Dorothee Kimmich

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Dorothee Kimmich at the opening of the Tübingen Poetics Lecturer in 2013

Dorothee Kimmich (* 1961 in Stuttgart ) is a German literary scholar. She is professor at the German Seminar for Modern German Literature at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where she heads the Tübingen poetics lectureship .

Life

Kimmich studied German, history and philosophy at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and at the Sorbonne . Her doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg is entitled Epicurean Enlightenment. Philosophical and poetic concepts of self-care and was awarded the Hermann Paul Prize . She then completed her habilitation at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen with the thesis Reality as Construction or How Often Has the Story Ended? Studies on history and historicity with Heine, Büchner, Immermann, Keller, Stendhal and Flaubert .

Since 2002 she has been professor for modern German literature at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

Kimmich heads the Tübingen poetics lectureship , is a member of the jury of the Würth Literature Prize and is responsible for the binational master’s course “Etudes franco-allemandes” in cooperation with the Université de Provence in Aix-en-Provence .

more publishments

  • Living things in the modern age. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-86253-008-3 .
  • together with Tobias Wilke: Introduction to the literature of the turn of the century (=  introductions to German studies ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006.

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