Cornelia Zumbusch
Cornelia Zumbusch (* 1972 in Kabul ) is a German literary scholar and professor at the University of Hamburg .
Life
After studying modern German literature, philosophy and art history in Tübingen and Berlin , Zumbusch received his doctorate in 2003 from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on science in images. Symbol and dialectical image in Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas and Walter Benjamin's Passagen work. After a scientific assistant at the LMU Munich , she completed her habilitation there in 2009 on The Immunity of Classics. Purity, protection and insensitivity in Schiller and Goethe. After working in Konstanz and Vienna , she has been a professor at the University of Hamburg since 2013. She has also been co-director of the Warburg House since 2015 and spokesperson for the DFG-Kolleg research group “Imaginaries of Power” since 2019.
Fonts (selection)
- Science in pictures. Symbol and dialectical image in Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas and Walter Benjamin's Passagen work. Academy, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3050040561 .
- Editor: Pathos. To the history of a problematic category. Academy, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3050046075 .
- The immunity of the classic. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-29614-1 .
- Editor with Eva Eßlinger and Heide Volkening: The colors of prose. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2016, ISBN 978-3793098515 .
- Editor with Martin von Koppenfels: Handbuch Literatur & Emotionen. De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-030324-7 .
- Weimar Classic . An introduction. Metzler, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-476-04771-7
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Cornelia Zumbusch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cornelia Zumbusch on the website of the University of Hamburg
- Cornelia Zumbusch on the Warburg-Haus website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zumbusch, Cornelia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabul |