Heike Gfrereis

Heike Gfrereis

Heike Gfrereis (born February 26, 1968 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) is a German literary scholar and curator .

Life

Heike Gfrereis studied German language and literature and art history in Stuttgart, Tübingen and Marburg from 1988 to 1992 and received her doctorate in 1994 from the University of Stuttgart under Heinz Schlaffer (summa cum laude). From 1994 to 1999 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the University of Stuttgart, and from 1999 to 2001 project manager at the architecture and design office Atelier Lohrer. Since November 2001, Gfrereis has been head of the museum department at the German Literature Archive in Marbach and responsible for the exhibitions, publications and educational programs of the Modern Literature Museum and the Schiller National Museum (from January 2017 to December 2018 she was released for research and exhibition projects at her own request). Since 2013 she has held an honorary professorship at the University of Stuttgart.

Her main research interests are exhibition theory and practice, literary communication, material studies, aesthetic experience, museum research and cultural management . She is »one of the most renowned curators of literary exhibitions«.

For more than two decades, Gfrereis has been dealing with the visible, exhibitable and tangible phenomena of literature, combining scientific methods with artistic and didactic processes. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht wrote about her: »She is an internationally respected scholar in the field of German literature since the Classical and Romantic periods and has developed the aesthetic and intellectual style of the Marbach museums into a successful, internationally unique form, and literary studies to a large audience opens up. "

In 2019 she received for her »artistic, orderly thinking as curator of the exhibition fontane.200 / author in the Museum Neuruppin, which shows the spiritual closeness to architecture and to Karl Friedrich Schinkel in its spatial design«, the Schinkel Prize of the Karl Friedrich Schinkel Schinkel Society.

Exhibitions

• Höldelin, Celan and the Languages ​​of Poetry (planned March 19 - November 28, 2020, due to Covid-19 May 23, 2020 - August 1, 2021, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Hegel and his friends. Poetry in Philosophy (October 6, 2019– February 15, 2020, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Hands on! Learn to write, make poetry (September 29, 2019– March 1, 2020, Museum of Modern Literature).
• #LiteratureMoves Laughter. Cabaret (May 19 - September 15, 2019, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Fontane200 / Author (March 30 - December 30, 2019, Museum Neuruppin, Brandenburg Society for Culture and History).
• Into the blue! Nature in Literature (March 29 - October 4, 2018, Literaturhaus Munich , from July 4, 2019 in the Buddenbrookhaus / Mann-Zentrum Lübeck, artistic advice: Judith Schalansky ).
• Wanted: Wendelin Niedlich (Literaturhaus Stuttgart, opening: December 21, 2017).
• Michael Kruger. Unexpected reunion - read cards (December 6, 2016– April 2, 2017, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Focal points: Interventions in the soul / Sigmund Freud (November 3, 2016– January 10, 2017, Literaturmuseum der Moderne).
• Sibylle Lewitscharoff: In the labyrinth of circles (7/7 - 28 November 2016, Museum of Modern Literature, with Sibylle Lewitscharoff).
• Harry Graf Kessler - A stroll through the modern age (May 20 - September 25, 2016, Brandenburger Tor Foundation).
• Hanns Zischler: Errata. Second-hand errors (February 29th – June 3rd, 2016, together with Hanns Zischler , Museum of Modern Literature).
• The Moving Book (November 7, 2015– October 9, 2016, Museum of Modern Literature, advice from Claus Pias ).
• Presence of mind. 50 years of the Johann Heinrich Merck and Sigmund Freud Prize (October 29, 2015– January 1, 2016, with Bernd Busch, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, in cooperation with the German Academy for Language and Poetry ).
• Péter Nádas: Gloomy idyll. Consolation of German Romanticism (October 5, 2015– February 20, 2016. Museum of Modern Literature).
• A Nixle emma Bixle , reading garden café in the Schiller National Museum, which includes Mörike's texts and legacy (July 2015 to February 2016).
• The soul (since June 7, 2015, permanent exhibition, Museum of Modern Literature).
• The original! 10 years of the German Book Prize (from January 23, 2015, in Marbach, Frankfurt, Berlin and others, together with Dorothee Werner, in cooperation with the German Book Trade Association ).
• Mörike's things (since November 10, 2014, Museum of Modern Literature and Schiller National Museum).
• The value of the original (November 3, 2014 - April 12, 2015, for example with Ulrich Raulff , Museum of Modern Literature, advice from Gottfried Boehm ).
• Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin (September 17, 2014 - January 12, 2015), Museum of Modern Literature, January 17 – February 1, 2015, KunstPalais Badenweiler.
• Kafka's Trial 2014. Original and Metamorphosis (May 23rd – June 30th, 2014, Prague, Old Town Hall, jointly with the Goethe-Institut and the Literaturhaus Stuttgart, February 13th – 30th, 2015, Buddenbrookhaus Lübeck).
• Traveling while on the move (May 15 – October 5, 2014, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Around 1950. Alfred Andersch: Photo strips (January 30– June 1, 2014, Literaturmuseum der Moderne, November 27, 2014– February 20, 2015, Literarisches Colloqium Berlin, together with Annette Korolnik).
• The whole process (November 7, 2013– February 9, 2014, Literaturmuseum der Moderne, together with Friederike Knüpling, takeover by Martin-Gropius-Bau in summer 2017).
• Literature and War (October 16, 2013– March 30, 2014, Museum of Modern Literature).
• The day on which Siegfried Unseld became a publisher (July 26th – November 24th 2013, Museum of Modern Literature).
• The correspondence between Albert Hofmann and Ernst Jünger 1947 to 1997 (July 16 - October 20, 2013, Literaturmuseum der Moderne).
• Object digital. Friedrich Kittler's Speicher (June 13-22, 2013, Museum of Modern Literature).
• 1913: Find in the German Literature Archive in Marbach (3 May - 6 June 2013, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen , together with Diethard Keppler).
• Kafka's Mice (July 9th - 7th, 2013, Museum of Modern Literature)
• Note boxes. Machines of the imagination (4 March – 15 September 2013, Museum of Modern Literature).
• »You always say we're having a conversation.« Pre-viewing at Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler (28.2. – 2. June 2013, Literature Museum der Moderne, partly with Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler ).
• Hashish and Kabbalah. Gershom Scholem, Siegfried Unseld and the work of Walter Benjamin (December 13, 2012– March 4, 2013, Literaturmuseum der Moderne, together with Liliane Weissberg ).
• Forbidden Writing (September 27, 2012– January 27, 2013, Museum of Modern Literature).
• 1926. A year in my head (March 4th – August 26th, 2012, Museum of Modern Literature, together with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ).
• Shared mail. Franz Kafka to Grete Bloch (October 5, 2011– January 29, 2012, Museum of Modern Literature, advice: Hans-Gerd Koch).
• I love you! (September 20, 2011– January 29, 2012, Museum of Modern Literature, advice: Michael Lentz).
• Günter Grass: Read up on Peter Rühmkorf (June 6–25, 2011, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Letters to Ottla. By Franz Kafka and others (September 1, 6-11, 2011, Museum of Modern Literature, advice: Hans-Gerd Koch and Klaus Wagenbach ).
• Seven times seven inevitable things (August 5–28 , 2011, Museum of Modern Literature, advice: Peter Sloterdijk ).
• Be a robber! Schiller at the gallery (July 3-5, 2011, with Diethard Keppler, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen).
• Ernst Jünger. Workers on the Abyss (November 7, 2010– March 27, 2011, Museum of Modern Literature).
• How do you exhibit literature? Seven positions on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (November 8th – 1st, 2010, part »SatzBauKunst«, together with Diethard Keppler, Goethe-Haus Frankfurt).
• Cortázar, Onetti, Paz. Suhrkamp's Great South (June 11th – October 3rd, 2010, Museum of Modern Literature).
• German spirit. An American Dream (October 7, 5–3, 2010, Museum of Modern Literature, with Ernst Osterkamp and David Wellbery ).
• Georg Picht's Plato Archive (October 2nd – November 1st 2010, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Hedwig and Samuel Fischer's photo albums (April 18-22, 2010, Passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• Three approaches to the creative process (January 28 - April 18, 2010, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Thinking by hand. Max Bense on the 100th (January 20 - February 12, 2010, Passage, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, and February 4, 2010, Stuttgart City Hall ).
• Permanent exhibition in the Schiller National Museum (since November 9, 2009).
• Conversation with the dead from the archive. Heinrich von Kleist and Ulrike Meinhoff (September 27–4 , 2009, passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• Autopsy Schiller. A literary investigation (October 1-3, 2009, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Nelly Sachs. Last Things from Stockholm (January 21 - April 1, 2009, Passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• How many thoughts can there be on one page? Two pieces by Jean Paul and Laurence Sterne (December 8, 2008– January 24, 2009, Passage, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach).
• Wandering shadows. WG Sebalds Unterwelt (September 26, 2008– February 1, 2009, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Nine early collages by Ror Wolf (July 15 – September 12, 2008, Passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• Point on Kafka's 125th birthday (June 3 to July 18, 2008, Passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• A Scardanelli manuscript that came in the mail and other coincidences (May 6th – May 30th, 2008, Passage, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach).
• Walter benjamin. Berlin childhood around nineteen hundred. The Stefan manuscript (August 8th – 31st, 2008, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Stefan Zweig's Impatience of the Heart (April 8th – April 30th, 2008, Passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• Peter Handke's diaries (February 1 – April 1, 2008, passage, German Literature Archive Marbach).
• Robert Gernhardt's Brunnen-Hefte (November 6, 2007– February 24, 2008, Literaturmuseum der Moderne, April 4 – June 1, 2008 in the Literaturhaus Frankfurt a. M., advice from Almut Gehebe-Gernhardt, Kristina Maidt-Zinke, Thomas Steinfeld ) .
• Sigrid Löffler's Marbach Decalogue (November 11, 2006– January 28, 2007, Museum of Modern Literature).
• A neverending story (June 21-21, 2007, Museum of Modern Literature).
• In the ghost trap. A German Pantheon (November 11, 2006– March 18, 2007, Schiller National Museum).
• Wagenbach's nine muses (June 6th – July 27th, 2006, Museum of Modern Literature).
• Permanent exhibition Museum of Modern Literature (opened June 6, 2006).
• Conceptual advice and realization of the anniversary exhibition on Eduard Mörike and Friedrich Schiller in the Schiller National Museum (2004/5).
• 100 Years of Architecture for Literature (November 9, 2003– February 1, 2004, Schiller National Museum).
• Hermann Hesse. Snapshots (Brussels, Baden-Württemberg State Representation, October 13th – December 13th, 2002).
• Hermann Hesse. This side of the glass bead game (June 23– October 27, 2002, Schiller National Museum, February 13– April 4, 2004, Museum of Literature on the Upper Rhine).
• Mörike on the shelf (September 4 to November 15, 1999, Städtisches Museum Ludwigsburg ).
• Reading Kafka (Summer 1998, University of Stuttgart).
• Views from Württemberg (summer 1991, Städtisches Museum Ludwigsburg ).

Publications (selection)

Monographs, anthologies, editions, catalogs

• Hölderlin, Celan and the languages ​​of poetry , author, Marbach aN 2020.
• Hands on! Learn to write, make poetry , ed. And partial author, Marbach aN 2019.
• Laugh. Kabaret , ed. And partial author, Marbach aN 2019.
• fontane200 / author. The Pictures-Words-Voices-Reader , Ed. And Teilverf., Berlin 2019.
• Into the blue! Nature in literature , ed. And partial author, Munich 2018.
• Second hand error , zs. with Hanns Zischler, Marbach aN 2016.
• The moving book , zs. with Claus Pias u. a., Marbach aN 2015.
• Museum and exhibition. Concepts of theory and practice , ed. Zs. with Thomas Thiemeyer and Bernhard Tschofen, Göttingen 2015, in it »Archive«, pp. 14–33.
• The soul , ed. Zs. with Ulrich Raulff, Marbach aN 2015, therein "The Exhibition", pp. 66–363.
• The value of the original , e.g. with Ulrich Raulff, Marbach aN 2014.
• Photos from on the way , ed. And partial author, Marbach aN 2014.
• Around 1950. Alfred Andersch: Photo strips, Marbach aN 2014.
• Literature and War , Teilverf., Marbach aN 2013.
• The correspondence between Albert Hofmann and Ernst Jünger 1947 to 1997. Ed. Zs. with Johannes Kempf, Friederike Knüpling, Dietmar Jaegle and Ellen Strittmatter, Marbach aN 2013.
• Kafkas Mäuse , Marbach aN 2013 ( https://independent.academia.edu/HeikeGfrereis ).
• Note boxes. Machines of the imagination , ed. Zs. with Ellen Strittmatter and Teilverf., Marbach aN 2013.
• Hermann Hesse's first photo album. 1903–1916 , ed., Marbach aN 2012.
• Prohibited writing , ed. And partial author, Marbach aN 2012.
• I love you! , Teilverf., Marbach aN 2011, pp. 55–267.
• Seven times seven inevitable things , Teilverf., Marbach aN 2011, pp. 74–155.
• Ernst Jünger. Workers on the Abyss , Ed. And Teilverf., Marbach aN 2010.
• Byways of writing , Teilverf. zs. with Ellen Strittmatter, Marbach aN 2010, pp. 64–101.
• Poet fame and immortality , ed., 2010 ( https://independent.academia.edu / HeikeGfrereis).
• Under Parnassus. The permanent exhibition in the Schiller National Museum , ed. Zs. with Ulrich Raulff and Teilverf., Marbach aN 2009.
• Let Interpretation , ed., 2009 ( https://independent.academia.edu/HeikeGfrereis ).
• Autopsy Schiller. A literary investigation , Marbach aN 2009.
• Wandering shadows. WG Sebalds Unterwelt , ed. Zs. with Ulrich von Bülow and Ellen Strittmatter and Teilverf., Marbach aN 2008.
• On thinking with the index finger , ed. Zs. with Marcel Lepper , Göttingen 2007.
• In the ghost trap. Photos from the archive from three centuries , zs. with Ulrich Raulff and Ellen Strittmatter, Marbach aN 2006.
• Lexicon Literature , Ed. And Teilverf., Stuttgart 2005, Russian translation 2009.
• Gods plans & mouse shops. Schiller 1759-1805 , ed. Zs. with Ulrich Raulff, Marbach aN 2005.
• Mörike and the Arts , ed. Zs. with Ulrich Ott, Marbach 2004.
• The magazine magazine. Blossom harvest on cue , ed. Zs. with Dietmar Jaegle, Marbach aN 2003.
• Hermann Hesse. This side of the glass bead game , Marbach aN 2002.
• Lexicon of basic literary terms , ed. And partial author, Stuttgart 1999.
• Mörike on the shelf , Städtisches Museum Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg 1999.
• Generated meanings. The literary work around 1800 , Würzburg 1996 (dissertation 1994).

Essays

• “Bad girls go anywhere. Fontane read 1985 «, in: Theodor Fontane, text + kritik 2, 2019, pp. 98–100.
• “The phosphorus of things. An eulogy «, in: Judith Schalansky meets Wilhelm Raabe, ed. by Hubert Winkels, Göttingen 2019, pp. 15–26.
• »The paper and text worker«, conversation about the Fontane exhibition in Neuruppin with Peer Trilcke, in: Museum Blätter . Announcements from the Brandenburg Museum Association 34 , 2019, pp. 24–29
• »Exhibit / understand / see Kafka's fork«, in: The Objectivity of the World. Festschrift for Günter Figal for the 70th, ed. by Antonia Egel / David Espinet / Tobias Keiling / Bernhard Zimmermann, Tübingen 2019. pp. 151–163.
• “Who speaks in a literature exhibition? Reflections on the dialogic scope of possibilities of a genre, initiated by Helmut Neundlinger «, in: Klaus Kastberger, Stefan Maurer, Christian Neuhuber (eds.), Schauplatz Archiv. Object, narrative, performance, Berlin 2019, pp. 31–39.
• »Preverbal and Postmodern? The First World War in Literature «, in: des Deutschen Kulturrats , March 2018.
• »The magic is in the detail«, conversation with Jan Söffner about Theodor Fontane for the magazine of the Federal Cultural Foundation , # 31 Land (September 2018)
• “Money or Spirit. Why people rarely save in literature «, in: Robert Muschalla (Ed.), Mensch und Geld, Deutsches Historisches Museum 2018.

• »Flying sentences. Christoph Ransmayr's poetry in prose ", in: Doren Wohlleben (Ed.), Christoph Ransmayr, TEXT + KRITIK, Göttingen 2017. •" Unfinished texts. A philosophical-philological problem between arabesque and fragment «, in: Christine Hehle, Hanna Delf von Wolzüge (eds.), Formen ins Offene. The productivity of the fragmentary, Berlin 2017.

• “The first things come later. Dada in the Museum "in: Ursula Amrein and Christa Baumberger (eds.), Dada: Performance & Program, Zurich 2016.
• “Paper places. About material forms of inspiration «, in: Die Raumzeitlichkeit der Muße, by Günter Figal, Hans Hubert and Thomas Klinkert, Tübingen 2016, pp. 309–337.
• “Clockwork Orange. Friedrich Kittler's Mond-Farben-Kartei «, in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 1/2016, pp. 97-106.
• "Exhibition", in: Marcel Lepper and Ulrich Raulff (eds.), Handbuch Archiv, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 225–235.
• »Writing as dreams. The pasting in Ernst Jünger's diaries and manuscripts «, in: Ernst-Jünger-Studien 7: Freiheit (2015), edited by Georg Knapp, Tübingen 2015, pp. 37–72.
• “What do you read when you see? Reflections on the relationship between literature, material, original and exhibition «in: Britta Hochkirchen and Elke Kollar (Eds.), Materialität und Veranstaltungen, Bielefeld 2015, pp. 43–51.
• »To the exhibition«, in Literature and War, Marbach aN 2013, pp. 47–70.
• “The third dimension. Textuality exhibited by Ernst Jünger and WG Sebald «, zs. with Ellen Strittmatter, in: Katerina Kroucheva and Barbara Scharff (eds.)., Kafkas Gabel. Interdisciplinary and intermedial aspects of literary communication, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 25–52.
• "Do not read. The disenchantment of an idea «, in: Günter Figal (Ed.), Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Tübingen 2013, pp. 5-14.
• “Goethe's Wilhelm Meister read with his feet”, 2013 ( https://www.academia.edu/10034258/Goethes_Wilhelm_Meister_mit_den_Füßen_gelesen ).
• “Ghost machines. Poetic albums in the German Literature Archive «, in: Anke Kramer / Annegret Pelz (eds.), Organizational form narrative coherence, Göttingen 2013, pp. 74–88.
• »Literature and Space. About three-dimensionality as a category of aesthetic experience «, in: Günter Figal (Ed.), Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Tübingen 2012, pp. 161–170.
• “The face of poetry. The new permanent exhibition in the Schiller National Museum «, in: Hellmut Th. Seemann / Thorsten Valk (ed.), Exhibiting literature. Museum productions of the Weimar Classic, Yearbook of the Weimar Classic Foundation, Göttingen 2012, pp. 269–282.
• »Working on the inconspicuous exhibit. A theory of the literary exhibition in the practice of a literary museum «, in: Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken / Sonja Vandenrath (eds.), Word-Spaces, Sign-Change, Eye-Poetry. On the theory and practice of literary exhibitions, Göttingen 2012, pp. 265–282.
• »Exhibiting literature as a form of knowledge«, zs. with Ulrich Raulff, in: Word-Spaces, Character-Change, Eye-Poetry, in: ibid., pp. 101-108.
• “Undetected incorporation. Max Kommerell and the Russian Formalism «, in: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society 54 (2010), pp. 363–377.
• “Body trace and timestamp. Exile as a topic in the Museum of Modern Literature «, zs. with Verena Staack, in: Lutz Winckler (Ed.), Jahrbuch für Exilforschung (2010), pp. 47–66.
• "Sebald read from the estate", in: Ulrich von Bülow / Heike Gfrereis / Ellen Strittmatter (eds.), Wandering shadows. WG Sebalds Unterwelt, Marbach aN 2008, pp. 226-234.
• “Nothing but dirty fingers. Should one exhibit literature? ”, In: Heike Gfrereis / Marcel Lepper (eds.), Vom Denk mit dem Indexefinger, Göttingen 2007, pp. 81–88.
• “Kobold in the realm of ghosts. The manuscript of Aby Warburg's essay on American Chap Books ", in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (2007), no. 4, pp. 97–112.
• “Corneille's wrinkles. Nonverbal ways of constructing authorship in letters «, in: Detlev Schöttker (Ed.), Addressee: Nachwelt. Writing and survival in letters, Munich 2007, pp. 71–86.
• »The Room of Return«, in: Thoughts and Showpieces. Das Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach aN 2006, pp. 29–39.
• “Double bind. Walter Benjamin's way of writing «, in: Detlev Schöttker (Ed.), Walter Benjamin. Writing Images Thinking, Frankfurt a. M. 2004, pp. 186-193.
• “Praise to the shadow, keep the fire. User considerations on two types of museums for literature «, in: 100 years of architecture for literature, Marbach aN 2003, pp. 41–65.
• “The real thing is invisible anyway. About literary exhibitions «, zs. with Roland S. Kamzelak , in: Jahrbuch für Kulturmanagement 6 (2002), pp. 37–61.
• “The reader as an author turned backwards. Sentimentalische Lektüren um 1800 ”, in: Harald Tausch (Ed.), Historicism and Modernism, Würzburg 1996, pp. 67–79.
• “Initiation into the ordinary. Goethe's ›Venetianische Epigramme‹ «, in: Goethe-Jahrbuch 110 (1993), pp. 272–242.
• "A note on a sentence by Jean Paul", in: Yearbook of the Jean Paul Society (1992), pp. 332–340.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Staff website at the University of Stuttgart
2. ↑ Satellite: Dr. Heike Gfrereis | LIVING RESEARCH | University of Stuttgart. Retrieved January 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Federal Cultural Foundation - fontane.200. Retrieved August 30, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Communicator Prize . In: Stifterverband . October 19, 2015 ( stifterverband.org [accessed August 12, 2017]).
5. ↑ Press release on the 2019 Schinkel Award (PDF) Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Gesellschaft eV, accessed on July 13, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Kulturstiftung des Bundes - 6.57 million euros for new projects by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 .