Carolina Romahn

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Carolina Romahn (born February 13, 1966 in Cuxhaven ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

Romahn studied German , Romance languages and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After completing her master's degree, she took up a position as a research assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature, where she worked in teaching and research from 1995 to 1999. In 1999 Carolina Romahn moved to the cultural department of the city of Frankfurt am Main, Office for Science and Art. Here she was responsible for the field of literature and science as a consultant for two years until she took over the management of the European office of the city of Frankfurt am Main in 2001. In 2004 she became head of the Department for International Affairs in the mayor's office. From 2007 to 2017 Romahn was head of the cultural office of the city of Frankfurt am Main and administratively responsible for the cultural landscape of Frankfurt with an annual municipal budget of more than € 162 million (2014). In this role she was, among other things, managing director of MuseumsBausteine ​​Frankfurt GmbH, board member of the Frankfurt Literature House Association , member of the supervisory board of Historischen Villa Metzler gGmbH and member of the university council of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences . She was particularly committed to the German Romantic Museum .

Since 2017, Carolina Romahn has been head of the department for cross-disciplinary cultural funding, for literature, cultural education, cultural and creative industries, international cultural relations, socioculture and tradition in the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art as a ministerial advisor within Department IV "Culture" . She has mandates in the supervisory bodies and boards of trustees of the German Academy for Language and Poetry of the Frankfurt RheinMain Cultural Fund and the Frankfurt Römerberg Talks . Since 2019 she has been responsible within the ministry for the administrative support of documenta gGmbH.

Carolina Romahn is married and has two grown children.

Publications

Fiction
  • Co-author in: Polyphonia: Decamore. 10 talk about love. Steinhäuser, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-924774-21-8 .
Contributor
  • Carolina Romahn: Eichendorf is skeptical. In: Carola Hilmes (Ed.): Skepticism or playing with doubt. Festschrift for Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow on his 65th birthday. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-88479-860-X , pp. 65-81.
  • Carolina Romahn: Farewell to the unambiguous. On the narrative process in Fontane's Stechlin. In: Carola Hilmes, Dietrich Mathy (Ed.): The poets do not lie. About knowledge, literature and readers. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-897-9 , pp. 163-183.
  • Epilogue to: Theodor Fontane : The Stechlin . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-10-020810-2 .
Co-editor
  • Carolina Romahn, Gerold Schipper-Hönicke (ed.): The paradox. Literature between logic and rhetoric. Festschrift for Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow on his 70th birthday. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1666-1 .
  • Ruthard Stäblein, Carolina Romahn, Hanne Kulessa (eds.): The city on the river. Frankfurt am Main, city of literature. A reader. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39886-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Service of Culture , Die Welt , April 26, 2008
  2. ↑ Tamara Marszalkowski: Panel discussion on subculture: From "Pseudokrupps" and "Hybriden" , Journal Frankfurt , January 26, 2016
  3. ↑ Annual report 2013/2014 , Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main
  4. ↑ Claudia Michels: Museum of Romanticism: A hoard of hidden treasures is being built next to the Goethe House, March 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Romahn, Carolina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menzel, Carolina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven