Laura Auteri

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Laura Auteri (born October 1953 in Genoa , Italy ) is an Italian Germanist and has been professor of German literature at the University of Palermo since 2005 .

Life

Laura Auteri studied German and Romance languages at the University of Genoa and the Free University of Berlin , there also with a DAAD scholarship. In 1976, at the University of Genoa, she defended a 'Tesi di laurea' from Giorgio Sichel on the figure of Till Eulenspiegel from the folk book to the fish species .

In 1975/76 she was an exchange assistant at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, then until 1981 lecturer for Italian at the Romance Department of the University of Bonn . From 1983 to 1990 Auteri taught German in the secondary school in Palermo . She then worked until 1999 as a research assistant at the Philosophical Faculty in Palermo. In 2000 she was appointed professor. Since 2005 she has been a full professor of German literature in Palermo and since 2010/11 she has been a partner in the consortium between the universities of Porto (coordination office) and Bremen for the international master’s course with double degree Erasmus Mundus - German Literature in the European Middle Ages (GLITEMA ).

Functions

  • 2005–2010 member of the IVG committee .
  • 2007–2010 director of the 'Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Linguistiche' at the University of Palermo.
  • 2010–2013 director of the 'Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Linguistiche' at the University of Palermo.
  • 2010–2015 First Vice President of IVG.
  • 2013–2015 After the abolition of the faculties in Italy, dean of the 'Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche'.
  • 2013–2015 member of the Academic Senate and Chair of the Didactics Commission.
  • 2015–2020 President of IVG.
  • from November 2015 Vice Rector for Teaching at the University of Palermo.

Publications

Early modern literature

  • Late humanist cultural pessimism using the example of the 'Lale book'. 1597. In: Daphnis. 21, 1992, pp. 245-268.
  • On the concept of ›patientia‹ in Johann Michael Moscherosch's Patientia politica sed christiana (1627–1662). In: Simpliciana. 14, 1992, pp. 145-162.
  • Il borghese imperfettibile. Pessimismo pedagogico nella letteratura tedesca tra Lutero e la Rivoluzione Francese. Udine, Campanotto, 1993 (Le carte tedesche, 5).
  • Animal symbolism in the German animal pose of the late 16th century. In: Simpliciana. 10, 1997, pp. 155-165.
  • Concepts of time and attempts to cope with time in the 16th century. Wickrams gold thread (1557) and Fortunatus (1509). In: Daphnis. 39, 2010, pp. 518-542.
  • Knowledge transfer and cognitive performance in G. Rollehagens Froschmeuseler. 1595. In: J.-D. Müller, P. Strohschneider, B. Kellner (Eds.) With the collaboration of T. Bulang and M. Waltenberger: Narrating and Episteme. Literature in the 16th century. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, pp. 329-344 (early modern period 136).
  • Graceful conversation. 1619. I Capricci del Bottaio. 1546, by Giovan Battista Gelli in the translation of Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen. In: The importance of reception literature for education and culture in the early modern period (1400–1750). Eds. Alfred Noe, Hans-Gert Roloff, Yearbook for International German Studies, Series A, Volume 109, P. Lang 2012, pp. 139–156.
  • Room for maneuver in this world: (In) availability of time and the ego in prose novels of the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Unavailability. Edited by I. Kasten (Paragrana. International Journal of Historical Anthropology.) 2012, 21, Issue 2, pp. 148–158.
  • Women's life in the 15th and 16th centuries. Italian marriage and woman treaties and their German reception. In: Alfred Noe, Hans-Gert Roloff (Hrsg.): The importance of reception literature for education and culture in the early modern period (1400-1750). Yearbook for International German Studies, Series A, Volume 116, Bern, Peter Lang 2014, pp. 173–194.

The 18th century: Christoph Martin Wieland; Goethe

  • The final metamorphosis of Peregrinus Proteus. Or, the saving death. In: Journal for German Studies. NF II, 1994, pp. 298-308.
  • The chance of togetherness. On Wieland's concept of love. In: Wieland studies. III, 1996, pp. 107-122.
  • Stillness and movement. On the poetic form at Wieland. Stuttgart 1998 (Stuttgart theses on German studies, 356).
  • National identity and cosmopolitanism with Ch. M. Wieland (1733-1813). In: Cairo German Studies. 17, 2007, pp. 73-84.
  • Striving for knowledge and humanity. On Wieland's attempt to amalgamate different concepts of religion in the Agathodemon. In: Walter Erhart, Lothar van Laak (eds.): Knowledge, storytelling, tradition: Wieland's late work. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, pp. 235-251.
  • Iconicità degli elementi nella “Notte Classica di Valpurga” from Faust II di Goethe. In: InVerbis. 3 (2) (2013), pp. 11-24.

Literature of the Stauferzeit

  • Dichotomies about death in Gottfried's Tristan. In: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies. 58, 2003, pp. 75-92.
  • Regine e cavalieri allo specchio. Gregorio, Nibelunghi, Parzival, Tristano. Roma, Carocci 2003 (Biblioteca medievale).

Alterity and literary 'national' stereotypes

  • Pictures of Arabs and Turks in the 16th century: Fortunatus (1509), Schöne Magelone (1527), Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587). In: L. Auteri, M. Cottone (ed.): German culture and Islam on the Mediterranean. Göppingen 2005, pp. 141–157.
  • The expansion of national identities in women's novels 1870-1920 using the example of Eugenie Marlitt and Elisabeth Werner. In: F. Gruzca (Hrsg.): Multiplicity and unity of German studies worldwide. Vol. 6, ed. v. A. Khattab et al., Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, pp. 83-90.
  • The German nation in romance novels between the establishment of an empire and the First World War. In: Florika Griessner, Adriana Vignazia (Ed.): 150 Years of Italy: Topics, Paths, Open Questions. Vienna, Praesens Verlag, 2014, pp. 270–282.

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personal data
SURNAME Auteri, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa