Karin Hoff

Karin Hoff (* 1963 in Bad Neuenahr ) is a German Scandinavian .

Life

She studied German , Scandinavian and history at the Universities of Bonn and Växjö (1989 master's degree ). After receiving her doctorate in 1993, she was lecturer for German literature at the University of Växjö from 1993 to 1994 . From 1994 to 2000 she was a university assistant at the Nordic Institute at Kiel University . After her habilitation in 2000, she was a senior research assistant at Kiel University from 2001 to 2004 . From 2004 to 2007 she taught as an associate professor at the Scandinavian Department of the University of Bonn . Since winter semester 2007 she has been director of the Scandinavian seminar at the University of Göttingen .

Her main research interests are Scandinavian literature of the 18th century and modern, Scandinavian drama and theater, cultural transfer and cross-border crossings.

Fonts (selection)

• Four authors are looking for a novel. Debate, dialogue, and poetic discourse in Swedish prose literature of the 1980s . Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-46688-9 .
• The discovery of the gaps. Literary projects of the Late Enlightenment between Scandinavia and Germany . Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-703-9 .
• as editor with Per Øhrgaard and Udo Schöning: Cultural triangular relationships. Aspects of cultural mediation between France, Germany and Denmark in the first half of the 19th century . Würzburg 2013, ISBN 3-8260-5038-X .
• as editor with Anna Sandberg and Udo Schöning: Literary Transnationality. Cultural triangular relations between Scandinavia, Germany and France in the 19th century . Würzburg 2015, ISBN 3-8260-5416-4 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Karin Hoff