Irene Erfen
Irene Erfen , née Irene Hänsch (* 1954 in Cologne ) is a German specialist in German and a private lecturer in older German language and literature at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .
Life
Erfen studied German , Catholic theology , Greek and philosophy from 1973 to 1979 at the University of Cologne and at the Free University of Berlin as a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk . There she was translated into 'De claris mulieribus' and ' Äsop ' in 1979 with the work of Heinrich Steinhöwel's translation comments . A PhD contribution to the history of translation .
From 1979 to 1990 she was a research assistant and university assistant at the Free University of Berlin, where in 1994 she worked on Mythologeme des Weiblichen. Observations from the Bestiary feminarum collected from novellas, letters and pictures of the late Middle Ages . Since 1990 she has been an academic senior councilor at the Institute for German Philology in Greifswald .
research
Irene Erfen is a specialist in the cultural marginal phases of the Middle Ages and in mediaeval reception. In 2002 she gave a complete introduction to her subject.
Fonts
- (under the name Irene Hänsch :) Heinrich Steinhöwel's translation comments in “De claris mulieribus” and “Aesop” . Kümmerle, Göppingen 1981, ISBN 3-87452-478-7 .
- Language game and laughter culture. Contributions to the history of literature and language: Rolf Bräuer on his 60th birthday. Edited by Angela Bader, Annemarie Eder, Irene Erfen, Ulrich Müller. Heinz, Stuttgart 1994 (= Stuttgart theses on German studies 300).
- Giovanni Boccaccio : De claris mulieribus / The great women . Latin / German. Selected, translated and commented by Irene Erfen, Peter Schmitt. Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-009341-4 .
- Treasures of Black Art. Cradle prints in Greifswald. Temmen, Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-86108-533-X .
- "... still owe the world to Tannhäuser." Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser or the war of singers at Wartburg. Edited by Irene Erfen in collaboration with the Wartburg Foundation Eisenach . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7954-1235-8 .
- Strangeness and Travel in the Middle Ages . Stuttgart 1997 (Ed. With Karl-Heinz Spieß), ISBN 3-515-06904-6 .
- Introduction to German Medieval Studies. Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-10343-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erfen, Irene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hänsch, Irene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German specialist in German and private lecturer for older German language and literature |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |