Hans Rudolf Velten

Hans Rudolf Velten (born November 4, 1961 ) is a German Medievalist .

Life

From 1981 to 1988 he studied German, history, political science, English and Romance studies at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Charleston and Naples (degrees: Magister Artium and Master of Arts). From 1990 to 1995 he was DAAD exchange lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Pisa . After completing his doctorate in 1994 at Goethe University with a dissertation on the autobiography of the 16th century. with Helmut Brackert , he was a postdoctoral fellow at the DFG graduate college “Education in the Early Modern Age” at the University of Osnabrück from 1996 to 1998 and then until 1999 a scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . From 1999 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant in the DFG Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of the Performative” in Berlin and as a project employee at the University of Potsdam . From 2002 to 2010 he was a research assistant in the DFG Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of the Performative” at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After his habilitation in 2009 with a thesis on body and action comedy in literature and theater of the pre-modern era (1200–1600) ( Venia Legendi : German literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period), he represented chairs and professorships at the Universities of Erlangen from 2010 to 2014 - Nuremberg , Saarbrücken , Cologne , Göttingen and Siegen . Since June 2014 he has been Professor of German Literature and Language of the Middle Ages at the University of Siegen .

His research areas are comedy and laughter in literature and culture of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, popular text and performance genres in the Middle Ages and the present, theater history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period (especially Hans Sachs), the early history of autobiography, textual and cultural theories and methods and premodern masculinity studies.

Fonts (selection)

• The self-written life. A study of the German autobiography in the 16th century . Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-8253-0286-5 .
• Scurrilitas. Laughter, humor and the body in literature and culture of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period . Tübingen 2017, ISBN 3-7720-8543-1 .
• as editor with Claudia Benthien : German studies as cultural studies . Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-55643-X .
• as editor with Werner Röcke : Lachgemeinschaften. Cultural stagings and social effects of laughter in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018236-X .
• as editor with Nathanael Busch: The literature of the Middle Ages in fantasy novels . Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 3-8253-6803-3 .
• as editor with Maren Lickhardt and Gregor Schuhe : Transgression and Subversion. Gender in the Picaresque Novel . Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 3-8376-4400-6 .

Web links

• uni-siegen.de