Friederike Hassauer

Friederike Hassauer (born November 29, 1951 in Würzburg ) is a German literary scholar and professor of Romance philology at the University of Vienna with a focus on French and Spanish literary and media studies . She is considered a pioneer in gender studies in Romance studies at the University of Vienna.

life and work

From 1971 to 1975 Friederike Hassauer studied Romance languages , German , comparative literature , philosophy , sociology and art history in Würzburg , Tübingen and St. Louis ; she received her Masters from Washington University in the USA. From 1978 to 1980 she was a PhD scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . After studying in Paris , Madrid , Salamanca , Siena and Perugia , she completed her doctorate in 1980 at the Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on the fable of the 18th century in the French Enlightenment, which was awarded the dissertation prize of the University of Bochum. In 1988 he completed his habilitation in Siegen on the media history of the medieval Way of St. James . In 1991 she was appointed to the chair for Romance Philology at the University of Vienna.

In research, teaching and publications, Friederike Hassauer deals with media theory and history; Literary theory and history. Her cultural studies in the field of gender research focused on France and Spain in the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century and in particular on the Querelle des femmes in Romania from the Middle Ages to modern times. In 2008 she published an anthology on the 'Querelle des femmes' under the title Hot Controversy and Cold Order , in which 21 authors research women's literature in Spain and Hispano-America. Frank-Rutger Hausmann rated Friederike Hassauer's introduction to the volume as “methodically and linguistically” brilliant.

Friederike Hassauer lives in Vienna. Together with her partner, the writer Peter Roos , she has realized book and documentary film projects. She also wrote essays for Spiegel , Zeit , Standard and FAZ .

Awards

• 1980 Dissertation Prize from the University of Bochum
• 1998 Medal of Merit from the University of Konstanz

Memberships and functions

• 1997/98 member of the structural reform commission of the University of Konstanz
• 1999 to 2009 curator of the Volkswagen Foundation
• Since 2000 member of the Standing Commission for Research of the Austrian Rectors' Conference
• 2002/03 member of the structural reform commission of Schleswig-Holstein
• 2002 and 2008 jury member of the Weser-Ems Science Award, University of Oldenburg
• Since 2007 corresponding member (inland) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna
• 2007/08 University Council of the University of Konstanz

Fonts (selection)

• What is literature? Introduction to Romance Studies (Hispanic Studies / Gallo Romance Studies) and General Literary Studies . (Vienna 1998)
• Homo.Academica - Gender Contracts, Institution and the Distribution of Knowledge . (1994)
• Santiago: Scripture - Body - Space - Journey. A media historical reconstruction . (1993, also habilitation thesis University of Siegen 1988)
• Loss of text. A polemic . (1992)
• The Philosophy of Mythical Animals - From Theoretical to Practical Reason. Investigations into functional and structural change in the fable of the French Enlightenment . (1986, also dissertation University Bochum 1980)
• Félicien Rops : The female body - the male gaze (with Peter Roos, 1984)

Editing

• Hot quarrel and cold order. Epochs of the 'Querelle des Femmes' between the Middle Ages and the present . (2008)
• Gender dispute at the beginning of European modernity . (With G. Engel / C. Opitz / B. Rang / H. Wunder, 2004)
• Controversial issue of gender - historical stations of the "Querelle des Femmes" in Romania . (With W. Aichinger / M. Bidwell – Steiner / J. Bösch / E. Cescutti / K. Wozonig, 2001)
• The women with wings, the men with lead? Notes on female aesthetics, everyday life and male well-being . (with Peter Roos, 1986)
• About women: Arthur Schopenhauer . (1986)
• Anna Segher's material book . (with Peter Roos, Darmstadt 1977)

Book contributions in :

• Gabriele Jähnert (Ed.): The gender of the sciences. On the history of women academics in the 19th and 20th centuries (2010)
• Gender dispute at the beginning of European modernity. The Querelles des Femmes (2004)
• The soul is not man, not woman. Stations of the Querelles des Femmes in Spain and Latin America from the 16th to the 18th century. In: Gisela Bock , Margarete Zimmermann (ed.): The European Querelle des Femmes. Gender debates since the 15th century , Querelles Jahrbuch Volume 2/1997

Movies

• The infamous Fély - On the trail of a painter named Rops (with Peter Roos, director: Ferdi Roth), WDR 1985
• To Santiago! A pilgrimage to the end of the world (with Peter Roos), first broadcast on WDR III 1982

literature

• Judith Hoffmann, Angelika Pumberger (Ed.): Gender - Order - Knowledge. Festschrift for Friederike Hassauer on the occasion of his 60th birthday , Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7069-0674-6
• Wolfram Aichinger et al .: The "Querelle des Femmes" in the romania. Studies in honor of Friederike Hassauer , ed. from the study group "Querelle" at the University of Vienna, Turia + Kant, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85132-341-6
• Crossing borders on the fringes of women's studies - a conversation with Friederike Hassauer . In: Die Philosophin , 2/1990, pp. 58–76

Web links

• Homepage Friederike Hassauer, University of Vienna
• Literature by and about Friederike Hassauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Friederike Hassauer at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pearl Divers review note
2. ↑ How to live as a couple in Germany , DIE ZEIT Nº 08/2004