Elisabeth Paefgen

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Elisabeth Katharina Paefgen (born September 22, 1954 in Lippstadt ) is a German literary scholar and literary didactician .

Career

From 1973 to 1979 she studied German and political science at the Free University of Berlin . In 1979 she passed the first state examination, in 1983 the second. Paefgen taught at Berlin schools from 1980 to 1985, after which she was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin until 1990 . In 1989 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the anthology of poems for secondary schools compiled by Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer . Her habilitation, presented in 1994, was published in book form in 1996 under the title "Writing and Reading". From 1994 to 1995 Paefgen was a professor at the University of Hanover , after which she received a professorship for modern German literature and its didactics. Paefgen has held the professorship for didactics of German language and literature at the Free University of Berlin since 2003. The main focus of Elisabeth K. Paefgen's work lies in the areas of canon discussion , literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and - above all - film and literature (in German lessons).

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The 'Echtermeyer' (1836–1981) - an anthology of poems for use in secondary schools. Presentation and evaluation of its history in a literary and cultural-historical context. Frankfurt a. M. ua: Lang 1990. [Contributions to the history of German teaching. Vol. 2]
  • Write and read. Aesthetic work and literary learning. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1996.
  • Introduction to literary didactics. 2., act. and extended edition Stuttgart: Metzler 2006.
  • Elective relatives. Cinematic and literary narratives in dialogue. Berlin: Bertz + Fischer 2009.

Editing

  • Echtermeyer / von Wiese : German poems. Redesign and editing of the 20th century selection. Düsseldorf: Cornelsen 1990 (2nd ed. 1991; 3rd ed. 1993; 4th ed. 1999; 5th ed. 2002).
  • Together with Gerhart Wolff: Pragmatics in Language and Literature: Festschrift on the retirement of Detlef C. Kochan. Tübingen: Fool 1993.
  • Together with Peter Geist: Echtermeyer: German Poems - From the Beginnings to the Present. Berlin: Cornelsen 2005 (19th edition, 1st print).

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personal data
SURNAME Paefgen, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paefgen, Elisabeth Katharina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and didacticist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt