Ingrid Bennewitz

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Ingrid Bennewitz (born December 14, 1956 in Zell am See ) is an Austro-German Germanic Medievalist and has held the Chair of Medieval German Philology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg since 1995 . She was married to the medievalist Hans-Joachim Behr .

Life

Ingrid Bennewitz studied German, musicology and philosophy at the Universities of Salzburg and Münster / Westphalia as well as at the Mozarteum University of Music and Performing Arts, classical guitar , renaissance lute and early music performance . In 1983 she completed her studies with the Magister Artium examination (main subject musicology) at the University of Münster with distinction. A year later, she completed her doctorate in German studies at the University of Salzburg . Then she received a postdoc - Fellowship of the German Research Foundation . From 1985 to 1986 Bennewitz took on teaching positions with Professor Ulrich Müller at the University of Salzburg and with Professor Jan-Dirk Müller at the University of Hamburg . After representing a scientific assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , she was given regular teaching assignments. After completing her habilitation in 1993, she took on an assistant professorship at the University of Salzburg. In the following year, he represented a professorship at the University of Chemnitz-Zwickau. In 1995 she was offered a professorship at the University of Bamberg , where she has held the Chair of Medieval German Philology there.

Research priorities

Since 1979 Ingrid Bennewitz has been involved in the Salzburg Neidhart project under the direction of Professor Ulrich Müller and Professor Franz Viktor Spechtler , which was concluded in 2007 with the publication of the Salzburg Neidhart Edition (SNE). To this day Bennewitz is concerned with the medieval minstrel Neidhart , which, in addition to a large number of scientific publications, is also currently expressed in the conception of another project, which provides for the online edition of Neidhart's songs as part of the New Philology research area . In addition, her main areas of interest are gender research , the reception of mediaeval materials and works in modern times, and the teaching of medieval language and literature in schools. In addition, their research and teaching is characterized by a broad, interdisciplinary and international structure. Bennewitz held the office of managing director of the Center for Medieval Studies (ZEMAS) at the University of Bamberg on several occasions .

student

Gert Hübner , Andrea Grafetstätter and Andrea Schindler completed their habilitation with Ingrid Bennewitz .

Honors and prizes

Dissertation and habilitation thesis

  • Original and reception. Functional and historical studies of the Neidhart collection R. Diss. Masch. Göppingen 1987 (= GAG 437).
  • The FONT of the minstrel and the TEXT of the editor. Studies on the Minnesang tradition in Michael de Leone's “house book” (Minnesang manuscript E). Submitted as a habilitation thesis at the humanities faculty of the University of Salzburg. (not published)

Publications (selection)

  • Together with Ulrich Müller and Franz Viktor Spechtler: 'Neidhart-Lieder.' Texts and melodies of all manuscripts and prints. 3 volumes (= SNE: Salzburger Neidhart Edition).
  • Little chosen. Medieval female figures by Thomas Mann. In: Thomas Mann yearbook 25th ed. Thomas Sprecher, Ruprecht Wimmer and Hans Wißkirchen. Frankfurt / M. 2012, pp. 59-73.
  • About falconry dreams and wicked mothers: Nibelung mother-child relationships. In: Generations and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Dina De Rentiis and Ulrike Siewert. Bamberg 2009 (= Bamberg Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies 3), pp. 37–52.
  • Kriemhild and Kudrun: heroine epic instead of hero epic. In: 7th Pöchlarner hero song talk. Middle High German heroic poetry outside of the Nibelungen and Dietrich circles (Kudrun, Ortnit, Waltharius, Wolfdietriche). Edited by Klaus Zatloukal. Vienna 2003 (= Philologica Germanica 25), pp. 9-20.
  • Old "New" Philology? To the tradition of a discourse. In: ZfdPh 116 (1997), special issue: Philologie als Textwissenschaft. Ed. V. Helmut Tervooren and Horst Wenzel, pp. 46–61.

Editorships

  • Series of Bamberg Germanistic Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • Series Bamberg Studies on the Middle Ages (Lit-Verlag)
  • Bamberg series of interdisciplinary medieval studies
  • Mimasch-Mittelalter makes school series (together with Detlef Goller)

Memberships and functions (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bennewitz, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German German mediaevalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell am See