Henrike Lähnemann

Henrike Lähnemann (2013)

Henrike Lähnemann (* 1968 in Münster ) is a Germanist and professor for German Medieval Studies at the University of Oxford .

biography

Henrike Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian Johannes Lähnemann and the granddaughter of the medievalist Eleonore Dörner and the archaeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner . She was born in Münster and went to school in Lüneburg ( Johanneum Lüneburg ) and Nuremberg ( Neues Gymnasium Nürnberg ). She studied German literature , art history and theology at the Universities of Bamberg , Edinburgh , Berlin and Göttingen . After her doctorate on late medieval German didactic poetry at the University of Bamberg, she worked at the University of Tübingen , where it joins a study of the Book of Judith in German literature of the Middle Ages habilitated . Lähnemann spent a year as a Feodor Lynen scholarship holder at the University of Oxford and a semester as a visiting professor at the University of Zurich . Since 2006 she has held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University and heads the German Department of the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University. In 2015 she took over the Chair of German Medieval Studies at the University of Oxford, succeeding Nigel F. Palmer and Peter Ganz .

Lähnemanns current research deals with devotional texts from northern Germany , particularly manuscripts from the Monastery Medingen . In 2010 she was nominated by the DFG for inclusion in the AcademiaNet portal , a database with profiles of leading female scientists. From 2009-2014 she was chairwoman of the organization Women in German Studies . The author Angelika Overath , with whom she has had a productive working relationship for many years, dedicated her novel She revolves around .

Research projects

Medingen manuscripts
Sword of Judith Project
Renner from Hugo von Trimberg
Younger Sigenot

Publications

Together with Eva Schlotheuber and others: Networks of the nuns. Edition and indexing of the collection of letters from Lüne Monastery (approx. 1460-1555) . In: Wolfenbütteler digital editions. Wolfenbüttel 2016-, online .
Medingen nuns as writers between reform and reformation. In: B.-J. Kruse et al. a .: Rosaries and soul gardens. Education and piety in women's monasteries in Lower Saxony. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06813-0 , pp. 37–42, 319–320.
Text and textile. The parchments described in the figure ornaments In: C. Klack-Eitzen, W. Haase, T. Weissgraf: Heilige Röcke. Dresses for sculptures in Kloster Wienhausen. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2701-6 , pp. 71–78 (79–173).
So you do ok Devotional instructions in the Medinger manuscripts In: E. Brüggen, F.-J. Holznagel, S. Coxon, A. Suerbaum: Text and normativity in the German Middle Ages. de Gruyter, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028004-3 , pp. 437-453.
The risen one in dialogue with women. The apparitions of Christ in the prayer books of the Medingen monastery In: LM Koldau: Passion and Easter in the Lüneburg monasteries. Verlag Kloster Ebstorf, Ebstorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-926655-11-0 , pp. 105-134.
The Sword of Judith. Judith Studies Across the Disciplines. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK 2010, ISBN 978-1-906924-15-7 .
Per organa. Musical instruction in manuscripts of the Lüneburg monasteries In: H. Lähnemann, S. Linden: Poetry and Didax. Instructive speaking in German literature of the Middle Ages. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021898-5 , pp. 397-412, DOI: 10.1515 / 9783110218992.397 .
Edited together with Sandra Linden: Poetry and Didax. Instructive speaking in German literature of the Middle Ages. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021898-5 , DOI: 10.1515 / 9783110218992 .
Hystoria Judith: German Judith seals from the 12th to the 16th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-019011-3 , DOI: 10.1515 / 9783110925418 .
'At his bom wil ik stighen.' The iconography of the Wichmannsburger Antependium in the context of the Medinger manuscripts. In: Oxford German Studies 2005, ISSN 1745-9214 (electronic), Volume 34, pp. 19-46.