Julia Weitbrecht

Julia Weitbrecht (* 20th century ) is a German specialist in German studies and literature, as well as a university professor .

Live and act

Coming from the Schorndorf line of the Weitbrecht publishing family , Julia Weitbrecht studied Scandinavian Studies, Older German Literature and Language at the Humboldt University of Berlin and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1997 to 2003 . In the meantime she completed a European voluntary service at the language school in Kalø (Sproghøjskole på Kalø) in Denmark in 1999/2000 . In 2003 she completed her studies in Scandinavian Studies at Humboldt University with a Magistra Artium .

After a short post at the Institute for German Studies at the TU Dresden , she was taken on as a research assistant again at the HU Berlin from 2005 to 2012, where she meanwhile received a PhD in 2009 in the subject of older German literature. phil. PhD . In the winter semester of 2012, she took on a substitute professorship for older German literature and language at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and then worked again as a research assistant at the Gotha Research Library , at the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Research at the University of Göttingen and as a postdoctoral fellow of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

After that, Weitbrecht received a position as junior professor for German literature of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 2014 to 2020 and during this time took on a substitute professorship for older German literature at Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the 2018 winter semester -University of Frankfurt am Main . Finally, in March 2020, she accepted an appointment at the University of Cologne , where she took over the chair for Older German Language and Literature with a focus on literature of the Early and High Middle Ages in a European context as a full professor.

Weitbrecht's academic focus lies in the area of ​​religious text cultures of the Middle Ages, in particular hagiography and vision literature as well as journeys to the hereafter and collections of legends. Another focus of her work are studies of the mediality and materiality of medieval literature and historical narratology as well as the reception and transformation of antiquity.

Weitbrecht is a member of the German Association of Germanists , the International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature Studies and the Medievalist Association as well as the Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Gesellschaft e. V. and in the network "Cultural and Literary Animal Studies" of the University of Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts (selection)

• From the world: Journey and sanctification in legends and journeys to the hereafter of late antiquity and the Middle Ages , dissertation, Winter-Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5757-3
• Legendary Telling: Options and Models in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages . Together with Maximilian Benz, Andreas Hammer, Elke Koch, Nina Nowakowski, Stephanie Seidl and Johannes Traulsen, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-503-18800-0

Editions

• Asceticism and Identity in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times . Werner Röcke (Ed.), De Gruyter, Berlin Boston 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022837-3
• Transformation: a concept for exploring cultural change . Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5261-0
• Telling the ancient world: Narrative transformations from ancient times into the Middle Ages and early modern times . De Gruyter, Berlin Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-028612-0
• Between event and narrative: Conversion as a medium of self-description in the Middle Ages and early modern times , De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-046882-3
• The time of the last things: Patterns of interpretation and narrative forms of dealing with transience in the Middle Ages and early modern times , V & R Unipress GmbH, Kiel 2020, ISBN 978-3-8470-1097-5

Web links

• Vita on the pages of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne
• List of publications on regesta-imperii
• Literature by and about Julia Weitbrecht in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Short vita on the website of the University of Göttingen
2. ↑ Entry in the directory of Germanists