Bruno Quast

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Bruno Quast (* 1958 ) is a German specialist in German .

Bruno Quast studied German, Catholic theology and psychology at the University of Münster from 1979 to 1987 . In 1987 he passed the first state examination. Quast was a research assistant from 1988 to 1993 and a research assistant at the Institute for German Philology at LMU Munich from 1993 to 1999 . There he received his doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on Sebastian Franck , suggested and supervised by Franz Josef Worstbrock . He completed his habilitation in 1999 at the LMU Munich with a thesis on the openings of ritual text in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Quast was a substitute professor at the Institute for German Philology at the LMU Munich (2000) and at the German Seminar at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2000/2001). From 2000 to 2003 he was senior assistant at the Institute for German Philology at LMU Munich.

Quast taught from 2003 to 2009 as a professor for German literature with a focus on the Middle Ages at the University of Konstanz . In 2008 he was visiting professor at Charles University in Prague. In 2009 he turned down a call to the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Since 2009 he has been teaching as W3 professor for German Philology (literature of the Middle Ages) at the German Institute of the University of Münster. As a member of the “Religion and Politics” cluster of excellence, Quast was the project manager for The Religion of the Courtly Novel from 2010 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2017 was the project manager for Conversion in the Middle Ages. On the function of a cultural narrative to create order . As a member of the Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Decision-Making”, he has been the project leader for the poetics of decision-making in the narrative literature of the German Middle Ages since 2015 .

Quast has been the editor of Early Medieval Studies since 2017 . He has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 2017 . His main areas of work include German literature from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, medieval research on myths, historical anthropology , historical narratology , spiritual and secular games, and literature from the Reformation period .

Fonts

Monographs

  • From cult to art. Openings of the ritual text in the Middle Ages and early modern times (= Bibliotheca Germanica. Handbooks, texts and monographs from the field of Germanic philology. Vol. 48). Francke, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-7720-8019-7 .
  • Sebastian Franck's “War Book of Frides”. Studies on radical Reformation spiritualism (= Bibliotheca Germanica. Handbooks, texts and monographs from the field of Germanic philology. Vol. 31). Francke, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2022-4 .

Editorships

  • with Susanne Spreckelmeier: inculturation. Strategies of Biblical Epic Writing in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-053715-4 .

literature

  • Bruno Quast. In: Yearbook North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (2018), pp. 112–113.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Andreas Hammer in: Contributions to the history of German language and literature 129, 2007, pp. 527–531.
personal data
SURNAME Quast, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958