Irmela von der Lühe

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Irmela von der Lühe in the exhibition she curated on Erika Mann in Monacensia

Irmela von der Lühe (born June 24, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German author , editor and former professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Irmela von der Lühe studied German, history and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Münster and Berlin. After the first state examination in 1971, she was a research assistant in the German language and literature department at the Free University of Berlin. In 1977 he received his doctorate . After the second state examination, she worked as a teacher and later as director of studies at the Fichtenberg-Oberschule in Berlin-Steglitz. In 1993 she completed her habilitation . After teaching in Berlin and Göttingen, she was a professor at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin from October 1, 2004 until her retirement in 2012.

Act

Von der Lühes research focuses on literature from the 18th to the 20th century, modern writers, German-Jewish literature in the 20th century, exile literature as well as the Holocaust and literature. In the area of Thomas Mann and the Mann family , her focus is Erika Mann , whose work she publishes together with Uwe Naumann and about whom she has written a biography. In 2019 von der Lühe curated the first solo exhibition on Erika Mann in the Munich Monacensia under the title Erika Mann. Cabaret artist. War reporter. Political speaker.

Publications (selection)

  • Nature and Imitation in Aesthetic Theory between Enlightenment and Sturm und Drang - Investigations on Batteux Reception in Germany . (Treatises on art, music and literature, vol. 283.) Bonn 1979
  • Erika Mann: A biography . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, 5th edition 2001, ISBN 3-596-12598-7
  • Erika Mann: A life story . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-62535-0
  • “We weren't really at home in Germany either”: Jewish remigration after 1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0312-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the web link of Freie Universität Berlin
  2. ↑ Irmela von der Lühe , rowohlt.de, accessed on May 27, 2013
  3. ↑ Erika Mann. Cabaret artist - war reporter - political speaker , muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de, accessed on October 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lühe, Irmela von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin