Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller (2010)

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller (* 1960 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss literary scholar , literary critic , author , translator and director . She researches and teaches at Indiana University Bloomington (USA) and at the University of Zurich .

Life

Keller studied German , Hispanic and sociology and received his doctorate in 1992 from the University of Zurich . Since 1995 she has worked as a performer and producer of scenic readings with literature and music from the Middle Ages . She has been producing audio media and radio plays since 2005. Her trilogy of the timeless (2011) creates a new approach to Heinrich Seuse , Elsbeth Stagel , Meister Eckhart , Zhuangzi , Hildegard von Bingen , Mechthild von Magdeburg , Hadewijch and Etty Hillesum . The volume The Hour of the Dog was awarded the Mystikpreis of the Theophrastus Foundation and nominated for the German Audio Book Prize. In addition to scientific and essayistic texts, she publishes a. a. in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , in Du and on Radio SRF 2 Kultur . From 2009 to 2019 Hildegard Elisabeth Keller was a member of the jurors team for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and, since September 2012, the critics team of the Swiss television program Literaturclub .

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller made the life and work of Alfonsina Storni known in the German-speaking world. In 2010, Keller co-produced a radio feature about Storni, translated Storni's prose work under the title Meine Seele has no sex into German for the first time and is also her biographer.

Keller has been working with audiovisual media since 2012 . In 2015 her first documentary , Whatever Comes Next , was shown at American film festivals and in Swiss cinemas.

Teaching

From 2001 to 2007 Hildegard Elisabeth Keller was assistant professor at the University of Zurich , and has been adjunct professor there since then. From 2008 to 2017 she taught German literature as a professor at Indiana University Bloomington (USA). She has held visiting professorships in Konya , Amsterdam , Munich and London .

Works

• Word and flesh. Body allegories, mystical spirituality and the poetry of St. Trudpert's Song of Songs on the horizon of incarnation. Dissertation. University of Zurich 1992. Lang, Bern a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-906750-23-X .
• (Ed.): In the word. Conversations with Margrith Schneider from 1983 to 2002. Sunnehus Foundation, Wildhaus 2002, ISBN 3-9522526-1-1 .
• My secret is mine. Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages. Peeters, Leuven 2000, ISBN 90-429-0871-8 .
• Jakob Ruf. Life, Work and Studies . NZZ Libro, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03823-415-9 .
• The Hour of the Dog (Trilogy of the Timeless 1). vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7281-3435-6 .
• The Camel and the Eye of the Needle (Trilogy of the Timeless 2). Zurich, vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7281-3436-3 .
• The ocean in a thimble (trilogy of the timeless 3). Zurich, vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7281-3437-0 .
• Related powers. In: Light-minded fluttering spirits. Cantata BWV 181 . Rudolf Lutz (conductor and harpsichord), Orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Miriam Feuersinger , Alex Potter , Julius Pfeiffer , Klaus Mertens . Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Hildegard Elisabeth Keller. DVD. Gallus Media, 2015.
• My soul has no gender. Stories, columns, provocations. Edited, translated and introduced by Hildegard Elisabeth Keller. With a foreword by Elke Heidenreich . Limmat Verlag , Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85791-717-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hildegard Elisabeth Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hildegard Elisabeth Keller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Radio feature about Alfonsina Storni
• Jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• Whatever Comes Next website
• Website by Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hansruedi Kugler: St.Gallen literature professor invents culinary-literary events: "Our life is an experiment". Accessed June 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on April 30, 2015.