Erika Greber

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Erika Greber (born September 15, 1952 in Freudenstadt ; † July 31, 2011 ) was a German literary scholar . Most recently, Greber held the chair for comparative literature at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and was vice dean of the philosophy faculty there.

Career

After studying Russian and English with accompanying studies in education and philosophy in Tübingen and Göttingen, Greber received his doctorate in 1987 at the University of Konstanz under Renate Lachmann with a thesis on Boris Pasternak's early prose . She was a scholarship holder of the graduate school “Theory of Literature and Communication” and was the first to receive the teaching award of the State of Baden-Württemberg for the University of Konstanz in 1993 . In 1994 he completed his habilitation in the subjects of comparative and Slavic studies . From 1995 to 2007 Greber was Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 2007 to 2011 at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Chair for Comparative Literature in connection with Modern German Literature and Eastern European Focus). In 1997/98 she was visiting professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California (Irvine) for one year . From 1998 to 2001 she was the spokesperson for the Munich Graduate School “Gender Difference and Literature”. From 2006 to 2007 she was the spokesperson for the doctoral program “Literary Studies” ( funded by the DAAD and DFG in the IPP program ). Since 2009 she was a member of the Academia Europaea .

Her research interests included self-reflection in literature and the visual arts, intertextuality and intermediality (verbal and visual media), interculturality, literary forms of play, gender studies and feminist literary theory. Greber was co-editor of several specialist journals and scientific yearbooks or a member of their advisory boards.

Publications (selection)

  • Intertextuality and interpretability of the text. On Boris Pasternak's early prose. Theory and history of literature and the fine arts: Series C, Aesthetics, Art and Literature in the History of the Modern Age, Vol. 8. Fink, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7705-2588-4 (also: Konstanz, University, dissertation, 1987).
  • Textile texts. Poetological metaphor and literary theory. Studies on the tradition of word weaving and combinatorics. Pictura et Poesis, Vol. 9. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-14896-2 (also: Konstanz, Universität, habilitation paper, 1994).
  • ScripturePicture. Documentation for the exhibition from June 30th to July 24th 2000 in the university library and the poetry library at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Munich. Institute for General and Comparative Literature Studies, University of Munich, Munich 2000.
  • as editor with Susi K. Frank, Schamma Schahadat and Igor Smirnov : Gedächtnis und Phantasma. Festschrift for Renate Lachmann (= Die Welt der Slaven. Anthologies 13). Sagner, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87690-820-5 .
  • as editor with Konrad Ehlich and Jan-Dirk Müller : Materiality and mediality of writing (= writing and image in motion. Vol. 1). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-345-2 .
  • as editor with Bettine Menke : Manners - Manners - Mannerisms. Ceremony for Renate Lachmann (= literature and anthropology. Vol. 18). Narr, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-8233-5717-4 .
  • as editor with Roger Lüdeke: Intermedium Literature. Contributions to a media theory of literary studies (= Munich comparative studies. Vol. 5). Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-765-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  2. ^ Membership directory: Erika Greber. Academia Europaea, accessed June 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Personal website ( memento from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
personal data
SURNAME Greber, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2011