Helmut Brall-Tuchel
Helmut Brall-Tuchel (born May 21, 1951 in Kerpen ) is professor of German language and literature in the Middle Ages at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .
Life
Helmut Brall-Tuchel grew up in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area . From 1970 to 1976 he studied German , philosophy and history at the Universities of Düsseldorf and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .
Brall-Tuchel passed his state examination in German and philosophy in 1976. In 1979 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1994 Brall-Tuchel received his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Düsseldorf . From 1976 to 1994 he was at the chair for older German studies at the University of Düsseldorf and between 1994 and 1995 as a substitute chair at the University of Bayreuth. Then he was a private lecturer in Düsseldorf. In 2000 Brall-Tuchel was appointed adjunct professor . Since 2015 he has been the Dean of Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Brall-Tuchel is the author of numerous books and articles on the literary and cultural history of the Middle Ages and the reception of the Middle Ages, curator of exhibitions on pilgrimage and on the subject of Heimat in literature, language and art. The specialist areas include figures and symbols of evil (such as dragons , devils , antichrist, etc.) in medieval literature; Magic, Superstition, and Apocalypse in Medieval Literary Discourse ; the perception of the foreign and the distant in the fiction and travel literature of the Middle Ages; Body, gender and sexuality in the context of medieval literature; Literature and law in medieval texts; History of medieval literature in the Rhineland and travelogues from the late Middle Ages.
He maintains professional collaborations with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel , the University of Wales , Universiteit Leiden , Università degli studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” in Italy, the Ege Üniversitesi in Izmir, Turkey and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Brall-Tuchel is also Vice President of the Institute for International Communication (IIK) Düsseldorf e. V. and Socrates / Erasmus representative for German studies.
Honors
- 1981: DRUPA Prize
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| SURNAME | Brall-Tuchel, Helmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tuchel, Helmut Brall- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist, professor for older German language and literature of the Middle Ages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kerpen |