Dagmar Burkhart

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Dagmar Burkhart (born February 14, 1939 in Erding ) is a German Slavist, Balkanologist and cultural anthropologist.

biography

Dagmar Burkhart studied Slavic, American , Balkan and European ethnology (cultural anthropology). In 1967 she did her doctorate at the University of Munich with an investigation into the stratigraphy and chronology of the South Slavic folk epic (grade: summa cum laude). From 1968 to 1977 she worked in Munich as a publishing editor, translator and lecturer in adult education, and from 1978 to 1985 as a research assistant and university assistant at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin (Balkanology Department ). In 1983 and 1985 she completed her habilitation at the Free University of Berlin and received the Venia legendi for Balkanology and Slavic literature. From 1985 to 1995 she was Professor of Slavic Studies in Hamburg (areas: South Slavic literatures, Russian literature, Polish literature, Slavic folk poetry) , from 1995 to 2002 she held the Chair of Slavic Studies (literary studies) in Mannheim.

Research priorities

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the stratigraphy and chronology of the southern Slavic folk epic. Munich 1968.
  • Black cubes - red dominoes. A structural description of Andrej Belyj's novel Peterburg. Bern / Frankfurt a. M. 1984.
  • Cultural area of ​​the Balkans. Studies in Folklore and Literature of Southeast Europe . Berlin 1989.
  • Discourse of the threshold. Aspects of contemporary Croatian literature. Edited together with Vladimir Biti. Frankfurt a. M. 1996.
  • Natura naturata. Objective world and cultures in Polish literature from the 19th century to the present. Ed. Together with Waldemar Klemm. Amsterdam, Atlanta 1997.
  • Prazdnik. Of festivals and celebrations in Slavic literatures. Edited together with Andreas Leitner. Frankfurt a. M. 1999.
  • Poetics of Metadiscursivity. On the postmodern prose, film and drama work by Vladimir Sorokin. Ed., Munich 1999.
  • Honor. The symbolic capital. Munich 2002.
  • A story of honor. Darmstadt 2006.
  • Skin memory. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2011.

Honors

  • In 1968 she received the Munich Southeast European Society Prize for her dissertation.
  • In 2004, on her 65th birthday, she was presented with a commemorative publication entitled Mundus narratus (Eds. Renate Hansen-Kokoruš and Angela Richter).
  • In 2016 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

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personal data
SURNAME Burkhart, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, Balkanologist and cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Erding