature and its Didactics at the University of Education in Heidelberg . After receiving a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation from 2007 , he was appointed its liaison lecturer in 2016 . Since 2014 he has been working as a research assistant for literature and cultural studies at the Institute for German Studies on the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau

Since 2010 Hayer has also worked as a freelance journalist, u. a. for Spiegel Online , Die Zeit and Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Lars von Trier's Antichrist . An analysis. Diplomica, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8428-7294-3 .
“Now I've been expelled from myself.” (Anti) identities in Elfriede Jelinek's “Winterreise” and Wilhelm Müller's “Die Winterreise”. Tectum, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8288-5577-9 .
Media existences - existential media? The digital media in contemporary literature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5890-5 .
Melancholy and hope . Essays on society and culture. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3915-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Literature by and about Björn Hayer in the catalog of the German National Library
Profile on the website of the University of Koblenz-Landau

personal data
SURNAME	Hayer, Björn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist, university lecturer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim , Germany