Henrike Manuwald

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Henrike Manuwald (* 1980 ) is a German old Germanist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1998 in Düsseldorf , the daughter of classical philologist Bernd Manuwald and classical philologist Anke Manuwald, born Ullner, took her master's degree in 2003 at the University of Cologne ( German philology , art history , English philology ). After completing her doctorate in Cologne in 2006 ( Medialer Dialog. The 'Great Illuminated Manuscript' by Willehalm Wolfram von Eschenbach and its contexts ), Gesine Manuwald's sister became a research assistant in the sub-project A2 in 2007 (Middle Ages and Early Modern Times as a Culture of Visibility ? Folk-language picture cycles in handwriting and Print) of the SFB / FK 427 (media and cultural communication) at the University of Cologne. In 2008 she was appointed junior professor for older German literature and language at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Until April 2009 she was on leave for a graduate internship in the manuscript department of the J. Paul Getty Museum . After the successful interim evaluation in 2012, she was on leave from October 2012 to July 2013 for a research stay in Oxford (financed by a Feodor Lynen research grant for experienced scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ). After her habilitation ( Jesus and Landrecht. For reference to reality in the biblical epic ) in 2014 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, she has been professor of German medieval studies at the Georg August University of Göttingen since 2016 .

Her historical research focuses on German literature from the high and late Middle Ages (especially courtly novels and biblical epics) and mediaeval reception in the 19th century. Her theoretical and methodological focus is on cultural semiotics, historical semantics, fictionality, factuality, referentiality, translation (also intermedial), cultural appropriation, mediality, especially text and image and text and edition theory. The following prizes were awarded to her: Offermann-Hergarten-Preis (Cologne) for the dissertation (2009), Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (2011) and Albert-Bürklin-Preis of the Scientific Society Freiburg (2015). She has been a member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2012 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Media dialogue. The “Large Illuminated Manuscript” by Willehalm Wolfram von Eschenbach and its contexts (= Bibliotheca Germanica. Volume 52). Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8260-3 (also dissertation, Cologne 2006).

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personal data
SURNAME Manuwald, Henrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German old Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980