Doerte Bischoff

Doerte Bischoff (born April 12, 1966 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

From 1986 to 1989 she studied German, modern history, journalism and philosophy at the Universities of Münster and Tübingen . From 1988 to 1991 she received a study grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In 1989/1990 she studied abroad at Washington University . After receiving her Master of Arts in St. Louis in 1990 , she conducted research in Jerusalem ( DAAD ) in 1993/1994 , associated with the Rosenzweig Center. In 1994 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . From 1994 to 1997 she was a doctoral candidate at the DFG graduate college “Theory of Literature and Communication” in Konstanz .

From 1997 to 1998 she was a research assistant in the research project "Female Speech - The Rhetoric of Femininity", University of Bochum . From 1998 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the German Institute of the University of Münster [with interruptions]. After completing her doctorate in Tübingen in 1999, she received the Women's Advancement Award from the WWU Münster in 2003 . From 2003 to 2006 she had a Lise Meitner habilitation grant. In 2004 she teaches as Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Cincinnati . After her habilitation in 2009 at the WWU Münster, she taught in 2010 as a professor for modern German literature and cultural studies (W2) at the University of Siegen .

From 2008 to 2010 she represented professorships at the Universities of Hamburg and Münster. Since 2011 she has been Professor of Modern German Literature with a focus on the 20th century and the present (W3), head of the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature at the University of Hamburg .

Her focus areas are literature and exile, German-Jewish literature / Holocaust memory, transnationality and transculturality in literature, cultural studies / literature and knowledge (fetish discourses, things in literature, materiality of signs, fashion, etc.), literary and cultural theory, gender Studies and Rhetoric.

Fonts (selection)

• Suspended creation. Figures of sovereignty and ethics of difference in Else Lasker-Schüler's prose . Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-15095-5 .
• Poetic fetishism. The cult of things in the 19th century . Munich 2013, ISBN 3-7705-5042-0 .
• as editor with Miriam N. Reinhard, Claudia Röser and Sebastian Schirrmeister: Exil Lektüren. Studies of literature and theory . Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943414-54-7 .
• as editor: Exile - Literature - Judaism . Munich 2016, ISBN 3-86916-327-5 .

Web links

• Doerte Bischoff on the website of the University of Hamburg