Christian Kiening

Christian Kiening (* 1962 ) is a German literary , cultural and media scholar . He teaches as full professor of German literature at the University of Zurich .

Life

Kiening studied German philology , history and philosophy in Munich. In 1989 he was there with a dissertation on Wolfram von Eschenbach Willehalm at Hans Fromm doctorate . In 1992/93 he was a fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. In 1995/96 a post-doctoral thesis on Johannes von Tepl Ackermann followed . Since 2000 he has been full professor for German Medieval Studies at the University of Zurich.

Kiening researches and teaches about Middle High German literature. His research interests are the representation of death in the late Middle Ages, storytelling in the Middle Ages, specifically medieval patterns of meaning (such as that of the family) as well as the mediality and materiality of medieval literature.

He is co-editor of the German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history , the Old German Text Library, the series of historical semantics, media change - media change - media knowledge, philology of culture and medieval perspectives.

Publications (selection)

• Christian Kiening: Last moves: a story . Frankfurt am Main, weissbooks.w 2018, ISBN 978-3-86337-126-5 .
• Christian Kiening: Abundance and Deficiency: Mediality in the Middle Ages . Zurich, Chronos 2016, ISBN 978-3-0340-1354-3 .
• Christian Kiening: Literary Creation in the Middle Ages . Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1786-4 .
• Christian Kiening: The Middle Ages of Modernism: Rilke - Pound - Borchard . Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1505-1 .
• Christian Kiening: Between Body and Writing: Texts Before the Age of Literature . Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Digital 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-30075-4 .
• Christian Kiening & Ulrich Johannes Beil: Primal scenes of the medial: From Moses to Caligari . Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1127-5 .
• Christian Kiening: Unholy Families: Patterns of Medieval Storytelling Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4229-4 .
• Christian Kiening: The wild subject: little poetics of the New World . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-36709-4 .
• Christian Kiening: Between Body and Writing: Texts Before the Age of Literature . Frankfurt am Main, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15951-2 .
• Christian Kiening: The Other Self: Figures of Death on the Threshold of Modern Times . Munich, Fink 2003, ISBN 978-3-7705-3819-5 .

Web links

• Christian Kiening at the University of Zurich
• Homepage of the NCCR Mediality